1gr8bldr
Senior Member
I'm surprised he was not quicker on the draw with this. Most will give a quick answer. However, for me...... I don't think it matters if Jesus were raised from the dead and walked and talked before taking his place in heaven. That would simply just be proof to those who saw him. Whether you believe he is dead in the grave, no more or alive in the place we call heaven, this is what matters to me. Bodily resurrection on earth was never the goal of Christianity. I don't know.... he could have had a bodily resurrection on earth and revealed himself to a few, but what was the point? He did not stay, did not reveal himself to many, never intended to stay. "I'm going to a place you can not come". Nothing is accomplished with or without the bodily resurrection of Christ. Alive in the place we call heaven, life after death...... this is the central theme of Christianity afterlife. It very well could be that after the fact... that embellishments of Jesus being raised evolved into the stories we have today. In any story, they always get embellished with time. Why not this as well. Jesus never alluded to proving he was alive. If he had planned on proving it.... then why bother to teach them that he would be raised again? He could have just shown them. However..... he may have shown himself in different ways, just exactly as the NT says. I can't dispute it's accuracy. Only point out that it should not be expected that he prove it by showing himself. Jesus was speaking, teaching through eyes of faith. Not knowing these things, only referring to himself by what he understood of the scriptures of the "one to come". He reasoned "by faith" that he would be raised from the dead. We always here the term "bodily resurrection". We don't require it, can't prove it, so why do we keep putting emphasis on it?