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Sunnybeach7 - really, when you think about it the story has a few holes
If someone was in fact resurrected, why wouldn't they just continue living? If they were headed off to heaven, why would resurrection be necessary?
I think we can reasonably assume that his followers removed the body from the tomb, hid it somewhere and then made up a whopper to hide their tracks. Fortunately for them, people bought it at the time but there is no excuse for people insisting today, that it happened as described.
posted by
gomedome
on October 29, 2008 at 11:09 PM
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Gome,
I've thought about this a bit lately... and ya know, the fact that someone died and "had risen" from the dead isn't even as preposterous as being resurrected and then they and their body are whooshed away to heaven.
I think I must be missing the point of the whole resurrection thingy. I mean, rising from the dead is a great feat. You'd think God would have gotten some awesome promotion if he had stuck around AFTER resurrection... I mean, it's not every day that someone rises from the dead.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 29, 2008 at 9:53 PM
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Re: the Bible writers expected these things in their lifetimes.
Xeno-x - that is obvious to anyone looking at it objectively but for some reason these portions of Christian eschatology have taken on a life of their own.
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gomedome
on October 28, 2008 at 8:39 PM
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the Bible writers expected these things in their lifetimes.
just around the corner -- even the Book of Revelation writes about things that will "shortly come to pass".
And when they didn't, as you said --80 generations, every one thought it would "shortly come to pass".
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Xeno-x
on October 28, 2008 at 10:06 AM
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