[Fichori]

“If you want dead bodies walking around …” [excerpt]

No, I'm not talking about dead bodies walking around.

I'm talking about LIVE bodies walking around that were previously dead but are no longer dead.

[varmintman]

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.

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.

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.