What is the Claim Support for Your Belief System?

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What is the Claim Support for Your Belief System?
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Claim1  "The Problem Is Deadness, Not
Badness"
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Claim1 "The Problem is Deadness, not Badness"
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My
word and believes in Him who sent Me has
everlasting life, and shall not come into
judgment, but has passed from death into life.
Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming,
and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of
the Son of God and those who hear will live. For
as the Father has life in Himself, so He has
granted the Son to have life in Himself.
John 524-26 (NKJV)
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Claim1 "The Problem is Deadness, not Badness"
And you He made alive, who were dead in
trespasses and sins, In which you once walked...
we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of
our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
and of the mind... But God, who is rich in mercy,
because of His great love with which He loved
us... Even when we were dead in trespasses, made
us alive together with Christ.
Ephesians 21-5 (NKJV)
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A Bad Heart is Really a Dying Heart
And you He made alive, who were dead in
trespasses and sins, In which you once walked...
we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of
our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
and of the mind...
Ephesians 21,3
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• Claim Support
• Symptoms of Spiritual Death

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual
immorality, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, evil-mindedness they are whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud,
boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient
to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy,
unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful.
Romans 129-30 (NKJV)
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• Claim Support
• Symptoms of Physical Death

1 out of 1 people die!
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Claim 2 He Can Conquer Death Physically
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Claim 2 He Can Conquer Death Physically
And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is
empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we
are found false witnesses of God, because we have
testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom
He did not raise up -- if in fact the dead do not
rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is
not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith
is futile you are still in your sins! Then also
those who have fallen asleep in Christ have
perished. If in this life only we have hope in
Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
1 Corinthians 1514-19 (NKJV)
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Claim 2 He Can Conquer Death Spiritually
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Claim 2 He Can Conquer Death Spiritually
But because of his great love for us, God, who is
rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even
when we were dead in transgressions -- it is by
grace you have been saved. And God raised us up
with Christ
Ephesians 24-6 (NKJV)
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Claim Support Jesus Conquered Death Physically

• Historical Witnesses
• Cosmological Witnesses
• Transformed Witnesses

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Historical Witnesses
Latin Dis Augustis Tiberiem Pontius Pilatus
Praefectus Judaeae Fecit dedicavit English
To the honorable gods (this) Tiberium Pontius
Pilate, Prefect of Judea, had dedicated
Found in 1961 by Italian Archaeologist Dr.
Antonio Frova Approximate Origin Date 26-37 AD
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"About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man,
if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he
wrought surprising feats. When Pilate condemned
him to be crucified, those who had come to love
him did not give up their affection for him. On
the third day he appeared restored to life, and
the tribe of Christians has not disappeared."


Jewish Historian Josephus 37-100 A.D.
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A wise man called Jesus Pilate condemned Him to
die (His disciples) reported that he had
appeared to them three days after his
crucifixion.
Roman Historian Tacitus 109 A.D.
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Cosmological Witnesses
Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour
there was darkness over all the landAnd Jesus
cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up
His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple
was torn in two from top to bottom and the earth
quaked, and the rocks were split
Matthew 2745-46, 50-51 (NKJV)
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Solar Eclipse?
Greek author Phlegon wrote about the darkness
that occurred in the 4th year of the 202nd
Olympiad (equivalent to 33 AD) "There was the
greatest eclipse of the sun. It became as night
in the sixth hour of the day (noon) so that the
stars even appeared in the heavens. There was a
great earthquake in Bithynia and many things were
overturned in Nicaea."
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Solar Eclipse?
In A.D. 52, Historian Thallus when discussing
the darkness which fell upon the land during the
crucifixion of Christ, spoke of it as an
eclipse. Julius Africanus in A.D. 221 gives a
commentary "Thallus in the third book of his
histories explains away the darkness as an
eclipse of the sun unreasonable as it seems to
me."
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Jewish Talmud says on the eve of Passover they
hanged Yeshu (of Nazareth) Passover is always
celebrated on the month of Nisan when the full
moon begins.
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Transformed Witnesses
Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the
week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary came to see the tomb But the angel
answered Do not be afraid, for I know that you
seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here for
He is risen, as He said. And as they went to tell
His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying,
Rejoice! So they came and held Him by the feet
and worshiped Him.
Matthew 281-7 (NKJV)
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The Da Vinci Code Pg. 232-3 says "...in 350,
Constantine shifted (the Christian Sabbath from
Saturday to Sunday) to coincide with the pagan
veneration Day of the Sun." 
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In 137 A.D., Roman writer Phlegon said Jesus,
while alive, was of no assistance to himself, but
that he arose after death, and exhibited the
marks of his punishment and showed how his hands
had been pierced by nails.
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The Epistle of Barnabus 100 A.D. Wherefore we
Christians keep the eighth day for joy, on which
Jesus arose from the dead and when he appeared
ascended into heaven.
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"I have been used for many years to study the
histories of other times, and to examine and
weigh the evidence of those who have written
about them, and I know of no one fact in the
history of mankind which is proved by better and
fuller evidence of every sort, to the
understanding of a fair inquirer, than the great
sign which God hath given us that Christ died and
rose again from the dead."
Thomas Arnold - Author, History of Rome Chair of
Modern History at Oxford
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