Read the whole sentence @wotsup and not just the part that you highlighted that suits your bias.
The subject on this forum started from the Bible, but it is not the only source of information about resurrection. Resurrection Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, which involves the same person or deity coming back to another body. Disappearance of a body is another similar, but distinct, belief in some religions.
With the advent of written records, the earliest known recurrent theme of resurrection was in Egyptian and Canaanite religions, which had cults of dying-and-rising gods such as Osiris and Baal. Ancient Greek religion generally emphasised immortality, but in the mythos a number of men and women were made physically immortal as they were resurrected from the dead. --- The belief in the resurrection was not new in Christ's time and is one held by other religions and well before the resurrection of Christ. You appear to be restricted to the Bible but others are permitted to discuss resurrection beyond the Bible. @wostsup much to his apparent dismay does not set the rules.
