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- Christians believe in a merciful God, and prayers for the dead reflect the hope that His mercy extends beyond this life. While each person is responsible for their actions on earth, praying for those who passed is a way of asking God’s compassion on any sins that may not have been fully resolved.
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“We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father” (1 Thessalonians 1:2-3, emphasis added throughout).
Nov 3, 2004 · The purpose of this deathless dying is to glorify Christ. Death is God’s appointed way in this fallen world for Christ to get his last praise from us on earth before we enter into endless praise. Paul says we do this by counting death as gain: “It is my eager expectation and hope that . . .
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God’s love is different than natural human love. God loves us when we’re utterly unlovable. When Jesus died, he died for the ungodly, for sinners, and for his enemies. Paul gets at how contrary this is to human nature when he writes, “For one will scarcely die for a righteous person, though perhaps for a good person one would dare to die, but God s...
The death of Christ was effective in its purpose. And its goal was not just to purchase the possibility of salvation, but a people for his own possession. Hear Jesus’s words: “All that the Father gives to me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out… And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all tha...
Jesus’s death was substitutionary. That is, he died in our place. He died the death that we deserved. He bore the punishment that was justly ours. For everyone who believes in him, Christ took the wrath of God on their behalf. Peter writes, “[Jesus] himself bore our sin in his body on the tree that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By ...
Jesus’s death wasn’t just an act of love, it defines love. His substitutionary death is the ultimate example of what love means, and Jesus calls those who follow him to walk in the same kind of life-laying-down love. John writes, “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if an...
Justification, propitiation, and redemption — all benefits of Christ’s death — have one great purpose: reconciliation. Jesus’s death enables us to have a joy-filled relationship with God, which is the highest good of the cross. Paul writes, “And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of...
1 day ago · It’s why prayer for the dead is not just a “nice thing” but part of the very lifeblood of the Church, which is supernatural charity, the lifeblood that joins us and unites us to God who Is ...
In this article, professor and Reformed theologian Dr. J. Todd Billings explores what the resurrection of Christ means for how we think about life after death and where we can find Christian hope when we face death.
1 day ago · Why pray for the dead? “Catholics pray for the dead so they may attain the light, eternal life with our Lord Jesus Christ,” said Father Jean Henri Kouamé Djé, a priest from the Archdiocese ...
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