This would be most likely to happen after the story had passed through many mouths in an age that believed
bodies rose from the dead.
They are confounded by the claim that God is specifically located in a particular person» with a birthday and a birthplace, a nationality, a genealogy, and a biography, as summarized in the Apostles» Creed, of one «who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried... [and] on the third
day rose from the dead.»
We believe that Jesus
rose from the dead with a physical body and that he still has that body of flesh and bones today.
Then there are more risky questions, like why are the gospel stories so different, does Timothy really sound like it was written by Paul, do people really get swallowed by great fishes, do people
really rise from the dead, is there a god.
You try to elevate him to some kind theological super-hero, complete with magic powers,
like rising from the dead, rather than accepting and exploring the complxities of this fascinating historical figure.
Yes of course, they are far more confused than people who believe in verbally expressive faming shrubbery, snakes with the ability to speak, women who get pregnant miraculously, people who can do the aqua moon walk and
zombies rising from the dead.
Even as He was found by his parents after three days, so He would
later rise from the dead on the third day that the favor of God might rest also upon us.
John tells us that Jesus,
now risen from the dead and very much alive, comes to that locked upper room where the Eleven have been hiding.
In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself,
by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!
Bosses are even bigger offenders in this regard, who not
only rise from the dead time and time again but don't evolve in the process, leaving you to work the same maneuvers six or seven times over to finish the fight.
Considering that Jesus
rose from the dead at about 6.00 pm on the Friday, as I expounded in my former essay entitled «How Could Jesus Spend Three Days and Three Nights in the Tomb?»
Bieber said: «Easter is not about a bunny, it's a reminder that my Jesus died on the cross for my sins and then
rose from the dead defeating death!»
I talked a bit more with her about this, and as it turns out, somehow, here in America, she had never been told (or had just never understood) that Jesus had
already risen from the dead!!!
The Christian who believes, in line with all classical Christianity, that Christ
truly rose from the dead knows — whatever elements of truth the doctrine of reincarnation may have on the lower levels of life — that for man the final truth is personal resurrection.