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a b c Savin-Baden, Maggi; Burden, David (1 April 2019). "Digital Immortality and Virtual Humans". Postdigital Science and Education. 1 (1): 87–103. doi: 10.1007/s42438-018-0007-6. ISSN 2524-4868. S2CID 149797460. As we have discussed above, the resurrection has great meaning: it gives “strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow” to believers. As such, the lives of believers will be characterized with a kind of solid joy that goes deeper than circumstance. Shukla, A. (2019). The Politics of Kartarpur Corridor and India-Pakistan Relations. Indian Council of World Affairs, 10, 1-8. Secular and liberal Christian scholarship asserts that religious experiences, [5] such as the visionary appearances of Jesus [6] [7] [8] [note 3] and an inspired reading of the Biblical texts, [9] gave the impetus to the belief in the exaltation of Jesus [10] as a "fulfillment of the scriptures," [11] and a resumption of the missionary activity of Jesus's followers. [6] [12] Endsjø, Greek Resurrection Beliefs, 54-64; cf. Finney, Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife, 13-20.

Avicenna". Encyclopaedia of Islam Online. : Ibn Sīnā, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sīnā is known in the West as "Avicenna". Lord Raglan's Hero Pattern lists many religious figures whose bodies disappear, or have more than one sepulchre. [86] B. Traven, author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, wrote that the Inca Virococha arrived at Cusco (in modern-day Peru) and the Pacific seacoast where he walked across the water and vanished. [87] It has been thought that teachings regarding the purity and incorruptibility of the hero's human body are linked to this phenomenon. Perhaps, this is also to deter the practice of disturbing and collecting the hero's remains. They are safely protected if they have disappeared. [88]Related alternative approaches of digital immortality include gradually " replacing" neurons in the brain with advanced medical technology (such as nanobiotechnology) as a form of mind uploading (see also: wetware computer). [61] De-extinction [ edit ] Smith argues that Mark has integrated two traditions, which were first separate, on the disappearance (from the tomb, interpreted as being taken to heaven) and appearance (post-mortem appearances), into one Easter narrative. [126] [127] According to Géza Vermes, the story of the empty tomb developed independently from the stories of the post-resurrection appearances, as they are never directly coordinated to form a combined argument. [128] While the coherence of the empty tomb narrative is questionable, it is "clearly an early tradition." [128] Vermes notes that the story of the empty tomb conflicts with notions of a spiritual resurrection. According to Vermes, "[t]he strictly Jewish bond of spirit and body is better served by the idea of the empty tomb and is no doubt responsible for the introduction of the notions of palpability (Thomas in John) and eating (Luke and John)." [129] Ehrman rejects the story of the empty tomb, and argues that "an empty tomb had nothing to do with it [...] an empty tomb would not produce faith." [130] Ehrman argues that the empty tomb was needed to underscore the physical resurrection of Jesus. [131] Resurrection of a transformed body [ edit ] Herbert Chanon Brichto "Kin, Cult, Land and Afterlife– A Biblical Complex", Hebrew Union College Annual 44, p.8 (1973) There is research into what happens during [69] [70] and after death as well as how and to what extent patients could be revived by the use of science and technology. For example, one study showed that in the hours after humans die, "certain cells in the human brain are still active". [71] [72] However, it is thought that at least without any life-support-like systems, death is permanent and irreversible after several hours – not days – even in cases when revival was still possible shortly after death. [ additional citation(s) needed]

But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied ( 1 Corinthians 15:12-14, 19). Dierk Lange. "The dying and the rising God in the New Year Festival of Ife", in: Lange, Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa, Dettelbach: Röll Vlg. 2004, pp.343–376. The absence of any reference to the story of Jesus's empty tomb in the Pauline epistles and the Easter kerygma (preaching or proclamation) of the earliest church has led some scholars to suggest that Mark invented it. [note 12] Allison, however, finds this argument from silence unconvincing. [120] Most scholars believe that the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John contain two independent attestations of an empty tomb, which in turn suggests that both used already-existing sources [121] and appealed to a commonly held tradition, though Mark may have added to and adapted that tradition to fit his narrative. [122] Empty tomb and resurrection appearances [ edit ] OK. So, the Scriptures say there is a resurrection. So what? So, another Easter. Another Easter egg hunt. Another chocolate bunny. Another sunrise service where I am shivering in the wet cold when I should be warm and in bed. Another sermon on the resurrection. It is one thing to quote Scripture about resurrection and quite another to believe that Jesus is alive; that death will not hold us in the grave; that life has meaning; that relationships are not wasted by the sinister thief called death; that we will know as we are known; and that if there is a resurrection there is a New Heaven and a New Earth.For the Christian tradition, the bodily resurrection was the restoration to life of a transformed body powered by spirit, [web 3] as described by Paul and the Gospel authors, that led to the establishment of Christianity. In Christian theology, the resurrection of Jesus is "the central mystery of the Christian faith". [2] It provides the foundation for that faith, as commemorated by Easter, along with Jesus's life, death and sayings. [3] For Christians, his resurrection is the guarantee that all the Christian dead will be resurrected at Christ's parousia (second coming). [4] What does Hinduism teach about life after death? - Life after death - GCSE Religious Studies Revision". Weisberger, Mindy (4 October 2017). "Are 'Flatliners' Really Conscious After Death?". livescience.com . Retrieved 2 November 2022.

Though we grieve the fallenness of the world--including the reality of physical death--we also hold on to “hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure” ( Hebrews 6:19) because we are trusting in the promises of the God who said “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life” ( John 3:36). Virani, Shafique (January 2005). "The Days of Creation in the Thought of Nasir Khusraw". Nasir Khusraw: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Belief in the Day of Resurrection ( yawm al-qiyāmah) is also crucial for Muslims. They believe the time of Qiyāmah is preordained by God but unknown to man. The trials and tribulations preceding and during the Qiyāmah are described in the Quran and the hadith, and also in the commentaries of scholars. The Quran emphasizes bodily resurrection, a break from the pre-Islamic Arabian understanding of death. [24] The news spread at once, and the people of the market rushed there. On opening the coffin, they found that the body had vanished, but from high up in the sky they heard the ring of his hand bell. [18] Christianity [ edit ] Steinhart, Eric (1 October 2007). "Survival as a Digital Ghost". Minds and Machines. 17 (3): 261–271. doi: 10.1007/s11023-007-9068-0. ISSN 1572-8641. S2CID 2741620.Mark T. Finney. Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife: Body and Soul in Antiquity, Judaism and Early Christianity. New York: Routledge, 2017. But there are some who say that the Bible never really taught the doctrine of the resurrection. That whole matter of resurrection was something that was invented by Paul or by Peter or by one of the others. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consider three— only three of so many—biblical categorical affirmations of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Let’s begin with the old testament. The Resurrection of Jesus was Prophesied in the Old Testament Christianity started as a religious movement within 1st-century Judaism (late Second Temple Judaism), and it retains what the New Testament itself claims was the Pharisaic belief in the afterlife and resurrection of the dead. Whereas this belief was only one of many beliefs held about the world to come in Second Temple Judaism, and was notably rejected by the Sadducees, but accepted by the Pharisees (cf. Acts 23:6-8). Belief in the resurrection became dominant within Early Christianity and already in the Gospels of Luke and John, included an insistence on the resurrection of the flesh. Most modern Christian churches continue to uphold the belief that there will be a final resurrection of the dead and world to come. For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, [note 7] [4] and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, [note 1] [5] and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. [6] Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. [7] Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. [8] Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. [37]

Edwin Hatch. Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church (1888 Hibbert Lectures).Elisha raises the son of the Woman of Shunem ( 2 Kings 4:32-37) whose birth he previously foretold ( 2 Kings 4:8-16) Dunn argues that the burial tradition is "one of the oldest pieces of tradition we have," referring to 1 Cor. 15.4; burial was in line with Jewish custom as prescribed by Deut. 21:22–23 and confirmed by Josephus War; cases of burial of crucified persons are known, as attested by the Yehohanan burial; Joseph of Arimathea "is a very plausible historical character"; and "the presence of the women at the cross and their involvement in Jesus's burial can be attributed more plausibly to early oral memory than to creative story-telling." [111] Andrew Loke, after replying to various objections against the historicity of the guards at the tomb, argues that "the presence of guards at the tomb would imply that Jesus was buried in a well-identified place (contrary to unburied hypothesis)." [112] Timothy 2:8: "Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead... this is my gospel for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained...". [43]