An alternate way of looking at the problem of the resurrection is to realize that 2000 years ago the technologically primitive people of the Bible were clueless concerning the functioning of the brain. To explain the baffling existential experience of ideation they resorted to the concept of separating the product of thinking, the ability to recognize the thinker, into a completely unattached and everlasting entity they dubbed the soul. This concept provided them with the mechanism they could use to fabricate the story of this soul or spirit (from the Latin meaning breath) leaving the corporal body and ascending to heaven (which is also a metaphor which precedes Christianity). In effect, this way of looking at the Christian Resurrection posses problems for Christianity as well as for other faiths.
(Posted on March 16, 2007, 7:44 am Pete From Atlanta)
Very even-handed and fair approach to the subject. I was very impressed. You caught the main essence of each group. Thank you!
J.M. Harrison
Portland
La realta morde... E non lasciera nessuno!
