Isn't Jesus a zombie by definition?

Question

Zombie: A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/zombie

If no, why not?

Answer 1

Interesting thought. What about the possibility that the Disciples may have been vampires? After all, there was the whole "This is the blood of my blood thing and whosoever drinketh of me shall have everlasting life" thing.

Could one of the 12 Disciples actually be the legendary Vlad Tepish, on whom the Dracula novel was based?

-SD-

Answer 2

Those "zombies" in the Caribbean aren't dead for starters, and they aren't brought back by any supernatural force (just charlatans using powerful drugs to put people into a state of "suspended animation" and then drugs to get them out of that state). So since they don't exist, why do we have a word for them? (For the same reason that we have words for all sorts of mythical creatures!) Since Jesus would be the only living individual brought back from the dead, but not in his actual body if you read the scriptures carefully, you don't need the word in his case either. So, no, there's no such thing as a zombie.

Answer 3

Nope. By definition a zombie is brought back to life by voodoo. Jesus was brought back to life by God. A zombie is brought back to life withou a soul. Jesus never lost His soul.

zom·bie

n
2. dead body given life by voodoo: in voodoo, a dead body supposedly brought back to life again without a soul
3. voodoo spirit reviving dead body: in voodoo, a spirit that supposedly brings a dead body back to life again

Answer 4

no because zombie is our defintion of someone who was dead and came back to life but there are also many other people who were pronounced dead but came back alive later so do we go around calling them zombies? Jesus is alive!! and he was not brought back by a supernatural force he was brought back by his Father God.

Answer 5

You have a good point there.

Christianity? Jesus? Dying?

What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?

(NOT A VIRGIN BIRTH! - betcha never knew that.)

Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .

If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.

Gods do not die? Do they?

If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?

Did Jesus give up Saturday for us? Big deal!

If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.

If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!

If you swallow this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to swallow it too.

Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.

Believing and not thinking is like choosing a mental illness and becoming lost.

Answer 6

depends on if he actually came back to life or not. Zombies I believe are the living dead they aren't actually alive. If he was just a corpes walking around not breathing then he might have been a zombie.

Answer 7

Well, He did rise from the dead. I guess the only difference between Jesus and zombies is that nothing falls off of Jesus:)

Answer 8

no, it says that a zombie is a dead body brought back to life by voodoo spirits, and controlled by them.

Zombie being the snake god of african voodoo cults, and a zombie being a dead body that is posessed by that spirit.

Did you read that definition? its not 'a' supernatural force, its a voodoo god.

Jesus' same spirit was put back in his same body. completely different.

Answer 9

All Hail the Zombie Jesus. He ate brains for your sins!

Answer 10

Depends on who writes the definition.

The word Zombie has an ill connotation - that why you, as a Christaphobic, picked it.