Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 105
Revival or Resurrection? 105 carnal human frame? Did he eternally remain locked up in that body, never to be released again? On the other hand if the soul of Jesus as once again departed from the same body, then was that revival temporary or perma- nent? If he did not remain locked in it then what happened to his body after his second death? Where was it buried and is there any mention of it in any archives or chronicles? It seems that these questions, even if not raised earlier, must have been raised during the later centuries when intense philoso- phical exercises concerning the mystery of Christ as and all about him were witnessed widely among Christian theologians. It appears that some unscrupulous scribe tried to wriggle out of this by interpolating the last twelve verses in the Gospel of St Mark, and falsely attributed to him the statement that Jesus as was last seen ascending to heaven in the same body. The hands of concoction did not spare the Gospel of Luke either, where the clever insertion of the words ‘and he was carried up to heaven’ in 24:51 served the purpose of the interpolator. In this way he put to rest the queries once and for all. At least one mystery of Christian dogma was thus resolved. But alas, at what cost! At the cost of the noble facts relating to the real holy image of Jesus Christ as. The fact of Christ as was thus sacrificed on the altar of fiction. From then on, Christianity continued to proceed unabated and unchecked in the journey of his transformation from facts to fiction. We know for certain that the Jews were unhappy and disturbed at not finding the body of Jesus Christ as (Matt 28:11–15). They wanted to be sure of Jesus’ as death and for that they needed the universally acceptable proof of death, that is,