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Chili · 01-27-2006, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Julian

Yeah, I see ωφθη for all of them. But that would mean that everybody saw only an apparition and not the fleshy Jesus, right? It is the same word for Peter (here κηφα) so no reason to believe that it was a physical appearance.

Julian

But if the child that was born is the Christ (messiah) what makes you think that the person called Jesus even has a body to start with?

Didymus · 01-27-2006, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Julian

This is simple math. If we have one person claiming there were 500 witnesses, how many witnesses do we have?

A) 0
B) 1
C) 500
D) 501

You left out "It's an utterly meaningless and unreliable statement."

The most interesting thing about that list of appearances in Corinthians is that he doesn't tell us what the interval was between the Crucifixion and those sightings. He probably didn't care, since the important thing was that it happened ("according to scripture," of course), not when it happened.

Didymus

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