Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 102
102 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction had to admit ultimately that the verses in Mark and Luke are additions without a foundation in the original texts. ♣ What Happened to Jesus’ Body? A closer critical examination from the point of view of common sense and logic reveals further absurdities inherent in the episodes of the Crucifixion and the Ascension as presented by the Chris- tians of today. As far as the question of Jesus’ as return to his human body is concerned, enough has been said. We only want to add to the issue of what might have happened to that body when Jesus as finally ascended, if he ever did. When confronted by the question as to what happened to the body of Jesus Christ as , it is suggested by some Christians that as he ascended to his heavenly Father his carnal body disintegrated and disappeared in a glow. This raises a fundamental question. If the departure of Jesus as from the human body was to result in such an explosive event, why did it not happen at the instant of his first reported death? The only reference we have in the Bible to Jesus’ as death is when he was still hanging on the cross and in the words of St Matthew ‘he gave up the ghost’ Apparently, nothing hap- pened other than a smooth departure of the soul from the body. Are we to assume that he did not die upon the cross after all, because if he had left the body, it should have exploded in a ♣ New World Translation.