A syllogism Neville runs in about a dozen lectures (1173, 1232, 1269, 1744, 1750, 1821, 1931 among them), and it is the tightest form of his identification. Scripture says that only Jesus Christ rises from the dead. You have had the experience of having risen from the dead. Therefore you know who you are. He blocks the obvious escape before it is taken: when he resurrects, it is you, because you have no change of identity and no feeling that another one rose with you - it is all you. That is what he means by a universal Christ, not a little Christ: he actually became every being in the world, so the resurrection has no second party in it. What he does with the conclusion is as characteristic as the argument. He does not soften it and he does not apologise for it: you are not ashamed of it, you make no excuses to those who think this is blasphemy, and you go back to ancient scripture, because that is what they said two thousand years ago and what they will say at every moment of time to anyone who makes a similar claim. The broader statement that there is only Jesus Christ in the world belongs elsewhere (M856, M734); this motif is the inference from the resurrection specifically. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.
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only Jesus Christ rises from the dead
you have no change of identity and you have no feeling that another one rose with you
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LectureWhat Does the Lord Require
And yet scripture tells you, only Jesus Christ rises from the dead. So if only Jesus Christ rises from the dead and you have the experience of having risen from the dead, well, then you know who you are.
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