If I told you that approximately 2000 years ago, people were raised from the dead, you would probably say it was true.
If I told you sometime in the future people would be raised from the dead, you would most likely say it was true.
So why if I told you that I saw people raised from the dead last night the first thing you would ask would probably be the name of the mental hospital I escaped from?
2007-12-22 06:19:21 · 14 answers · asked by mattgo64 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So it was corroborated by hundreds of eyewitnessess because the Buybull says so. So maybe the people who wrote the buybull lied?
2007-12-22 06:30:31 · update #1
I don't need Jesus. I have no need for a fictional being who never really existed. maybe you need the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
2007-12-22 06:35:59 · update #2
Interesting. A reality check. LOL
2007-12-22 06:24:14 · answer #1 · answered by MoPleasure4U 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Let me ask you. The Bible says He raised from the dead 2000 and you didn't believe. The Bible says that Jesus will come again and raise from the dead, you don't believe. What makes you think you are ok as you are? If you told that you saw people raised last night, I would ask if God did it and to see proof of the person raised or at least witnesses. The Bible says check out the spirits.
2007-12-22 14:31:47 · answer #2 · answered by BugYA 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I might ask for details, but I'd be one of the few who believed you. My belief allows for the possibility that a human can use the powers available to all of us within the universe to do wonderful and powerful things. It is my belief that this is how Jesus was resurrected. So my belief wouldn't be very strong if I didn't allow for the possibility of someone else achieving this. Plus, I wouldn't be working towards that end myself if I didn't think it was possible. (Not that I think I'm a Christ, or that I will achieve any kind of spiritual perfection in this incarnation. But it's good to have goals)
2007-12-22 14:37:07 · answer #3 · answered by Katie Short, Atheati Princess 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bible tells us what will happen when we die, and niether God, nor Mary (or anyone else in the Bible for that matter) told us that we would be raised from death. We've been told we will either go to Heaven, Hell or we will serve time in Purgatory.
2007-12-22 23:15:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In those dark days of relatively little education i.e. the average man/woman could not read or write, who is to say that the particular bodies in question were in fact really dead rather than drugged or comatosed.
Delibarate Drugged or Connived Comatose situations could easily be used by clever individuals to enhance their standing by sensationalism i.e. appearing to bring someone back to life.
The naive, simple, uneducated masses would easily see it as the work of some superior being.
2007-12-22 14:30:02 · answer #5 · answered by Annie R 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because the bible states that the resurrection will occur at an appointed time in the future, and in an orderly fashion.
- Bob
2007-12-22 14:23:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That's a pretty good one. I get the sarcasm and the dislike for Christianity, but still, you're right. Loony bin time.
2007-12-22 14:42:09 · answer #7 · answered by Jay the Diver 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need Jesus. The Bible says, go from the presence of a fool when thou precievest not knowledge within his lips. So on that tip I'm out.
2007-12-22 14:33:42 · answer #8 · answered by lee lee 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In your proposed scenario, YOU are the only eyewitness. The resurrection accounts in the Bible are corroborated by hundreds of eyewitnesses, therefore they are more credible.
2007-12-22 14:28:12 · answer #9 · answered by revulayshun 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
People don't like to face things they don't have power over. That is why so many do not accept YHVH.
2007-12-22 14:23:43 · answer #10 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋