Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 54
54 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction believe, then returning to the same body is the most unwise step attributed to him. Was he reborn when he returned to the body that he had abandoned during the hour of death? If this process is only to be described as the revival or resurrection of Jesus as , then the body should also have been eternalized. But what we read in the Bible is a completely different story. According to that story Jesus as was resurrected from the dead by entering the same body in which he had been crucified and that was called his regaining of life. That being so, what would be the meaning of the act of his abandoning the body once again? Would that not be tantamount to a second death? If the first departure from the body was death, then most cer- tainly the second time he is considered to have abandoned the human body, he should be declared eternally dead. When the soul abandons the body first time, you call it death; when it returns to the same body, you call it life after death. But what would you call it when the soul leaves the same body once again never to return—will it be called eternal death or eternal life according to the Christian jargon? It has to be eternal death and nothing more. Contradiction upon contradiction, a very nerve racking experi- ence indeed! If it is suggested that the body was not abandoned the second time, then we have a strange scenario in which God the Father exists as an infinite incorporeal spiritual being while the ‘Son’ remains trapped in the restricted confines of mortal existence.