Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The missing body/Empty tomb Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 07:26:59 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Perhaps there are no real "Natural Laws." Maybe God is actively involved in his creation at all times, growing trees, and "Natural laws" are a product of God's organization and consistency. Hebrews 1 says that Jesus upholds all things by the word of his power. Even if there were laws, maybe there are so many that we do not and cannot know about, which could explain Philip disappearing and reappearing a long distance away. Maybe God used his own power to do it. Natural law might say that a stone must stay in place. You can pick up the rock with your hand. The rock does not know that you are allowed to violate this law, but yet you do it. Are you a deist? Also, about Jesus walking through the wall, he was physically ressurected, but not exactly like our bodies. It is a glorified body. A guru might be able to pass through a wall because of some demonic spirit who can make him levitate (maybe by picking him up, if you wan to look at it that way) or even make him mose through matter. There is a lot that we do not know. We should not try to impose our limited understanding on an infinite God, to say tht he can and cannot violate certain laws. he knows all the rules and we do not. If there are any rules, outside from the nature of His own character. Link Hudson