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Why the Resurrection is Ridicules

Perhaps the most salient part of the New Testament for Christians is the fact that Jesus rose from the dead after being brutally murdered for daring to challenge the "holy" power and authority of the Sanhedrin. 

But there is absolutely nothing "amazing" about the resurrection, if Jesus was in fact an eternal God. 

Think of it this way: to say that Jesus was just as much God as he was human, is like saying I am just as much a human being as I am a car owner. For God, in other words, the physical human body of Jesus was simply the vehicle he was driving around while on earth.  

To God, then, destroying the physical human "vehicle" that was the earthly body of Jesus would be like someone destroying my car. And while the destruction of my car impairs my ability to drive around town, it has no effect on me as a person. So to, then, would the destruction of the physical body of Jesus have absolutely no effect on an eternal, infinite, immaterial God. 

What's more, Christians often find themselves wrapped in awe every Easter at the power of God to raise Jesus from the dead. 

Besides the fact that Jesus was not the only person who was said to have 'risen from the dead' (so to apparently did Apollonius of Tyana, for example, among others), one is left to wonder why Christians are so impressed with the ability of a God - a God they claim created the entire universe from nothing! - to fix the human vehicle he'd been driving around on earth for a few decades. 

Jesus's body being laid in the grave for three days, in this sense, would be no different to God than me leaving my car at my auto-mechanic's garage over the weekend, because it failed to start. And Christians worshiping an immaterial God for "raising" the physical body of Jesus on Monday is like me worshiping my auto-mechanic for telling me I need a new car battery. 



 

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