Reply #78: Good question

[MistressOverdone]

VERY good question. And my answer has changed with stages of my life. So many possibilities!

Of course, there is the option that God suspended the laws this time and reached down and took him back.

Next, it happened sometime Saturday, nobody really knows when because it was sabbath. The corpse could have been as fresh as one day and some hours. We've all heard of people turning up alive on the autopsy table before the first cut. However, most of them don't go on to physically ascend to heaven

And I'll even buy the concept (although not as intriguing) that the ressurection was a metaphor for our eventual entering into a life eternal. Christ died, apostles had dreams, visions, etc., that proved to them he was alive as consciousness somewhere (ala John Edwards? maybe?)

Bottom line, I dunno. I like the first option. I think there are truths in the Bible but they are nuggets hidden inside years of oral history and people with agendas. I personally don't spend too much time sortng it out because my personal relationship with this spirit is not dependent of the veracity of each and every detail.

And there is always the possibility that, along wit 90% of the population, I am mentally ill, childish, delusional, believe in fairy tales, etc. But that's okay. I'm having a very nice life doing it this way!