Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 87
Revival or Resurrection? 87 mean the construction and the manufacture of a new brain computer with a completely new set of software. This complexity also relates to the chemistry of the rest of the body of Jesus Christ as. To revive the body, a colossal chemical reconstruction process would have to be put into operation after retrieving all the material lost in the process of decay. With such a great miracle having taken place the question would arise as to who was revived and with what effect? Was it the man in Jesus as , or was it the god in him? This is why we are emphasising the importance of under- standing the person of Jesus as. Whenever Jesus as is known to have faltered and failed to exhibit his superpowers as the Son of God, Christians take refuge in the claim that he faltered as a man and not as a god. So we have every right to question and to clearly define which part in him was man and which was god. The faltering of the man in Jesus as requires a human mind as a separate entity to that of the god in him. When the brain was revived it was the human element in Jesus as which was revived because the ‘Divine’ entity of Jesus as did not require a material brain to support him. For the ‘Divine’ entity it only worked as a receptacle during his previous sojourn on earth, as in the case of a spiritual medium. Hence, the revival of Jesus as would only imply the revival of the man in him, without which the return of his spirit to the same body is rendered impossible. If this scenario is not acceptable then we will face another grave problem of attributing to Jesus as during his earthly life two inde- pendent minds, one of man and another that of god, with the two minds cohabiting the same space but otherwise unrelated and independent. If so, the revival issue will have to be re-examined