Did Jesus Christ raise Himself from the dead? The Bible is abundantly clear that it was Jesus’s Father, our Father in heaven, who raised Jesus Christ from the dead – “God the Father, who raised him from the dead” (Gal. 1:1). But on account of the Trinity concept of the eternal self-existence of the Son, many professed Christians are of the view that while being dead, Jesus could exercise power to raise Himself from the dead and to conquer death as it were. What is the true state of the dead? And was Jesus exempt from the death experience that other humans experience? The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus died. Jesus says: “I am he that liveth, and was dead” (Rev. 1:18).

Seventh-day Adventists, in particular, should not fall for the error of the Trinity because it contradicts one of their primary doctrinal pillars regarding the state of the dead – as the Bible says “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing” (Eccl. 9:5). Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died in our place was as much dead as any other person who dies and was not alive on a different plane while appearing to be dead. To be consistent with scripture, Jesus conquered death by the life He lived, and not while He was dead.

“He that hath ears to hear, let him hear” (Matt. 11:15).

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