The report airs Friday, May 20 at 10 p.m./9 Central
Karen L. King, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Harvard Divinity School, argues that the resurrection is not of the physical body.
"I don't believe it was a physical resurrection exactly in the way we understand the body today -we have Jesus walking through walls — those kinds of experiences suggest not the kind of physical body that we would see today. But something that if we have to use our categories would look much more like a visionary experience," King said. However, the Bible says the following:
Luke 24:36 ¶And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
Some of the others interviewed by Vargas include: Lee Strobel, author of "The Case for Christ" and "The Case for Faith" and host of PAX TV's "Faith Under Fire"; the Rev John Shelby Spong, Episcopal Bishop Emeritus of Newark and author of "Sins of the Scripture"; and the Rev. Jerome Murphy O'Connor of the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. (I don't know about these other people, but I do know that John Shelby Spong does have heretical beliefs and writings.)
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