A long time ago a man who had attempted to lead an uprising of the Jewish people against their Roman dominators was executed. As this person died on the cross something very strange happened:
(imagine music from Dark Shadows, or the X-files if you are from generation X)
(Mat 27:50 NRSV) Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last.
(Mat 27:52 NRSV) The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
So many tombs opened up and dead people came back to life. Supposedly they just sort of hung out for a few days doing zombie stuff until…
(Mat 27:53 NRSV) After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many.
So after the resurrection, dead people who had been hanging out in their tombs for days came walking out into the streets for everyone going about their daily lives to see.
(This is actually in the Bible)
Where do you get the pictures you use for your articles? ;)
I get most off of the internet and heavily photoshop them. ;^)
duh… lol
What about Lazarus? Jesus plays Re-Animator!
Good point.
P_G, that was too deep and a little too strange about the food thingy. I agree though that rock-n-roll (and even jazz) has gotten a bad rap and not because it’s “evil” as some might proclaim, but on the very fact that it is an art form that allows for independent and intellectual expression apart from the social “norm”. We can’t have free-thinkers running around and “influencing” our tender, impressionable kine.
Capella, I love the humor here that you present. I’m glad to have stumbled upon your site, but I do get the message you are stating here. It’s ludicrous, just plain ludicrous. We live in a world where the dead do not rise from the grave, and I have never witnessed or seen real, factual documentation of such an occurence. Has reality shifted and altered in such a way that the times of Jesus, and reality of that time, have been suspended? We have Christians that have been waiting for the Second Coming since they have been told that it is coming. Personally, I wish it would just hurry up and get the hell here whence they can all be raptured up into Gods’ loving arms and leave us non-believers in peace.
Damn,
I do wish the rapture would hurry up and get here.Think of all the fine cars that the televangelist will leave behind.(Maybe even parked in front of a few whore houses).
I’ll go for the Mercedes.
oh no…not the televangelists. Everybody knows that God is really Amish.
Interesting how that Matthew often heightens the miraculous of Mark’s gospel,if you compare their accounts.Another example of the increasingly miraculous is in the accounts of the resurrection.In Mark(the earliest)we have mention of a ‘young man in a white robe’at the tomb of Jesus.In Luke this becomes ‘two men in shining garments’;in Matthew it becomes ‘an angel of the lord descended from heaven,his countenance like lightning.’Then in John (the last gospel) this becomes ‘two angels in white plus Jesus himself standing there.
It’s a bizarre story, particularly when you set it out step-by-step the way you did there.
I’m quite comfortable accepting that other people have their beliefs, even if I think they’re a little wacky. But when believers try and express those beliefs through legislation that will affect all of us, then I have problems.
I agree completely. Religious people trying to get their beliefs legislated is the worst aspect of religion.
I’m also annoyed by religious people who try to spread their hatred of (among other things) gays, political parties and figures, and science (evolution).
I read the posting guidelines and agree that you are at home and deserve respectt in your own home.
With that in mind I respectfuly ask a question about Bible Zombie which I honestly do not understand. If I saw or heard of dead persons walking all over my city. I would like to either challenge the idea or see if the reports had any merit.
My question is “Do you think a major event can occur and not be refuted / challenged. Either then or now? I wish I could have been alive in that era to hear how persons reacted.
Thank you for your time.
I think the zombies story was one of many fictional or at best exagerrated story elements added through retellings or rewritings of these Gospels over the decades between when Jesus was executed to the time that these Gospels were finally set down in the writings that have come down to us.
There is no evidence that Jesus Christ even existed let alone rose from the dead. The whole idea is nuts. Anyone who believes a person whose birth was announced by angels, had a conversation with Satan and cast out demons to cure diseases actually existed is literally insane.
Maybe Jesus was thinking about making a “Thriller” video…
It’s funny how apologists love to point out how Josephus was a contemporary historian of Jesus’ time and mentioned him “many times” in his writings.
How come Josephus (or any other historian) never mentioned these dead people rising out of their graves and walking the streets?
Anyway, what about Lazarus? And what about the widow’s son in Luke Ch 7 who Jesus raised from the dead?
It seems to me that these men who were DEAD and brought back to life would’ve been a tremendous testimony to the ministry of Christ but they WERE NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN.