Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 23:00:47 +1000 (EST)
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Subject: CLM 819 Distinctive Christian Declaration

Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list No. 819                    (Brief)

>From Christian Quotation of the Day 

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Distinctive Christian Declaration
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>From the very first, the conviction that Jesus had been raised from 
death has been that by which [the Christians'] very existence has 
stood or fallen.  There was no other motive to account for them, to 
explain them...    

At no point within the New Testament is there any evidence that the 
Christians stood for an original philosophy of life or an original 
ethic.  Their sole function is to bear witness to what they claim 
as an event -- the raising of Jesus from among the dead...  

The one really distinctive thing for which the Christians stood was 
their declaration that Jesus had been raised from the dead 
according to God's design, and the consequent estimate of him as in 
a unique sense Son of God and representative man, and the resulting 
conception of the way to reconciliation. 

     ... C. F. D. Moule, The Phenomenon of the New Testament [1967] 

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