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Originally Posted by WillyPete
(Edit: This, to MG)
Not quite.
'Resurrection' as I've used it is the literal sense that is used in the NT.
Arising from the dead. If it was the same body that was put in the tomb or if it was magically re-created some way, but essentially having the same person stand before you 3 days after their death.
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Literal sense? Which one?
I don't mean that speciously. No text is self-interpreting. In the first Gospel written, Mark, there is no appearance story. Two are tacked on much later... Some of the stories seem to point to some etheral apparaition. He walks through walls, etc. But, he also eats some broiled fish and has Thomas feel his wounds.
Simply, there are Christian theologies that both reference a physical re-animation, and a spiritual appearance/precense.
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Essentially, you'd need to go back in time, visit with him and put a video recorder on timelapse in his tomb.
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The point isn't what happens in the tomb. what matters is that on Easter, it is empty.
In the end, i severely doubt that the Truth would in any sense "prove" that Christian practice as understood today is True. capitol letters intentional...
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Originally Posted by G. Rawson, Quoting J. Robinson
We limit not the truth of God to our poor reach of mind --
By notions of our day and sect -- crude partial and confined
No, let a new and better hope within our hearts be stirred
For God hath yet more light and truth to break forth from the Word
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I'm not inclined to believe that the Holy mystery is reducable to a proof, were we to have the right evidence.