(December 25, 2015 at 5:07 pm)Delicate Wrote:(December 25, 2015 at 4:06 pm)Jehanne Wrote: People do not rise from the dead; that's our experience. Once you're declared to be clinically dead, absent a mistake, you remain dead. In the case of Jesus, no medical doctor was on the scene to pronounce clinical death; we have no death certificate. Having said that, I think that Jesus did die, and any so-called "visions" of him after that were bereavement visions, which got embellished over time.People usually don't rise from the dead. That's consistent with what Christians believe.
We just don't believe it's impossible. And by the way, quantum mechanics says the same thing.
As for the visions, that interpretation doesn't make sense. Are your saying it's a mass hallucination
You have no evidence that there was a "mass" to begin with. Large numbers of individuals may have claimed to have "seen" the postmortem Jesus at the same time, and later on, simply combined and embellished their experiences after that. The so-called "Miracle of the Sun" is an example of this; disparate accounts of individuals who claimed to have seen the Sun "dance" in the sky, while others claimed to have seen nothing at all, while others still vehemently denied that anything at all happened. And yet, "some doubted" (Matthew 28:17) speaks volumes as to the fact that nothing at all happened in the case of Jesus. After all, if Jesus truly rose from the dead then there should have been no doubts whatsoever as to that "fact".
