Resurrection

Many people would have no difficulty in accepting the story of Jesus, if that story ended with his crucifixion and burial. The “happy ending,” so unlike the “realistic” dramas now bleakly in vogue, would be absent. In addition, you would be left with a great story. Perhaps not the greatest story ever told. But at least as good as the stories of all the great heroes who paid for their greatness in the eoin of ultimate sacrifice.

If his story must include a resurrection, there still need be little difficulty. If, say, we could take his resurrection to mean that Jesus was a supreme leader of men around Galilee and Jerusalem and those places: a sort of Jewish Osiris or Palestinian Gilgamesh who survived death and who helped a lot of people with crops and battles during an “extension” period of his life; or if, like Achilles, he was seen by a poet in the land of the shades, after a bit. That would be no more troublesome than good standard mythology. Universally appealing. Very good fad material, by the way; and you don’t throw that away lightly nowadays.

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Malachi B. Martin

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Many people would have no difficulty in accepting the story of Jesus, if that story ended with his crucifixion and burial. The “happy ending,” so unlike the “realistic” dramas now bleakly in vogue, would be absent. In addition, you would be left with a great story. Perhaps not the greatest story ever told. But at least as good as the stories of all the great heroes who paid for their greatness in the eoin of ultimate sacrifice.

If his story must include a resurrection, there still need be little difficulty. If, say, we could take his resurrection to mean that Jesus was a supreme leader of men around Galilee and Jerusalem and those places: a sort of Jewish Osiris or Palestinian Gilgamesh who survived death and who helped a lot of people with crops and battles during an “extension” period of his life; or if, like Achilles, he was seen by a poet in the land of the shades, after a bit. That would be no more troublesome than good standard mythology. Universally appealing. Very good fad material, by the way; and you don’t throw that away lightly nowadays.