Jesus’return

 What goes on in the resurrection of Jesus? If Christ was not resurrected, then our proclamation is in vain, and your faith is in vain. And then it is found that we are false witnesses of God, because we testified against God, that He raised the Christ whom He did not resurrect … “(also Cor 15: 14-15) The Resurrection of Jesus Christ for the Whole Christian Message: Resurrection is the foundation of all Christianity, the Christian faith stands and falls with the truth of the testimony that Christ has risen from the dead. God and man, about his being and morality – a kind of religious worldview – but the Christian faith would be gone, Jesus would be a spiritual person who experienced a fiasco. Despite this fiasco, he would remain a great personality, would be limited to a purely human dimension, and its authority would only extend as far as its legacy seems acceptable to us. it would not be Jesus for us, but it would be our judgment of what we choose from his heritage and what It seems useful to us. It would mean that we are left to ourselves. The last instance would be our own judgment. Only when Christ rose from the dead did something happen, something that changed the world and the situation of man. And then he becomes the criterion we can rely on. For in such a case, God showed up.
In this regard, the Resurrection is a decisive point in our quest for the person of Jesus. Whether Jesus was, or is, depends on the Resurrection. “Yes” or “no” in this question does not refer to an event that is just one of many, but also of Jesus’ person himself. It is, therefore, essential that we listen to the New Testament, particularly carefully in the testimony of the Resurrection. First, we must note that this testimony has a historically extremely complex form and raises several questions. What happened? Understandably, it was not easy for witnesses who met with the Resurrection to answer this question. They were confronted with a whole new reality that went beyond their experience horizon. What happened had seized them on the one hand and forced them to bear witness, but on the other hand, nothing could be compared. St. Mark tells us that as they descended from the top of the Transfiguration, the disciples dealt with Jesus’ words that the Son of Man would “rise from the dead.”. And really: What is it? The disciples did not know it and had to find out in contact with reality. If someone approaches the resurrection messages, assuming they know what it is, they will not understand these messages correctly and will have to sweep them off the table as meaningless. Rudolf Bultmann objected to the belief in the Resurrection that if Jesus had indeed returned from the grave, we would still have to say that “a naturally miraculous event such as the revival of the dead” would be useless and existential. (Neues Testament und Mythologie – New Testament and Mythology, p. 19) Indeed, if Jesus’ Resurrection were only a miracle of the carcass revival, it would ultimately not concern us at all. As the resuscitation of the clinically dead due to the art of doctors. Neither the world nor our existence would change it. , Jair’s daughter (cf. Mk 5,22-24.35-43 par.) Or Lazarus (cf. John 11: 1-44). Life, so that they will eventually die for some time. However, New Testament testimonies leave us in no doubt that “the Resurrection of the Son of Man” has happened quite differently. a new dimension of human being, so the Resurrection of Jesus is not an ordinary event that does not apply to us Only in the past, but a “mutational leap” (if we want to use this misleading term in an analogous sense). He resurrected the resurrection inseparably with the resurrection of the Christians: “If the dead do not rise, then neither did Christ rise … But Christ rose from the dead, the first fruits of the dead.” (i Cor 15,16.20) The resurrection of Christ is either a universal event or nothing – Paul tells us. And only when we see it as a universal event, as an opening to a new dimension of human existence, are we heading to a proper understanding of the whole New Testament testimony of the resurrection.
From this point of view, one can grasp the peculiarity of this testimony in the New Testament. Jesus did not return to the healthy human life in this world as the Lazarus or the other dead he raised. He entered another, new life – the broad horizon of God, and from there, he reveals himself. Even for the disciples, it was something completely unexpected and had to deal with it only gradually. The Jewish faith knew the resurrection of the dead at the end of time. New life has been linked to the dawn of the modern world, and from this point of view, it has been somewhat understandable: if there is a new world, there must be a new type of life.