RE: Did Jesus decompose?
March 6, 2019 at 6:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2019 at 6:20 pm by Rev. Rye.)
As someone who's read Dostoevsky's major novels, this reminds me of this painting that figures prominently in The Idiot.
When Dostoevsky saw this in 1867, his wife had to drag him away from the painting, lest it inspire an epileptic fit in him. He talked at length about the painting and its implications, about how it could make one lose one's faith. Terentyev says that it's an exhibition of how blind nature can conquer everything, even the most beautiful person to ever live. Prince Myishkin has no answer to that because there really is no pat answer to that (part of why I, atheistic as I am, love such a blatantly Christian author, also, see Brothers Karamazov, Book V, Chapter 4). The only possible answer Dostoevsky could come up with comes from a heavily marked verse on his own dog-eared copy of the New Testament, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
And for those of us who can't accept that, well, the basic facts of decomposition can only say this about the possibility of a resurrection:
![[Image: The_Body_of_the_Dead_Christ_in_the_Tomb_Detail.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/The_Body_of_the_Dead_Christ_in_the_Tomb_Detail.jpg)
When Dostoevsky saw this in 1867, his wife had to drag him away from the painting, lest it inspire an epileptic fit in him. He talked at length about the painting and its implications, about how it could make one lose one's faith. Terentyev says that it's an exhibition of how blind nature can conquer everything, even the most beautiful person to ever live. Prince Myishkin has no answer to that because there really is no pat answer to that (part of why I, atheistic as I am, love such a blatantly Christian author, also, see Brothers Karamazov, Book V, Chapter 4). The only possible answer Dostoevsky could come up with comes from a heavily marked verse on his own dog-eared copy of the New Testament, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
And for those of us who can't accept that, well, the basic facts of decomposition can only say this about the possibility of a resurrection:
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
