On 1/1/2014 2:28 PM, Share Long wrote: > Having read the gospel excerpts, I even wonder if > Mary M was the first to see the risen Christ. > "She stayed with him at the cross after the male disciples (except John the Beloved) had fled. She was at his burial, and she is the only person that all four Gospels say was first to realize that Jesus had risen and to testify to that central teaching of faith."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene > Anyway, I think you are right that risen in terms > of the resurrection does not mean hovering. > Jesus, after the resurrection, hovered in the air and then he flew off to meet the apostles in Galilee. The first stage of flying is to hover, then fly. That way, if you are the Christ spirit you don't have to walk with the crowd and bow and scrape. It's a long walk up to Galilee. If you were to rise from the dead as the Christ, would you walk a mile just to meet a bunch of guys that deserted you in your hour of need?
