"Theories of resurrection of the body are logically coherent" Discuss.?

Question

Of all the resurrection stories you've heard, does it ever seem possible?

Answer 1

The resurrection of the body said to occur at the end of history is problematic because of the issue of identity. A body's component atoms are dispersed throughout the world, and become parts of other bodies. Therefore, it cannot be the matter of the body which is resurrected, but the body is resurrected as matter. This means that one is forced to conclude that something continues of a person after their death, but according to some readings of the Bible there is no consciousness between death and resurrection. Therefore, there must be a soul which sleeps between death and resurrection, meaning that its substance is neither conscious nor the same as physical matter, and this substance must persist through time in this state. If this does not occur, the resurrected body is not the same person as the previously living individual, but another being with the same memories and personality traits, like an identical twin. If this is the case, it would be unjust for this newly created person to be saved or damned, in particular because they would never have committed themselves to Christ and atonement could not take place. However, the witch of Endor was able to call on Solomon from beyond the grave, and the Bible describes him as Solomon rather than a deceiving spirit, so presumably it's possible for someone who believes in the Bible to believe in a persistent identity of some kind, perhaps in a Platonic sense, where the soul of a person is their Form.

The question of Jesus, Lazarus and Jairus' daughter is another matter. The substance of their bodies was not dispersed after their death, so their identity is preserved in a physical sense, and the question of their resurrection is less problematic.

Brain cells have been cultured successfully something like twelve hours after death. This means that it is theoretically possible for some biological process to cause someone to come back to life many hours, at least, after both brain death and the cessation of cardiac activity without any special conditions. Such a person might be similar in character to the one who had died, but depending on how long after death it was, their personality would be increasingly dissimilar to its nature before their death because their memories would not survive. Therefore, Lazarus would be unlikely to respond personally to the call "Lazarus come forth", and people in such a state would probably have global amnesia.

Another possibility exists, however, namely that organs other than the brain carry part of the memory, as some anecdotes about transplant organs suggest. If this is so, it might be that such memories are more robust than those which occur in the brain, and the character would be fairly well-preserved.

In reality, of course, the notion of resurrection is based on belief in dualism.

Answer 2

It depends on what kind of resurrection you're talking about.

Many people are brought back to life by CPR. That is factual resurrection. And the body can be brought back to life after much longer than just 4 - 5 minutes of a flatline. It depends on the state of consciousness as flatline occurs.

Usually the phrase "resurrection of the body" is in reference to the Catholic doctrine that it is the body which is raised in to immortal existence in the after life. This is the reason that Catholics are supposed to be buried not cremated.

If that were true, the remains of "saints" would not be left here on Earth as the artifacts that believers make pilgrimages to visit.

The resurrection of the body into the spirit world is not coherent as "resurrection" means to raise the actual form back to it's original living state.

In occult theory and practice, the resurrection of a dead person is possible but trying to apply logic to such events is an exercise in futility. Some things you have to accept that there is no logic behind it and that there will be no scientific proof.

When a mother lifts a 2 tonne truck to save her child, it defies just about every rule of physics and biology. We are more than the sum of our parts though and what the human being (body and soul combined) is capable of goes beyond the logic of the material world.

Just don't try to apply logic to it.

Answer 3

Well, none of them are recent, documented, filmed or otherwise open to rational inquiry. None of them just happen to ordinary people, and most of them happen according to stories contained in the Bible. I'm not sure if logic alone can confirm or discount the stories, but if resurrection was something that could happen as a normal consequence of the process of dying, there ought to be a lot more resurrections than there seem to have been...and if they were normal occurrences, they wouldn't be described as examples of miracles. So, on balance the resurrection stories are probably just stories, told to make a point about the ultimate power of some God or other. Now, examples of people apparently coming back to life after all life signs are extinguished is not the same as resurrection - they appear to be spontaneous rather than caused, and are probably more to do with our lack of knowledge of the range of possible states of being alive without being conscious. As we don't do active research on dead bodies to check just how dead they are once we have decided that all life signs are gone, we don't know whether some people certified dead may still be alive, and sometimes people do appear to come back to life. In reality, they weren't actually dead, it's just that we didn't realise that. Stories are not reality, faith does not move mountains, and you really shouldn't believe all that you read in religious texts.

Answer 4

There are documented medical cases of people being dead for a short time then coming back to life. These patients had absolutely no brain activity, they were clinically dead, yet somehow they would come back. This may not be resurrection in the sense you are asking about, but it is still interesting and relevent to the topic.

Answer 5

"Logically coherent" means understandable as a theory. It is not the same as "logical" itself. There are 72 forms of syllogistic logic. 60 of them necessarily lead to false conclusions. Of the remaining 12, not one leads necessarily to the truth. Theories of ressurection fall into one or the other group; when they fail, they do so because of an improper premise. In the 60, there are at least two improper premises.
No premise about ressurection is metaphysically or epistemologically consistent with empirical existence.

Answer 6

"flesh and blood" will possibly no longer enter into God's kingdom, yet "flesh and bone" can and could. Resurrection is the reuniting of the spirit with the physique in an immortal state, no longer project to ailment or loss of lifestyles. whilst the resurrected Lord recognized to His Apostles, He helped them understand that He had a physique of flesh and bones. He pronounced, "Behold my hands and my ft, that that's i myself: handle me, and notice; for a spirit hath no longer flesh and bones, as ye see me have" Resurrection is the inseparable reunion of the spirit with an immortal, glorified actual physique. The physique laid in the grave is mortal; the resurrected actual physique is immortal. There are allusions to the belief of resurrection in the previous testomony. as properly, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, because of the fact the prototype of all resurrections, is an important and useful message of the hot testomony: "i'm the resurrection and the lifestyles" (John 11:25). id and character stick to the spirit, and after the resurrection, the spirit will stay perpetually in a actual physique. in assessment to Platonism and gnosticism, the scriptures prepare that the actual physique is a step upward in the progression and perfection of all. The physique is sacred and can be recognized as a temple (a million Cor. 3:sixteen). because of the fact resurrection is as conventional as loss of lifestyles, all might desire to die and all might desire to be resurrected. that's a loose present to all adult males, yet no longer all would be resurrected on an identical 2d. The resurrected physique will additionally be appropriate to the situations and glory to which the guy is assigned in the day of judgment.

Answer 7

They are all based on the known fact that all matter is energy. Teachings of Resurrection involve increasing the vibration of the body, or turning it into Light! Blessings!

Answer 8

Resuscitation of the body is possible, resurrection of the flesh is improbable. The difference, I suppose, would depend on the length of time said body had been deceased.

Answer 9

There is no in principle reason t assume it impossible. But coherence alone is not a means of deciding truth. This is why Rationalism fails.

Answer 10

resurrection is just another atempt to avoid the finality of death. to belive it could happen to "god" simply opens the possibilty it could happen to u.