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Note: Do not let these questions produce any doubt in the reader, Jesus most certainly did rise from the dead.
My brother is a med student and also a self-confessed atheist now, but he came at me with some questions that I saw as strange and yet somewhat intriguing...as for, I did not know the answers to the questions, and yet I know there has got to be some understanding of what I feel called to believe.
Note: a given of my faith is that Jesus DID raise from the dead, but these questions caused me to ponder what this faith means...
Okay, so now the questions.
1-Was Jesus' blood immediately/spontaneously re-created in his body? Aka. what happened to the blood that Jesus lost, was it back in him, or did he not have blood in his body and yet he was alive?
2-I know that Jesus still had his wounds, Thomas could put his hand in the nail piercings and his side., so it seems some of the wounds remained, but for example if the muscles, nerves and ligaments were torn, was his hands and feet then working in a way that the body has not ever worked? Let me clarify as my brother did to me, confusing me a little bit...if I cut off my hand, and there was a space between it, and then somehow I could move it again, it would make little sense--and as my brother suggested it almost seems like witchcraft. But with Jesus, my faith calls me not to see it that way, and yet I know the wounds were there, and quite likely cut through some pretty important muscles and nerves, and yet I know Jesus moved his hands/feet.
3-I have always held that when the soldier pierced the side of Jesus he went into the heart, and then water and blood gushed out--some other person in church on Sunday suggested that perhaps it was not the heart, but I am unsure what else he would stick his stake into to make sure Jesus was dead...and Thomas could put his hand in his side, to whatever place that obviously the soldier knew meant that he had to be dead...so was the heart pumping? Did Jesus have a beating heart after he was resurrected?
My simple childish question that I have thought of before is 'were the other scars still on Jesus as well? ' Such as the thrashing before the cross, hence he would have looked like a beat up man even after he was resurrected?
So I guess the basis for a lot of these questions is "what exactly was healed on Jesus's physical body and what was not?"
4-Because I somewhat don't mind showing what I have faith in, I even told my brother about the upper room where Jesus appeared before ascending to heaven--though the doors were locked...and then my bother asked if he was a ghost, and I assured him that scripture says clearly He was not a ghost (because He ate bread or fish I believe) and that it was the actual body that died that was seen walking again after his death.
5-My brother says that people suffer unreversible brain damage within hours of death, did Jesus suffer brain damage? I answered this with a psalm that says that 'God would not suffer his Holy One to see decay"--hence I do not believe that his body was decaying though he was dead/absent from his body.
Funny to me that I have faith and know that it happened but had never understood exactly what I am called to believe...
Just some questions, my brother also has a devout Christian as a friend I think he fears discussing with him about his questions...but I think I will and should suggest his friend show him what his 'medical knowledge' has contributed/shown him about his faith...perhaps he can speak medical hoopla that my brother will understand more than the ramblings of me...
Thanks,
and may God grant wisdom and truth to whoever attempts at least a theory on these questions
tony
My brother is a med student and also a self-confessed atheist now, but he came at me with some questions that I saw as strange and yet somewhat intriguing...as for, I did not know the answers to the questions, and yet I know there has got to be some understanding of what I feel called to believe.
Note: a given of my faith is that Jesus DID raise from the dead, but these questions caused me to ponder what this faith means...
Okay, so now the questions.
1-Was Jesus' blood immediately/spontaneously re-created in his body? Aka. what happened to the blood that Jesus lost, was it back in him, or did he not have blood in his body and yet he was alive?
2-I know that Jesus still had his wounds, Thomas could put his hand in the nail piercings and his side., so it seems some of the wounds remained, but for example if the muscles, nerves and ligaments were torn, was his hands and feet then working in a way that the body has not ever worked? Let me clarify as my brother did to me, confusing me a little bit...if I cut off my hand, and there was a space between it, and then somehow I could move it again, it would make little sense--and as my brother suggested it almost seems like witchcraft. But with Jesus, my faith calls me not to see it that way, and yet I know the wounds were there, and quite likely cut through some pretty important muscles and nerves, and yet I know Jesus moved his hands/feet.
3-I have always held that when the soldier pierced the side of Jesus he went into the heart, and then water and blood gushed out--some other person in church on Sunday suggested that perhaps it was not the heart, but I am unsure what else he would stick his stake into to make sure Jesus was dead...and Thomas could put his hand in his side, to whatever place that obviously the soldier knew meant that he had to be dead...so was the heart pumping? Did Jesus have a beating heart after he was resurrected?
My simple childish question that I have thought of before is 'were the other scars still on Jesus as well? ' Such as the thrashing before the cross, hence he would have looked like a beat up man even after he was resurrected?
So I guess the basis for a lot of these questions is "what exactly was healed on Jesus's physical body and what was not?"
4-Because I somewhat don't mind showing what I have faith in, I even told my brother about the upper room where Jesus appeared before ascending to heaven--though the doors were locked...and then my bother asked if he was a ghost, and I assured him that scripture says clearly He was not a ghost (because He ate bread or fish I believe) and that it was the actual body that died that was seen walking again after his death.
5-My brother says that people suffer unreversible brain damage within hours of death, did Jesus suffer brain damage? I answered this with a psalm that says that 'God would not suffer his Holy One to see decay"--hence I do not believe that his body was decaying though he was dead/absent from his body.
Funny to me that I have faith and know that it happened but had never understood exactly what I am called to believe...
Just some questions, my brother also has a devout Christian as a friend I think he fears discussing with him about his questions...but I think I will and should suggest his friend show him what his 'medical knowledge' has contributed/shown him about his faith...perhaps he can speak medical hoopla that my brother will understand more than the ramblings of me...
Thanks,
and may God grant wisdom and truth to whoever attempts at least a theory on these questions
tony