Another Big Big Thread of Religious Discussion

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Originally Posted by ZAKtheGeek

I don't know, it seems equally factual to me that the earth is round and that people don't come back to life many hours after having been crucified.

Yes, but it's a storybook and, as Sarah Silverman puts it, Jesus is magic.

However, given the biomechanics involved in animal functionality, it's not impossible to reanimate a corpse. There's an issue with the amount of time between death and resurrection in this case that would have resulted in some severe cellular necrotization, but it could still be doable with the right resources available. It's still not plausible, of course, but it's not fact that it's completely impossible to raise the dead.

But it is, once again, impossible for the Earth to have corners and for the stars to fall from the sky given the physical proportions and distances involved. These sorts of statements do appear to be (if not, as I previously asserted, the result of hallucinogens) meant as metaphor. Which is different from a tall tale, because those involve implausably exaggerated things like virgin births and miraculous resurrections.

I get your point, but your analogy is flawed.