a good amount of people claimed they knew he was dead by his smell..
ive smelled some pretty nasty people in my time, does that mean ive been smelling dead people?
2007-02-23 05:02:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
u guys realize that the moment u die u dont immediatly start smelling horrible right?
do any of you even know how decomposition works??
2007-02-23 05:16:32 · update #1
You've got the sixth sense...
I smell dead people...
Does the smell rise off them in symbolic colors? =0)
2007-02-23 05:07:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't think that the Biblical text said that Lazarus smelled. Martha objected to the command from Jesus that the stone be rolled away from the tomb of Lazarus, because she assumed that the tomb would stick like rotten flesh after having a dead body in it for three days straight (no one had smelled anything yet).
They knew that Lazarus was dead, because no one could survive three days without air. It had nothing to do with the smell.
2007-02-23 13:13:11 · answer #2 · answered by Randy G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ok long story short he died and they wrapped him in a shroud and he laid in a airless grave for for days. when they opened the grave the smell that only the dead can have engulfed them. and for your supposition that people that don't shower smell, while that is true but the smell of a dead man and the smell of a dirty person are completely different. Jesus told him to come forth and he was raised from the dead! so yes he really raised Lazarus from the dead.
2007-02-23 13:15:07 · answer #3 · answered by Thumbs down me now 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The day that you actually smell a dead person, then you will know what the smell is like. In the day this happened, there was no preserving, no changing out the blood for embalming fluid, no mummifying, since they weren't egyptians, so the smell must be horrible especially after several days of death.
That is what is made reference to in this scripture writing.
2007-02-23 13:09:27 · answer #4 · answered by Perhaps I love you more 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You've hit a new low, Chippy. Bravo. You want to tell the class what MASH unit you worked in or what charnel house employed you? Just who were these nasty-smelling people that you compare to the unembalmed dead?
2007-02-23 13:16:27 · answer #5 · answered by cmw 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Someone said to Jesus "Lord, he stinketh aleady" but it was a false quote. That was put on there to make us think he was dead, when really he wasn't. Lazarus was alive the whole time, and he wasn't stinking.
The whole story was foisted for the purpose of making Jesus look really great. But Jesus was already pretty great, and didn't need to have stories made up for him.
2007-02-23 13:22:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
youve been smelling people with bad BO. The smell of a decaying corpse is very unique. And im sure your rich arrogant nose has never smelled it before so i can see your confusion
2007-02-23 13:08:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
the smell of decomposing flesh is like no other smell on earth
2007-02-23 13:07:23 · answer #8 · answered by wd 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
unlikely.... death has a smell all on its own... consider that back then, there was no deoderant used... and baths were infrequent... everyone would have had a smell... but death is like none other...
2007-02-23 13:07:42 · answer #9 · answered by livinintheword † 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
nasty
2007-02-23 13:09:11 · answer #10 · answered by rezany 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋