Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: John_Graves@cellbio.duke.edu (John Graves) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The missing body/Empty tomb Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 08:17:03 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Duke University Medical Center Lines: 34 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jsast@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Johann) writes: > Our Lord specifically says after his appearance, "Why are you > troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See me hands and my > feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and > bones as you see that I have." (Luke 24:38-39 RSV) > The same passage claims that the savior took a piece of fish and ate it > in front of the disciples. Yet, Revelation 7:16 clearly states that > in our heavenly forms we "shall hunger no more". How do you reconcile the > two? I was struck while reading this part of the discussion with an idea that had never occurred to me before and which I've never seen mentioned, which is If Jesus was dead when taken from the cross and prepared for burial, then was the body of Jesus God incarnate or had God left the body, which strikes of modalism and certainly Aristotlian thought, or was the Christ still present in the dead body. For those who believe in the Shoud of Turin as being the burial wrap of Christ, was the image caused by a coronal event which may have been the return of God to the body? Or did the body accompany Jesus's spirit to Hell and back (as it apparantly did to Heaven according to the accounts in Acts and especially the Luke quoted above)? If the body was Christless during the post crucifixion period could it also have been Christless at conception? John Allan Graves Unitarian Universalism Duke University An inclusive religion! and all its components () including the Divinity School, \__/ disavow anything I say. II