(September 17, 2019 at 3:23 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: No worries.
Lets try it from the other angle. Assuming that the resurrection was a historic detail would not entail belief that a guy magicked his way into the clouds. It would only assume that the narrative presents some detail about something that happened to someone in history, somewhere.
It's not taken as a historic detail by the people who accept the other historic details. It's taken to be explicitly theological. Not written down to record historic detail, but to reinforce notions about the mechanics of the supernatural in a specific view that became a part of the orthodoxy at a later date.
Okay, got it.
What am I supposed to take away from that? That Christians shouldn't be taking the story of the resurrection literally?
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
