Did Jesus Arise from Dead and How?

 

Dear Barry,

 

Thank you for your comment under this article here:

 

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=spARK+OF+LIFE

 

Indeed, nobody this far has tried to explain how Jesus arose from the dead after being crucified? It is a good question I was wondering myself.

 

I have not heard this explained before, either by any church or by anyone. Everyone tried to avoid giving the answer, except all merely believed Jesus arose from the dead which I too believe in faith.  

 

Let me try to offer an explanation. Hopefully I will not be spiritually and scientifically misled in thoughts.

 

But first let us look at these verses moments Jesus died, and also the account when He raised up Lazarus from his grave:

 

“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

 

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

 

Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

 

And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink.

 

The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

 

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

 

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose”

 

(Matthew 27: 45-51).

 

The way I see what was written, Jesus had a soul in Him before releasing it temporarily for some 3 days or less before it was reunited with His dead body just as much as Jesus managed to return the soul of Lazarus to his body after he was dead for 4 days.

 

Jesus Raises Lazarus

 

“Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. 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.

 

Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? 

 

Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead were laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.  And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. 

 

And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.  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: 38 – 44)

 

It was written in the King James Version of the Bible that Jesus gave up His ghost and died. In other versions the word ‘ghost’ was written as ‘spirit’ which to me was His soul, an entity yet to be defined, detected or measured by science.

 

Yet, we know life exist in a living body made up of nucleic acids or DNA, proteins, sugars, hormones, enzymes, electrolytes, muscles and skeletons, etc, to cause them to strangely be able to feed, creep, reproduce itself, breathe, respond to stimuli by themselves, and when it leaves the body all these chemical components that makes up life stopped immediately and become lifeless. There must be something living residing in these life molecules to make them come alive. But what is it?

 

We need to ask ourselves why something that was living moments ago, suddenly dies moments later? The most mystifying question we need to ask is, where did that life disappear moments later?

 

Like matter and energy that cannot be destroyed, but matter can be converted into energy, so neither can time, space and life be extinguished. It has to go somewhere, perhaps returned to the Universe from where it first originated

 

See “Does a soul exist?”

 

See “How Do We Explain if Ghosts Exist?” under “Evidence that Ghosts do not exist” here:

 

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2020/05/evidence-that-ghosts-do-not-exist.html

 

 

When Jesus physically died His soul, ghost or spirit temporary left Him but was reunited with His dead body once again 3 days later in physical form - at least clearly to me here in these verses:

 

Jesus Appears at the Sea of Galilee

 

“After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself. 

 

This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead. (John 21:1 - 14)

 

^“And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

 

And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

 

Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet…it went on till verse 51 where it says “And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven”

 

(Luke 24:36-51)

 

All in Jesus appeared to His disciples at least 10 times in human physical form after His death. See this slide:

 

https://aleteia.org/slideshow/how-many-times-did-jesus-appear-after-his-resurrection/6/

 

The only verse where Jesus told Mary Magdalene

not to touch Him was when Jesus first came out from His tomb

(John 20:17)

 

Most people believe ghosts are some kind of apparition, spectre or the spirit of someone who has departed. Most would agree ghosts are some kind of non-physical non-material beings. Others believe they are restless souls of dead people roaming on earth in certain haunted places. But does life exist after death, and do the dead come back?

 

Here’s some discussion:

 

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2022/08/does-life-exist-after-death.html

 

Almost all believe once someone dies, they do not return anymore, except in a few exceptions when they experienced clinical death during attempts to resuscitate them.

 

In such cases, they suffer temporary clinical death, but not biological death. They are unlike Jesus and Lazarus who came back in bodily form after 3 – 4 days.  

 

In very rare cases there is an occurrence called “Lazarus phenomenon” in which when someone who seems to be dead shows signs of life again, typically several minutes after doctors and paramedics stopped giving them cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and presumed they are dead.

 

In the case of Jesus there were many whom He raised from the dead, such as in Mark 5:21-24, 35-43, Matthew 9:18-26 and in Luke 8:49-56.

 

We read about the 12-year-old daughter of a synagogue leader named Jairus in Capernaum who was raised from the dead. In these cases, their souls were reunited with their dead bodies, but in all other cases, once a person dies, his / her soul leaves the body forever.

 

In Jesus case, His ghost left Him when He was crucified as in Matthew 27:50, but it was reunited with His body once again after 3 days in His tomb when Sabbath was over, first witnessed by Mary Magdalene.

(Mark 16:1–4)

It was the same when Jesus raised up Lazarus and others by bringing their souls to join back with their dead bodies.

 

It is quite apparent to me that Jesus appeared in physical body form again, and not in the form of a spirit or ghost after His death so that His disciples could touch Him and even ate with them, and that His ghost or spirit was actually His indestructible “life energy” residing inside a physical body made up of nucleic acids, proteins, hormones, enzymes, sugars, fats, water, eletrolytes, etc. 

In other words, 'life forces' in a living body is like matter and energy that are transmutable and transformable.

 

I gave this a thought in the bathroom when I went in to bathe a short while ago after reading your comment a few hours earlier, and came out from the bathroom with this answer. 

I hope I am guided to write correctly and truthfully as I always seek God’s guidance first.

 

May this always be so.

 

Amen.