cognac

Here we are at Easter and Christians claim that Jesus was resurrected, that his physical body was "raised" by God. For a moment, leave rationality behind. Lets assume that supernatural causes are possible and that they do occur. Now, rational explanations are not needed to explain any sort of phenomena, such as the event Christians refer to as the resurrection. Supernaturalism has no "falsifiability" provision. Any alternative explanation of events becomes a possible explanation of events. The resurrection is a supernatural explanation for what started the Christian church. However, if you assume supernaturalism, then any alternative supernatural explanation is equally as valid. There is no reason why one explanation should be true more so than any other.

So here are some alternative supernatural explanations for what Christian believers call the resurrection. Jesus body could have evaporated and then collected together again via osmosis according to the principles of Hx. (It's pronounced "High Ex" and I just made it up -- but given supernaturalism, you can't show me that it isn't true). Jesus could have been a multi-dimensional alien who could slip in and out of dimensions when he chose or take on any form he chose. Maybe demons made up the whole thing and deceived the disciples in order to push them away from their faithfulness to (the Jewish) God, so that Christianity becomes the diversion away from the one true religion.

Or better yet, lets add a little speculation from science. Maybe Jesus' resurrection was the result of quantum world splicing in which the possible world where Jesus died and the possible world where Jesus did not die were spliced together after the point of crucifixion. Maybe deeply emotional and traumatic events cause splicing to occur when the vibrations reach out to those alternative worlds and pull them together. The disciples would have remembered the crucifixion because it was past. But every future event from the moment of splicing onward was actually an event from the alternative world, and in that world there was no body left in a tomb. Thus the disciples would have come to think in terms of resurrection.

The point is, in a supernatural world, you can make up any fantastic story you want and it is just as likely to be true as any other fantastical story. Given supernaturalism, no one can prove that any of those alternative explanations is not true. As long as believers insist on supernaturalism, there is no reason to argue with them based on rational explanations of events.

--Cognac
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