ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 52 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> I can tell we are jumping in now with a lot of loose end questions. I have one. Why do the Creeds make reference to the burial of Jesus? I'm referring to the phrase "He was crucified, died and was buried." >> DR. DAVID SCAER: Nick, we already spoke about the sequence in Christ's life. At the end of his life. His death. The provisions for his burial. His descent into hell. And his resurrection. The humiliation. And the exaltation. But the question of his burial is extremely important. It was pointed out by one German theologian by the name of Pannenberg. In the middle of the last century there were doubts being raised about the resurrection of Jesus. And it was the common belief that the resurrection of Jesus did not belong to the primitive faith of the early church but that it was added later. The early church simply believed that Jesus was exalted without defining what exaltation meant, what glorification meant. And that later as the church moved into the Hellenistic world, they attached the idea that his exaltation involved a bodily resurrection. Pannenberg pointed out something very significant. And that is in I Corinthians in Chapter 15, Paul does not simply say that Christ died according to the scriptures and he rose from the dead on the third day. He puts in the phrase "and was buried." And he doesn't attach the burial to the death of Jesus. He attaches the burial to the resurrection of Jesus. I delivered to you of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for sins according to the scriptures. And that he was buried. And that he rose again. And from that -- he argued that from the very earliest time, because they included the reference to the burial, the church, the Christian church, had an awareness of the resurrection, which was at the center of Christian belief. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***