Babylon is fallen, is fallen,..Come out of her, My people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4
There are those who "Deny Christ's Bodily Resurrection" heard on the Streets of Babylon....
"New Testament scholar N.T. Wright has waded back into a previous controversy, claiming that belief in the bodily resurrection of Christ is not necessary to be a Christian and that his famously heretical friend who denied nearly every aspect of core Christian doctrine was a genuine Christian, albeit a “muddled” one....he said: "Marcus Borg really does not believe Jesus Christ was bodily raised from the dead. But I know Marcus well: he loves Jesus and believes in him passionately. The philosophical and cultural world he has lived in has made it very, very difficult for him to believe in the bodily resurrection. I actually think that’s a major problem and it affects most of whatever else he does, and I think that it means he has all sorts of flaws as a teacher, but I don’t want to say he isn’t a Christian..... the position where anything like bodily resurrection, that was simply unspiritual. He was basically some kind of a Christian Platonist. And there have been many, many Christian Platonists who just don’t think that the body matters that much......Marcus would say, ‘I believe Jesus Christ rose from the dead.’ And he would then say, ‘I just don’t think this involved his body.’ And so I would say, we need to talk about the meaning of the word ‘resurrection’ in the first century." He concludes that the man who denied nearly every core doctrine and foundational element of the Christian faith, who openly repudiated them and taught others to do likewise, was merely “muddled.”
Protestia
