Benjamin Cain
Jul 11, 2023

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What I'm arguing is that the Christian view of Jesus's resurrected body is mixed because the interpretations had various motives. If his resurrection were mainly physical, his brain would have eventually deteriorated, turning him into the full, Romero-style zombie. It's just that he didn't hang around on Earth long enough for that to happen.

But sure, zombies are often portrayed as soulless and brain dead. Yet if Jesus's resurrected body had been magically reunited with his spirit, rather than just physically resuscitated, why would that body still have had its wounds? If his resurrected body retained its wounds, his brain should have retained its degradation from being dead, which would have affected his personality.

The Christian conception of resurrection is necessarily as inconsistent and arbitrary as the standard zombie fiction.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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