Scripture states The Father raised Jesus from the dead. Scripture also testifies that Jesus Himself states He will raise Himself out from among the dead. Scripture also records that the Holy Spirit will raise Jesus from the dead. No one else is mentioned as being able to raise Jesus from the dead except Himself, the Father and the Holy Spirit. Only the living God can raise physically dead people out from their spiritual state in Hades and Paradise as souls/spirits and reunite them with their physical bodies. People do not raise themselves from the dead; only the Creator has that kind of Power.

It is blasphemy (punishable by death) to claim one is God & from one's own authority & power to forgive sins and raise the dead & heal others. God is the One Who does this; we don't have that within ourselves to do these things.

Heb 11:17-19

God the Father raised Jesus out from among the rest of the dead & it was prophesied by the prophets beforehand, predicting & verifying this future reality (Job 19:23-27; Ps 15:9-11; 40:1-3; Dan 12:2; Acts 2:24, 32; 3:15, 26; 4:10; 5:30; 10:40; 13:30, 33, 34, 37; 17:31; Rom. 4:24; 6:4; 10:9; 1 Cor. 6:14; Gal. 1:1; Eph 1:17,20; Col. 2:12; I Pet 1:21) & will raise other people from the dead.

Gal 1:1 From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency) but by Jesus Christ & GOD THE FATHER Who raised Him out from among the dead.

Hosea 6:2 "After two days will He revive us; in the third day He will raise us up."

Jesus raised Himself out from among the rest of the dead:

John 10:17,18 This is why the Father loves Me – because I lay down My life, so that I may take it back again. 18 No one takes it away from Me, but I lay it down of My own free will. I have the authority to lay it down & I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

John 2:18,19 On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?” Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple & in three days I will raise it up again."

Heb 7:15-17 And this point is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, One who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the POWER OF AN INDESTRUCTABLE LIFE. For it is testified: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Rev 1:16-18 He had seven stars in His right hand. Out of His mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. And when I saw Him, I did fall at His feet as dead & He placed His right hand upon me, saying to me, 'Be not afraid; I AM--the First & the Last & He who IS LIVING & I did become dead &, lo, I AM LIVING to the ages of the ages [forevermore]. Amen! And I have the keys of the hades & of the death.

The Father commanded the Son to die for the remission of sins, conquer death & deliver believing people in Him from the power of death & raise them. The Son submitted His free will to the Father's will & willingly died & authoritatively raised Himself from the dead.

He will also raise others from the dead (Lk 7:11-17; Jn 5:21; I Thess 4:16), as well as the Father (Ezek 37:13) and as well the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:11).

John 11:24-26 Martha replied, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25Jesus said to her, “I AM the resurrection & the life. Anyone who believes in Me WILL LIVE, EVEN AFTER DYING. And everyone who lives & believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Isaiah 26:19 Your dead WILL LIVE; THEIR BODIES WILL RISE. Here again, as Jesus affirmed in the verses above, that there is a distinction between the person still existing, even though they have physically died AND their body that has died, from which they departed (James 2:26). The person still exists, even though they have died & departed from their bodies. The person's body rises out of the grave & reunites with the person's own soul & spirit.

Matt 12:39-41 Jesus replied, “A wicked & adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days & three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days & three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation & condemn it; for they REPENTED at the preaching of Jonah & now One greater than Jonah is here.

The Scripture prophetically predicts that Jesus said He will rise up & be the Judge of all the earth.

Zeph 3:5-8 Jehovah is righteous within her; He will do no injustice. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He does not fail. But the unjust knows no shame. "I have cut off nations; their corner towers are in ruins. I have made their streets desolate, With no one passing by; their cities are laid waste, without a man, without an inhabitant. I said, 'Surely you will revere Me, accept instruction.' So her dwelling will not be cut off according to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they were eager to corrupt all their deeds. Wherefore expect me, saith Jehovah, in the day of My resurrection ('the day that I rise') that is to come, for My judgment is to assemble the Gentiles & to gather the kingdoms & to pour upon them My indignation, all My fierce anger; for with the fire of My jealousy shall all the earth be devoured. (see Ps 69:24; 79:6; Jer 6:11; 10:25; 14:16; Ezek 21:31; Rev 16:1. According to the remark of the Masorah the only verse of the OT, in which all the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, inclusive of the five finals, occur.)

The LXX: "until the day of my rising up for testimony." Jerome, "In die resurrectionis meae in futurum." The Fathers interpreted this of the times of Messiah - of Christ's resurrection from the dead; of His rising up to divide the spoil (Gen 49:9, 27. See also Augustine, 'De Civil.,' 18:33; Eusebius, 'Dem. Ev.,' 2:17)

Zech 12:10: "They shall LOOK upon Me whom they have pierced..."

Ps 110:1 gives special insight concerning Jesus' ascension after the resurrection. "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies thy footstool." Literally, this reads: "Jehovah said unto Adonai," using two names that applied to God alone--as the Father is apparently speaking directly to the Son. This particular verse is applied to Christ no less than 5X in the NT.

Even the Holy Spirit is said to have raised Him (Romans 8:11; I Pet 3:14-22). So, the act of raising Jesus from the dead was not the operation merely of one Person within the Triune God, but was a cooperative act done by the power of the Divine substance, essence, nature. There is one God BY NATURE.

Scripture states The Father raised Jesus from the dead. Scripture also testifies that Jesus Himself states He will raise Himself out from among the dead. Scripture also records that the Holy Spirit will raise Jesus from the dead.

God the Father raised Jesus out from among the rest of the dead & it was prophesied by the prophets beforehand, predicting & verifying this future reality (Job 19:23-27; Ps 15:9-11; 40:1-3; Dan 12:2; Acts 2:24, 32; 3:15, 26; 4:10; 5:30; 10:40; 13:30, 33, 34, 37; 17:31; Rom. 4:24; 6:4; 10:9; 1 Cor. 6:14; Gal. 1:1; Eph 1:17,20; Col. 2:12; I Pet 1:21) & will raise other people from the dead.

The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus, and Jesus promised to stay with it until the end of the world.

The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus, and Jesus promised to stay with it until the end of the world.

If Jesus didn't foud the Catholic Church, who did?

Scripture states The Father raised Jesus from the dead. Scripture also testifies that Jesus Himself states He will raise Himself out from among the dead. Scripture also records that the Holy Spirit will raise Jesus from the dead. No one else is mentioned as being able to raise Jesus from the dead except Himself, the Father and the Holy Spirit. Only the living God can raise physically dead people out from their spiritual state in Hades and Paradise as souls/spirits and reunite them with their physical bodies. People do not raise themselves from the dead; only the Creator has that kind of Power.

It is blasphemy (punishable by death) to claim one is God & from one's own authority & power to forgive sins and raise the dead & heal others. God is the One Who does this; we don't have that within ourselves to do these things.

Heb 11:17-19

God the Father raised Jesus out from among the rest of the dead & it was prophesied by the prophets beforehand, predicting & verifying this future reality (Job 19:23-27; Ps 15:9-11; 40:1-3; Dan 12:2; Acts 2:24, 32; 3:15, 26; 4:10; 5:30; 10:40; 13:30, 33, 34, 37; 17:31; Rom. 4:24; 6:4; 10:9; 1 Cor. 6:14; Gal. 1:1; Eph 1:17,20; Col. 2:12; I Pet 1:21) & will raise other people from the dead.

Gal 1:1 From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency) but by Jesus Christ & GOD THE FATHER Who raised Him out from among the dead.

Hosea 6:2 "After two days will He revive us; in the third day He will raise us up."

Jesus raised Himself out from among the rest of the dead:

John 10:17,18 This is why the Father loves Me – because I lay down My life, so that I may take it back again. 18 No one takes it away from Me, but I lay it down of My own free will. I have the authority to lay it down & I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

John 2:18,19 On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?” Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple & in three days I will raise it up again."

Heb 7:15-17 And this point is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, One who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the POWER OF AN INDESTRUCTABLE LIFE. For it is testified: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Rev 1:16-18 He had seven stars in His right hand. Out of His mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. And when I saw Him, I did fall at His feet as dead & He placed His right hand upon me, saying to me, 'Be not afraid; I AM--the First & the Last & He who IS LIVING & I did become dead &, lo, I AM LIVING to the ages of the ages [forevermore]. Amen! And I have the keys of the hades & of the death.

The Father commanded the Son to die for the remission of sins, conquer death & deliver believing people in Him from the power of death & raise them. The Son submitted His free will to the Father's will & willingly died & authoritatively raised Himself from the dead.

He will also raise others from the dead (Lk 7:11-17; Jn 5:21; I Thess 4:16), as well as the Father (Ezek 37:13) and as well the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:11).

John 11:24-26 Martha replied, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25Jesus said to her, “I AM the resurrection & the life. Anyone who believes in Me WILL LIVE, EVEN AFTER DYING. And everyone who lives & believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Isaiah 26:19 Your dead WILL LIVE; THEIR BODIES WILL RISE. Here again, as Jesus affirmed in the verses above, that there is a distinction between the person still existing, even though they have physically died AND their body that has died, from which they departed (James 2:26). The person still exists, even though they have died & departed from their bodies. The person's body rises out of the grave & reunites with the person's own soul & spirit.

Matt 12:39-41 Jesus replied, “A wicked & adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days & three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days & three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation & condemn it; for they REPENTED at the preaching of Jonah & now One greater than Jonah is here.

The Scripture prophetically predicts that Jesus said He will rise up & be the Judge of all the earth.

Zeph 3:5-8 Jehovah is righteous within her; He will do no injustice. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He does not fail. But the unjust knows no shame. "I have cut off nations; their corner towers are in ruins. I have made their streets desolate, With no one passing by; their cities are laid waste, without a man, without an inhabitant. I said, 'Surely you will revere Me, accept instruction.' So her dwelling will not be cut off according to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they were eager to corrupt all their deeds. Wherefore expect me, saith Jehovah, in the day of My resurrection ('the day that I rise') that is to come, for My judgment is to assemble the Gentiles & to gather the kingdoms & to pour upon them My indignation, all My fierce anger; for with the fire of My jealousy shall all the earth be devoured. (see Ps 69:24; 79:6; Jer 6:11; 10:25; 14:16; Ezek 21:31; Rev 16:1. According to the remark of the Masorah the only verse of the OT, in which all the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, inclusive of the five finals, occur.)

The LXX: "until the day of my rising up for testimony." Jerome, "In die resurrectionis meae in futurum." The Fathers interpreted this of the times of Messiah - of Christ's resurrection from the dead; of His rising up to divide the spoil (Gen 49:9, 27. See also Augustine, 'De Civil.,' 18:33; Eusebius, 'Dem. Ev.,' 2:17)

Zech 12:10: "They shall LOOK upon Me whom they have pierced..."

Ps 110:1 gives special insight concerning Jesus' ascension after the resurrection. "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies thy footstool." Literally, this reads: "Jehovah said unto Adonai," using two names that applied to God alone--as the Father is apparently speaking directly to the Son. This particular verse is applied to Christ no less than 5X in the NT.

Even the Holy Spirit is said to have raised Him (Romans 8:11; I Pet 3:14-22). So, the act of raising Jesus from the dead was not the operation merely of one Person within the Triune God, but was a cooperative act done by the power of the Divine substance, essence, nature. There is one God BY NATURE.

That may not be true, but even if I assume it is true, Jesus said in John 5:31...hey what did Jesus say in John 5:31? KJV seems to say don't trust what "1 witness/person says", but CLV seems to be inconclusive.

Anyway it is as if Jesus said, "I'm not saying I'm God, but I'll raise this that and the other from the dead...I'm not saying I'm God, but I'll create wine from water. I'm not saying I'm God, but I'll calm the seas with my spoken Word. I'm not saying there is a trinity, but these three personages surely display the attributes of God!!!"

In John 10:17–18 Jesus says something that no mere mortal could ever say: “I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again.” No one else in the history of the world has ever had the authority both to lay down his life and raise it up again.

Furthermore, Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). He did not say, “My Father is the resurrection.” He claimed to be the resurrection Himself; life resides with Jesus, and He has absolute authority over life and death (Revelation 1:18).

Jesus said, "When you see me you see also the Father."

We are told in the Scriptures that Jesus was given the ability of the Resurrection by God.

CLV Ro 8:11 Now if the spirit of Him Who rouses Jesus from among the dead is making its home in you, He Who rouses Christ Jesus from among the dead will also be vivifying your mortal bodies because of His spirit making its home in in you.

CLV 1C 15:22 For even as, in Adam, all are dying, thus also, in Christ, shall all be vivified.
23 Yet each in his own class: the Firstfruit, Christ; thereupon those who are Christ's in His presence;
24 thereafter the consummation, whenever He may be giving up the kingdom to His God and Father, whenever He should be nullifying all sovereignty and all authority and power.
25 For He must be reigning until He which should be placing all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy is being abolished: death.

It is part of the job that comes with Messiah. Destroy all the governments of man and Resurrect all the dead. God has given Him the ability to accomplish all this and more. This does NOT make Him God. I think they just kinda slipped that in there.


CLV 1C 8:6 nevertheless for us there is one God, the Father, out of Whom all is, and we for Him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom all is, and we through Him.

One is God and One is Lord. It's so simple. There is no "trinity" in this verse.

CLV Gn 1:1 IN A BEGINNING Created by the Elohim were the heavens and the earth.
2 Yet the earth became a chaos and vacant, and darkness was on the surface of the submerged chaos. Yet the spirit of the Elohim is vibrating over the surface of the water.

Again, there is no "trinity" in these verses. The "Spirit of the Elohim" is NOT the Elohim.

Exactly Share!

Will also add ... whenever researched, Catholicism is ALWAYS listed as a cult!

Even if that were true, Ladybug, Jesus and the Father are still One (Jesus is still God), something Share denies.

Lud, I will say this ONLY ONCE! I no longer care to read ANYTHING you post, or reply to your posts, for they are nothing more than Catholic lies, blasphemy and heresy! You have been blinded so severely by Catholic teachings/doctrines that you've become a lost soul. I find that truly sad.

.... Jesus DID NOT found the Catholic Church, corrupt men did! And corrupt men wrote the teachings/doctrines out of political gain and greed! Jesus would NEVER found such a cruel monstrosity called the Catholic Church!

.... Peter was NOT the first Pope!

.... Corrupt men bound your Catholic Bible after changing, deleting and adding to God's Word!

.... The Catholic Church is guilty of torturing and killing millions and millions of innocent true Christians, men, women AND children!

.... The TRUE Holy Bible was bound from God's chosen men (Jews and Christians NOT Catholics) from letters written from God's chosen men!

.... Your Catholic Church is treading VERY DANGEROUS waters teaching Replacement Theology of which you believe and constantly post!

.... Your Catholic Church is treading VERY DANGEROUS water teaching no salvation outside of the Catholic Church!!

.... Your Catholic Church is treading VERY DANGEROUS waters teaching Mary is Mother of God, your church and worst, to be prayed to and she's the intercessor BEFORE Jesus! She's idolized ABOVE Jesus!

.... Your church's cannibalistic eucharist is nothing more than a evil ritual crucifying Jesus over and over again and again, that is the message that Jesus' crucifixion was not sufficient as He said it was ..... "It is finished". What your church is doing is calling Jesus a liar! As is every Catholic like you is doing, calling Jesus a liar!

Those are only a few of VERY DANGEROUS things our Lord God will NOT turn a blind eye to!! Your church and EVERY believer of these and other blasphemies and heresies your church and all believers of these things WILL be held accountable for!!!!

Now sure where you see Rev. 1.

CLV Re 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," is saying the Lord God, Who is and Who was and Who is coming, the Almighty.

"Alpha and the Omega" are also in the KJV. What are you comparing it with?

I find the responses interesting because of the various verses one pointing to Jesus Himself, many addressing that it was God the Father.

Here's one that seem to indicate that it was the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth (5723) in you.

So far I would lean with the Father raising Jesus from the dead.

However; it makes me wonder if all Three had a part in Jesus being raised from the dead.

I agree Nubian. The Trinity .... All three, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. There are many verses in Scripture that indicate each of the Trinity was involved. Brashdoc's reply to this was very good in answering this. A short partial quote from Brashdoc's reply ....

Scripture states The Father raised Jesus from the dead. Scripture also testifies that Jesus Himself states He will raise Himself out from among the dead. Scripture also records that the Holy Spirit will raise Jesus from the dead. No one else is mentioned as being able to raise Jesus from the dead except Himself, the Father and the Holy Spirit. Only the living God can raise physically dead people out from their spiritual state in Hades and Paradise as souls/spirits and reunite them with their physical bodies. People do not raise themselves from the dead; only the Creator has that kind of Power.

Jesus said, "Where you shall see me you shall also see the father."

Why do you professed "Christians" waste your time debating questions such as this while you ignore much more important matters? ...

Are your "much more important matters" all the stoning and burning people to death at the stake happening in your neighborhood? You mean those important matters?

A few of us have told you we haven't done that lately. So you might want to consider your sin today and what Emmanuel's solution and Good News for us is.

I haven't claimed stoning and burning people to death is happening in anyone's neighborhood. What a arrogant and stupid response. Why do you reply so stupidly to what I said?

If you don't give a damn what Jesus revealed about Gods true loving and caring nature why do you call yourself a Christian, freegratis?

Then why are you acting as if it is an important matter to answer your questions about stonings?

What is more important to a person than his/her own salvation? Or, KB, what is more important than your own salvation?

Why did Jesus come? Why so much fuss about a cross?

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

bigd was the first responder. Does that make you a liar?

You are feigning an interest in answer the questions you keep posting about stoning and burning at the stake. (That was what I was talking about) And then you reiterate that it is not happening now. So in your mind, that still makes it an important matter? Then you repeat it endlessly and wonder why people call you insane.

Be clear KB, what is the most important matter?

Read this again:
You are feigning an interest in answer the questions you keep posting about stoning and burning at the stake. (That was what I was talking about)

Why do you professed "Christians" waste your time debating questions such as this while you ignore much more important matters?

AS I have said:

It should be obvious to all God/Jesus loving and sane people on this site that it is horrible inhumane wickedness to stone and burn people to death at the stake for all sorts of absurd reasons and to slaughter men, women, children, infants and even animals in the name of God. That's not the nature of God that Jesus came into the world and revealed and if you professed Christians can't accept what Jesus revealed you most certainly are NOT His true followers.

Christians should be striving to believe as Jesus believed and thus to become more like Him and this cannot be done without rejecting all scripture in the book the church compiled that is incompatible with His teachings.

Do you "Christians" have any specific and substantive disagreement with what I say?

Are you all so brainwashed by church doctrine you cannot bring yourself to speak?

I haven't claimed stoning and burning people to death is happening in anyone's neighborhood. What a arrogant and stupid response. Why do you reply so stupidly to what I said?

If you don't give a damn what Jesus revealed about Gods true loving and caring nature why do you call yourself a Christian, freegratis?

Then why are you acting as if it is an important matter to answer your questions about stonings?

What is more important to a person than his/her own salvation? Or, KB, what is more important than your own salvation?

Why did Jesus come? Why so much fuss about a cross?

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.