12-04-2007, 12:56 AM
Shlama Akhi Distazo,
Three Aramaic words: "Qamu", "Nepaqu" & "Alu" - "They arose", "They came out" & "They entered" , make it plain that your theory cannot be correct. These bodies of the saints entered the city under their own power.
The subject of these 3 verbs is "many bodies of the saints that slept". There is no other possible subject in the Aramaic. A fourth verb comes at the end: "Ethkhazay" , "they appeared" - l 'saggyaa "to many".
Once you start explaining away the miracles, where do you stop?
Next you have to explain our Lord's resurrection in the same way: An earthquake occurred (which did happen), and his body was cast out of the tomb; some disciples carried his body upright between them into Jerusalem and presented him to the others as alive, using ventriloquism to impersonate his voice. The disciples fell for (pun intended) the faked resurrection!
But that is just as believable a scenario as the one you have concocted, Distazo, and they are both absolutely ludicrous!
Usually the attempts at rationalization are much harder to believe than the miraculous scriptural accounts, in my humble opinion, and they certainly make mince meat out of the scripture in the process.
Don't you agree?
Blessings,
Dave
Three Aramaic words: "Qamu", "Nepaqu" & "Alu" - "They arose", "They came out" & "They entered" , make it plain that your theory cannot be correct. These bodies of the saints entered the city under their own power.
The subject of these 3 verbs is "many bodies of the saints that slept". There is no other possible subject in the Aramaic. A fourth verb comes at the end: "Ethkhazay" , "they appeared" - l 'saggyaa "to many".
Once you start explaining away the miracles, where do you stop?
Next you have to explain our Lord's resurrection in the same way: An earthquake occurred (which did happen), and his body was cast out of the tomb; some disciples carried his body upright between them into Jerusalem and presented him to the others as alive, using ventriloquism to impersonate his voice. The disciples fell for (pun intended) the faked resurrection!
But that is just as believable a scenario as the one you have concocted, Distazo, and they are both absolutely ludicrous!
Usually the attempts at rationalization are much harder to believe than the miraculous scriptural accounts, in my humble opinion, and they certainly make mince meat out of the scripture in the process.
Don't you agree?
Blessings,
Dave
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