Resurrection – Smith For Christ Blog

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Absent From the Body: Where the Dead in Christ Are Right Now

Eschatology — the step in the sequence almost nobody teaches At a graveside, nobody asks whether the dead will be […]

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Eschatology

What Kind of Body? The Question Paul Refused to Dodge

By Eddie / August 24, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Eschatology / David Jeremiah, End Times Prophecy, heaven, Hope, Resurrection

1 Corinthians 15 and the body you will be raised in It usually gets asked in a parking lot after

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Eschatology

Each in His Own Order: The Resurrections the Bible Actually Numbers

By Eddie / August 21, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Eschatology / Bible prophecy, End Times Prophecy, prophecy, Prophecy Framework, Resurrection

Scripture does not describe one general resurrection at the end of everything. Paul wrote a marching order and John numbered the ranks. The sequence is where sensationalism dies.

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Gospel Foundations

Raised for Your Justification: Why the Empty Tomb Is Not the Epilogue

By Eddie / August 19, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Gospel Foundations / Christ, gospel, grace, Resurrection, Salvation

Gospel Foundations — what the resurrection actually accomplished Ask a man raised in church what saved him and he will

A shaft of golden light breaking through parting clouds onto a still mountain lake beneath a vast starfield — The Objection Sounds Like Science. The Author Wrote the Rules.

Apologetics

Miracles Do Not Break the Universe: Answering the Objection Before It Starts

By Eddie / July 19, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Apologetics / Apologetics, logic, Resurrection, Truth, Worldview & Discernment

“I just cannot believe in miracles.” It sounds like a scientific finding. It is a philosophical assumption in a lab coat, and the circle inside it is easy to see once you look.

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Apologetics

Faith Is Not the Absence of Evidence: Answering the New Atheist Definition

By Eddie / July 16, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Apologetics / Apologetics, logic, Resurrection, Truth, Worldview & Discernment

The New Atheists win by defining faith as belief without evidence—then defeating it. But the Bible never used the word that way, and the resurrection invites its own cross-examination.

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Eschatology

Two Resurrections, a Thousand Years Apart: Why the Order Matters

By Eddie / July 4, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Eschatology / Bible prophecy, Book of Revelation, End Times Prophecy, Prophecy Framework, Resurrection

Chronology and sobriety — Scripture describes two resurrections, and a thousand years stands between them. Say the words “the resurrection”

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Apologetics

The New Atheists Asked the Wrong Question

By Eddie / June 30, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Apologetics / Apologetics, logic, Resurrection, Truth, Worldview & Discernment

The loudest objections of the New Atheism were not its strongest. Its strongest objection quietly undercut itself. For about a

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Eschatology

The Dead in Christ Shall Rise: The Hope That Makes You Holy

By Eddie / June 28, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Eschatology / Bible prophecy, End Times Prophecy, Hope, John MacArthur, Resurrection

Eschatology — the dead in Christ will rise, and that changes how you live now. Stand at the edge of

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Apologetics

The New Atheism’s Borrowed Capital: What Dawkins Can’t Explain

By Eddie / June 22, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Apologetics / Apologetics, logic, Resurrection, Truth, Worldview & Discernment

Apologetics — What the New Atheists Borrow Without Acknowledging Richard Dawkins is morally outraged. Christopher Hitchens was morally outraged. Sam

They Called It Nonsense — The Tomb Is Still Empty: an ancient garden tomb with the stone rolled aside, dawn light streaming from the open doorway over a shadowed garden.

Apologetics

Not Done in a Corner: The Resurrection Evidence Every Skeptic Has to Explain

By Eddie / June 12, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Apologetics / Apologetics, Faith, logic, Resurrection, Truth

Christianity stakes everything on one checkable claim. Paul named living witnesses and dared his readers to go ask them. The empty tomb, the women, the martyrs, the converted skeptics — examine it.

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Apologetics

Either the Tomb Was Empty, or Your Faith Is a Waste of Time

By Eddie / May 31, 2026 / Leave a Comment / Apologetics / Apologetics, Faith, gospel, Resurrection, Truth

Christianity stakes everything on one event and dares you to investigate it. The minimal-facts case for the resurrection — and why every alternative explanation collapses.