"During the
Ministry of Jesus on earth, before his death, Jesus commissioned his
Twelve Apostles to, among other things, raise the dead. In the
New Testament, Jesus is said to have raised several persons from death. These resurrections included the daughter of
Jairus shortly after death, a young man in the midst of his own
funeral procession, and
Lazarus, who had been buried for four days. According to the
Gospel of Matthew, after Jesus's resurrection, many of those previously dead came out of their tombs and entered
Jerusalem, where they appeared to many."
The
Book of Revelation also makes many references about the
Day of Judgment when the dead will be raised.
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Seems a bit inconvenient to be resurrected during a funeral procession? I guess if you are cremated you go straight to hell fire?
So if you don't believe, it's just death and burial/cremation and no Torments of the grave, no Resurrection and no Judgement day - or is it? We'll see you in 2117? or whenever the year/hour is for all the believers and non-believers.
106bn in graves to date I think
500bn in sea to 6tn/7tn if you believe in Noah''s flood global/regional?- various calculations.
Levant area big enough
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Difference from Platonic philosophy
In Platonic philosophy and other Greek philosophical thought, at death the soul was said to leave the inferior body behind. The idea that Jesus was resurrected spiritually rather than physically even gained popularity among some Christian teachers, whom the author of
1 John declared to be
antichrists. Similar beliefs appeared in the early church as
Gnosticism. However, in Luke 24:39, the resurrected Jesus expressly states "behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have."
Hinduism
There are folklore, stories, and extractions from certain holy texts that refer to resurrections. One major folklore is that of Savitri saving her husband's life from Yamraj. In the Ramayana, after Ravana was slayed by Rama in a great battle between good and evil, Rama requests the king of Gods, Indra, to restore the lives of all the monkeys who died in the great battle.
Islam
Belief in the "Day of Resurrection",
Yawm al-Qiyāmah (
Arabic: يوم القيامة
is also crucial for Muslims. They believe the time of
Qiyāmah is preordained by God but unknown to man. The trials and
tribulations preceding and during the
Qiyāmah are described in the Qur'an and the
hadith, and also in the commentaries of
scholars. The Qur'an emphasizes
bodily resurrection, a break from the
pre-Islamic Arabian understanding of death.
