--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/25/07 3:14:03 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > It *does* conflict with the belief that Jesus > ascended bodily to heaven (as opposed to > spiritually)spiritually)<WBR>, but not all Chri > took his body along.
MDixon, lately when you quote a post and someone replies to your post--at least via the Web interface-- somehow pieces of it get chopped out and garbled, as above. That "<WBR>" code, whatever it is, seems to have something to do with it. The quote looks fine in *your* post, it's only in the reply that it gets garbled. Here's what I actually wrote: It *does* conflict with the belief that Jesus ascended bodily to heaven (as opposed to spiritually), but not all Christians believe he took his body along. > I've always wondered, why would the gross physical body need > to ascend? Many Christians have told of experiences of entering > Heaven and even being in the presence of both the Father and the > Son, yet their bodies were still in the places they left and came > back to after the experience ended. These experiences should be > enough to let people know the mortal coil doesn't ascend, just > the spiritual body. Well, not really. Maybe if you're just visiting, you're allowed to travel light. I think the thing is that if Jesus had left his body behind, it wouldn't look like anything miraculous had happened, since everyone else leaves their body behind as well. What cracks me up about the documentary folks' insistence on their "Theological Considerations" page that Jesus' body having been in the ossuary wouldn't conflict with (at least some) Christians' beliefs, but stay completely mum about what it would do to *most* Christians' beliefs if it were to turn out that the body of Jesus' child with Mary Magdalene had been in one of the other ossuaries. (It's not the potential distress of the Christians that cracks me up, but the way the filmmakers are trying to pretend that Christians *shouldn't* be distressed if the tomb find were to be validated.)
