Resurrection - makes no sense

[Foxaèr]

I actually watched the premiere of the first season when it first came out, but I stopped watching it at the time in favor of another show.

I recently started watching it again.

Resurrection

http://youtu.be/RGtNrz8dhV4

The setting is the small town of Arcadia. (Interesting tidbit of information regarding the name of the town: Arcadia was celebrated as an unspoiled, harmonious wilderness.

People who have been dead for years are suddenly returning. The townspeople are becoming understandably concerned, wondering what is going on. They allow their fear of this supernatural event to make them view the newly resurrected people as something other than human.

What makes no sense to me is that these are townspeople who believe in god, the supernatural already. Why would actually witnessing something supernatural turn them into skeptics when they should be thinking it's a gift from god?

Why is it that these god-believing townspeople are skeptical of a miracle they are witnessing firsthand while being unwilling to see the hypocrisy of believing in a god that they cannot experience in any tangible way?

[robvalue]

I think it's because deep down people know their beliefs are bullshit, and are used to "seeing" the supernatural in the natural.

[Aoi Magi]

Unless the pastor approves of it, it is the devils work.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

If one pastor said it was the work of Jesus, and one said it was the devil's handy work, what would they believe?

[robvalue]

Whoever said it in CAPS.

[Alex K]

If one pastor said it was the work of Jesus, and one said it was the devil's handy work, what would they believe?

Oh no, Euthyphro all over again...

[abaris]

If one pastor said it was the work of Jesus, and one said it was the devil's handy work, what would they believe?

Remember the mayhem between the pastors in Needful Things? That's what would happen.

[downbeatplumb]

I actually watched the premiere of the first season when it first came out, but I stopped watching it at the time in favor of another show.

I recently started watching it again.

Resurrection

http://youtu.be/RGtNrz8dhV4

The setting is the small town of Arcadia. (Interesting tidbit of information regarding the name of the town: Arcadia was celebrated as an unspoiled, harmonious wilderness.

People who have been dead for years are suddenly returning. The townspeople are becoming understandably concerned, wondering what is going on. They allow their fear of this supernatural event to make them view the newly resurrected people as something other than human.

What makes no sense to me is that these are townspeople who believe in god, the supernatural already. Why would actually witnessing something supernatural turn them into skeptics when they should be thinking it's a gift from god?

Why is it that these god-believing townspeople are skeptical of a miracle they are witnessing firsthand while being unwilling to see the hypocrisy of believing in a god that they cannot experience in any tangible way?

This sounds like a remake of The Returned a French series from a few years ago.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2521668/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt