Regarding Resurrection
The cornerstone of Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus - assuming a resurrection* of Jesus and even assuming a Jesus of course. However, Christianity need not pat itself on the back for hitting the Home Run since various other theist cultures have also hit the resurrection ball out of the park. There's Inanna (Mesopotamian), Romulus (Roman) and Zalmoxis (Thracian; Celtic?). There's also Osiris of Ancient Egyptian theology; there's Dionysus (Bacchus to the Romans) and Adonis of Ancient Greek theology**; Balder of Norse theology; Baal of Canaanite theology and so on. You can even find examples in Zen Buddhism. In general, the cycle of life, death and rebirth; stories of death and resurrection were very popular in Middle East mythologies all those thousands of years ago. Jesus ain't no lone ranger when it comes to the resurrection.
*Resurrection is just about as possible or as likely as being able to flap your arms and fly!
**To which could be added Asclepius, Achilles, Thetis, Memnon, Alcmene, Castor, Heracles, and Melicertes.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I love how a complete absence of evidence is considered to be absolute proof. And you wonder why they can't think?
ldheinz
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Oct 6, 2018
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@johnprytz, what I find revealing is what the bible gets wrong. Jesus of Nazareth? Nazareth didn't exist until the late 3rd century. Jews bringing a prisoner to the Romans for judgment? On the Sabbath? Only in the dreams of Romans at the Council of Nicea, when the bible was actually written.
It wasn't so much spoiled as it never made sense in the first place.
If the resurrection actually happened it would certainly be an interesting anomaly, but its significance pales beside the absolutely overpowering miracle of every second of conscious awareness.
The Hindus have their avatars who are thought to be above death, and some Hindus see Jesus as a great avatar. I am storing the subject of resurrection in a remote place in my mind. If new evidence emerges I’ll revisit the issue.
WilliamFleming
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Oct 6, 2018
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@johnprytz I don’t believe in the supernatural. I was just trying to think of a word that would convey great awe and wonder. I still can’t think of an alternative.
There is an aspect to nature that we can’t perceive or understand but that doesn’t make it supernatural. This is twisting words I know, but you could say that the everyday physical world of our senses is supernatural because it is aetheral and ghostly, consisting only of crude symbols of the underlying reality.
I agree with you 100%. In the bible we must consider that Jesus was said to be "the firstfruits of the dead." How can this be when Jesus himself raised others from the dead and the Old Testament has other incidents of people raised from death before Jesus? My first assumption is that people in that day did not have the biblical records that we have today. Either this is true or they all were lying. Then apologists come to the rescue with ideas that Jesus had a permanent resurrection and all the others were just temporary. They go in every direction with this. OK, the zombies who came out of the tombs at the crucifixion were only to scare people and they had to die again. Maybe god was just trying out the resurrection possibilities. Fine tuning them for later when ignorant people afraid to die really need them. Belief in a big book put together in the manner of the bible is impossible. The book itself disproves a god. I rest my case.
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