(September 17, 2019 at 9:05 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: I'm over here giggling at the idea of a naturalistic explanation for an explicitly supernatural event, in a fictional narrative.
Category failure. The natural explanation is that it's in the story as an important detail to the plot, lol.
But Jesus' missing corpse is not 'an explicitly supernatural event'. Bodies go missing for all sorts of reasons. Why is being attempted is a possible explanation as to how an explicitly natural event might be perceived by a gaggle of superstitious, semi-literate religious fanatics to have been supernatural. Happens a lot.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson