Resurrections

Originally posted by Whole Wide World: ↑

"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.

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I'm not really that interested in life after death, in the sense that I've had little control over very much in my life and I have no control over death. If there's nothing then that's fine. If there's something, then I've done the best I could with what I've had to work with.

I don't believe in physical resurrection at all. Jesus did not return in the flesh. He returned in as much that three days after his death His disciples began to teach again as they were taught. The reality of Jesus was His teaching and when after grieving for three days the teaching began again it was as though Jesus had risen from the grave. The rest is embellishment.

When Jesus raised the dead they were dead in spirit.

Those dead who came out of their tombs, this was the tomb of self. They saw the example of Jesus and though they did not join His cause before His death, the example and injustice of His death gave them the courage to be Christians and thus rise from the tomb of self to life.

At death the spirit leaves the body, there is no waiting period for some kind of resurrection. It is like stepping through a veil and the spiritual journey begins immediately.

The day of Resurrection denotes the return of a Jesus or Muhammad like figure and an opportunity to enliven ones soul through a renewed connection with Allah. A connection free of the contamination of 2000 years of Chinese Whispers and false teachings.