(September 15, 2019 at 7:03 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 15, 2019 at 6:43 am)LastPoet Wrote: I like to take a more pragmatic aproach. Resurection is impossible. After death and in a few hours, the nervous system, including the brain, begins to decay, it becomes liquified. In portugal we have an adage to say when someone runs into trouble, we say: "calm down bro, only death can't be. solved"
To play the devils advocate, perhaps the character in the myth fell to a deep coma and recovered after 3 days. Or that was just all made up.
ETA: or like boru said an amalgamation of older myths.
Yeah, I'm going with 'all made up'. And a hefty dash of plagiarism.
Boru
The plagiarism bit doesn't seem very plausible to me, if only because I know of no myth prior to the Gospels that contains a resurrection account identical to the one found in the Gospels.
You brought up the example of Osiris, but I'm not sure the story is identical enough to the Jesus story for the plagiarism charge to be plausible. In the Osiris story, if I remember it correctly, the dude was chopped up into pieces (by his brother Seth, I think) and scattered all over the world, and his wife Isis had to then go locate his pieces and bring back Osiris by putting his body pieces back together. Something like that.
Now sure there were sons of gods and resurrections in prior myths, but I don't think plagiarism played a factor here (since the stories weren't remarkably identical). It could just be a common human imagery thing.
