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This in turn led to a change in the perception of what resurrection actually means, because now you had the resurrection of the old body with all its blemishes and flaws. Which in turn brings lots of new problems, like what happens when cremated or otherwise severely injured during death. I doubt t...

If Jesus lived and died then belief in a spiritual resurrection could not have made his dead body disappear. The issue is to avoid confusing modern notions of "spiritual" with ancient notions. There is a difference between sarx (flesh), soma (body), pneuma (spirit, breath, wind) overlapping somewha...

It appears to me that the author of gMark knew he was writing fiction but wanted his readers or audience to believe that he was writing history. The author masked his fiction by claiming or implying his invented story was a product of supposed prophecies in Hebrew Scripture and that his Jesus was t...

Paul talks about various gospels. Not sure which fits. The following is a non-exhaustive list: * Gospel of God (Rom 1:1, Rom 15:16, 2 Cor 11:7) * Gospel of Christ (Rom 1:16, Rom 15:19, Gal 1:7, 1 Cor 9:18, 2 Cor 2:12, 2 Cor 4:4) * 'My' gospel (Rom 16:25, Gal 1:11) * 'Our' gospel (2 Cor 4:3) * Gospel...

There is also some quote by some ancient historian, which is relevant, but I can't remember where it's from. If I remember correctly, this historian writes openly something to the effect that he personally constructs the speeches in his history work in order to convey the historical person's intent...

It appears to me that the author of gMark knew he was writing fiction but wanted his readers or audience to believe that he was writing history. The author masked his fiction by claiming or implying his invented story was a product of supposed prophecies in Hebrew Scripture and that his Jesus was t...

There is also some quote by some ancient historian, which is relevant, but I can't remember where it's from. If I remember correctly, this historian writes openly something to the effect that he personally constructs the speeches in his history work in order to convey the historical person's intent...

The three other gospels in the NT have even more explicit evidence that they also want to present historical events. Luke explicitly presents his story as history writing in his introduction, when he says he wants to do the same thing that "many" othes have tried to do, i.e. to write an "orderly ac...

Buddha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha "Legend has it that, on the night Siddhartha was conceived, Queen Maya dreamt that a white elephant with six white tusks entered her right side,[93][94] and ten months later[95] Siddhartha was born... The infant was given the name Siddhartha (Pāl...

Some other passages that might help on that idea: Num 21:7 Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD to take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people. 8 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake ...