Harry,
Resurrect= to bring back into use or life.
Resuscitate= to bring back to consciousness or to life. Doctors do a lot of Resuscitation on earth today, in fact almost every day, but we do not write publicly about the patients history. Patient history is supposed to be confidential. In fact you can be taken to court or to jail if you prove to be stupid enough to write about someones disease on a public paper or go to a TV station to say what you did to so and so. Jesus being a healer by then had all the reason to keep everything confidential about Lazarus. By the way X- ray pictures were introduced by A German called Conrad Röntgen who lived between 1845-1923 and was given Nobel price for that in 1901. Jesus lived many, many, many years before Conrad Röntgen existed. May be Jesus had X-ray in his eyes and he could differentiate who could be resurrected and who could not. On Earth today we also know that a lot of people have been presumed dead while they are not yet. The story ( John 11: 41-44) itself is true and we have very little evidence today to speak the opposite, since any good trained doctor can do it even today as we speak.People have been frozen below zero degrees Celsius where almost all organs have stopped functioning and can still be brought back to life. To a non trained person such people are dead and if not given proper medical care they will never wake up. Jesus was a great man. I Think nobody could just invent things for anybody today that he did this and that; first of all what for?; who stands to gain from fantasies which never happened?. And only about Jesus not another man or drunkard who existed by then. Remember there were thousands of human beings by then, so why only on Jesus they decided to write all those things about?. There were even rich people by then who could buy even the media to write anything they wanted about them, there were also very powerful kings, leaders but they never said the same things about them like they did on Jesus, so doesn`t it ring a bell or not still?.
Paul Nyandoto
>>> Harry 13.9.2010 9:38 >>>
Folks,
In John 11 : 41-44 Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. Lets read it together;
Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
There are two things about this story that puzzle me:
We are not told what happened to Lazarus there-after. The Bible is silent about this. Raising someone from the dead is not any mean task. ITS NOT LIKE TAKING COFFEE. If it happened in my village, even estate, we would struggle to interview the man, do a documentary on him, follow his diet, his lifestyle, see whether he ever gets sick. We would do an X-ray on the dude…trust me. His organs would be kept in a lab for years after death. For the record, this man was dead for for days. It makes utter nonsense for the writers of the Bible to focus on the person who performed the miracle, and totally ignore the person who was raised from the dead.
Secondly, why raise someone from the dead, then the person dies at the end of it. At the end of his life? Why? For this miracle to have a sustainable meaning, then Lazarus should have risen to heaven, as opposed to dying. Or better still, he should have lived forever.
My conclusion; Lazarus never rose from the dead , darn it.
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