(January 30, 2021 at 4:50 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: This should have taken place just after the Crucifixion. That would have been Biblically accurate.
Matthew 27:52-3 Wrote:52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints (God’s people) who had fallen asleep [in death] were raised [to life]; 53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered the holy city (Jerusalem) and appeared to many people.
Um what? Lazarus is a zombie before the Jesus character dies. Even outside the story of Jesus the trop of rising from the dead points out that the motif is not original. In fact, rising from the dead motifs existed way before Christianity.
