Planets Can’t Grow Past the Electric Fence

CEH ^ | June 9, 2009

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“There appear to be two kinds of stories in the bible about people being heard from after they died. One is the sort of thing you read in the little ghost story in 1 Samuel about King Saul, the prophet Samuel, and the "witch of Endor". In that case, a person who most assuredly was deceased i.e. Samuel, appeared to living people and the experience was utterly indistinguishable from that had the person arrived in flesh and blood.” [excerpt]

They knew they were getting a spirit.

And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.

And he said unto her, What form [is] he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he [is] covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it [was] Samuel, and he stooped with [his] face to the ground, and bowed himself.

1st Samuel 28:13,14

“The other sort of story involves two or three people who Jesus brought back from the dead and in those cases, one in which a girl had died minutes aforehand, the body was still servicable and Jesus somehow brought the spirit and body back together. In other words, the second kind of story is similar to what we now call near death experiences.” [excerpt]

Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been [dead] four days. —John 11:39

And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. — John 11:43

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. — John 11:43

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. — John 12:1

Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. — John 12:9

The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record. — John 12:17

“The story about Jesus being seen for a period of 40 days after he died has to be an example of the first kind of story. Jesus body was quite definitely no longer servicable. ” [excerpt]

Samuel's body stayed in the ground, Christ's did not.

Christ said that He would, after three days, be raised from the dead.

His disciples understood that to mean that he would be bodily raised from the dead.

Knowing their thoughts, if He had not meant that He would be physically raised from the dead, and had not corrected what they understood to be true, He would have lied.

FWIW