Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 82
82 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction disciples, they could not hide their fear of him because they believed him to be not Jesus as himself, but a ghost of Jesus as. Jesus Christ as understanding their difficulties dispelled their fears by denying being a ghost, asserting he was the same Jesus as who was crucified and even invited them to examine his wounds, which were still fresh (John 20:19–27). His appearance to his disciples etc, by no means established his revival from the dead. All that it established was simply his survival from the throes of death. As if to remove any misunderstanding that might still have lurked in their minds he asked them what they were eating. When he was told that they were eating bread and fish he asked for some of it because he was hungry and ate some (Luke 24:41– 42). That certainly is a proof beyond a shadow of doubt against his revival from death, that is, a revival of the nature of a human being having died once and brought to life again. The problems arising out of such an understanding of the revival of Jesus Christ as would be two-fold. If Jesus as was still the god-human species, as he is claimed to have been before his crucifixion, then he could not have got rid of the man inside him. This presents a very complicated and problematic situation. What did death do to him, or them, that is the man in Jesus as and the god in him? Did the souls of both man and god depart together and return to the same earthly body again, having visited the same hell together, or was it only the soul of the god in Jesus as which returned to the human body without the soul of man? Where did that soul disappear to, one is left wondering. Was his journey to hell a journey of no return, while the godly soul in him was confined therein only for three