Steven Carr
January 11, 2005, 03:22 PM
John 11
“But, Lord,� said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.�
Remarkably detailed description of a dead body, repeating stuff everybody would have known already, and nobody would have asked about.
Compare that with how Paul describes a resurrected body to people who demand to know what a resurrected body was actually like.
Paul says :-
'But someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?�'
He never gives first-hand details , saying what people saw, how there were still wounds, how the body could eat , and could be touched, and still had flesh and blood.
It smells suspicious doesn't it? Why doesn't Paul describe what people saw, in anything remotely like the way the Bible describes bodies elsewhere?
Didn't he have any first-hand details?
Compare how John describes a raised body with how Paul does 'The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.'
Surely if one writer felt his audience needed such 'first-hand' details of a resurrected body, then Paul would have given his audience such details if he had known them, especially as they were pressing him to give exactly such details.
“But, Lord,� said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.�
Remarkably detailed description of a dead body, repeating stuff everybody would have known already, and nobody would have asked about.
Compare that with how Paul describes a resurrected body to people who demand to know what a resurrected body was actually like.
Paul says :-
'But someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?�'
He never gives first-hand details , saying what people saw, how there were still wounds, how the body could eat , and could be touched, and still had flesh and blood.
It smells suspicious doesn't it? Why doesn't Paul describe what people saw, in anything remotely like the way the Bible describes bodies elsewhere?
Didn't he have any first-hand details?
Compare how John describes a raised body with how Paul does 'The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.'
Surely if one writer felt his audience needed such 'first-hand' details of a resurrected body, then Paul would have given his audience such details if he had known them, especially as they were pressing him to give exactly such details.