"Anyone approaching the Resurrection accounts in the belief that he knows what rising from the dead means will inevitably misunderstand those accounts and will then dismiss them as meaningless. "
A chareidi chevruta of mind back in the day used to say this to me all the time, about all kinds of things.
"Jesus had not returned to a normal human life in this world like Lazarus and the others whom Jesus raised from the dead. He has entered upon a different life, a new life -- he has entered the vast breadth of God himself..." (p. 244).
Because it is something entirely new, it cannot represent a violation of natural law as understood by science.
Even if I give 'em that the Jesus Resurrection was a "new thing", what about the other resurrections?
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You were really able to read that whole thing?? I have my doubts.
"There's no record of people committing themselves to the point of martyrdom to other imaginative possibilities as they have to Resurrection."
I love that one...what about Islam though?
just replace resurection with TMS and Christianity with The Jews and its all the same....beautifully done.
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"Anyone approaching the Resurrection accounts in the belief that he knows what rising from the dead means will inevitably misunderstand those accounts and will then dismiss them as meaningless. "
A chareidi chevruta of mind back in the day used to say this to me all the time, about all kinds of things.
*of mine
You'd think someone would notice this...
"Jesus had not returned to a normal human life in this world like Lazarus and the others whom Jesus raised from the dead. He has entered upon a different life, a new life -- he has entered the vast breadth of God himself..." (p. 244).
Because it is something entirely new, it cannot represent a violation of natural law as understood by science.
Even if I give 'em that the Jesus Resurrection was a "new thing", what about the other resurrections?
>just replace resurection with TMS and Christianity with The Jews and its all the same....beautifully done.
What does TMS have to do with Science? Are you referring to the documentary hypothesis?
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