So what the resurrection means in real terms is that it it was all smoke and mirrors, like magicians trick.

David

Thanks for your last two articles on this theme, Peter! As John Dominick Crossan has stated when dealing with a topic like the resurrection: "“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”

When one 'does' theology then one has to deal 'theologically' with the subject at hand. History, cultural-patternism, archeology, and philology have something to add to the subject, but overall, a topic like the resurrection can ONLY be perceived and understand theologically!

Yuri

Grrr... MY "understand" should have read "understood" :-) Time for another vino!

Yuri

Yes Yuri, and like arguing with a mindless uncomprehending broken record that just keeps spouting endless regurgitated rhetoric?

And in spite of endless reinterpretation and revision of the original story, will countenance no other explanation? And typical of a rigid fundamentalist, who owns their own facts?

It's just so tiresome! Why bother? Unless you like wasting precious time?
Rhrosty.

But what about Reality as an unknowable Paradoxical Process?
Or the body as an indefinable non-separate modification of indestructible Conscious Light?
Hence the Enlightenment of the Whole Body
http://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/EWB/lastwords.html
Also:
http://www.dabase.org/illusion-weather.htm
And what is one looking at "out there", or in the Mirror?
http://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/Aletheon/mirrorandcheckerboard995.html

Yuri,
Nice quote from Crossan!
Peter