The Author may well have understood that there would be well meaning observers and much later, critics who needed to be creative when attempting to understand how somebody who had been crucified until death could live again.
The Source of our very being is never short on answers when inviting each of us to embrace His creation story alive in the life of every human person.
The Biblical Resurrection accounts are not an attempt to explain the survival of human life after death; for the personal testimonies of Jesus' friends speak to meeting with, and speaking with the man they had been with every day over some three years. No mere ghost; not an ethereal presence lacking physical substance. Thomas doubting the reality of the person standing before him placed his fingers into the wounds that Jesus had sustained when nailed to the cross.
Jesus Appears to Thomas
…27Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.” 28Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God!” 29Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”…~John 20
For those of us who believe that with Our Father nothing is impossible, it can be said that resurrection into new life is the welcome for all who follow the call of The Saviour to do as He asks.
The Resurrection was not regarded simply or chiefly as evidence for the immortality of the soul. It is, of course, often so regarded today: I have heard a man maintain that "the importance of the Resurrection is that it proves survival." Such a view cannot at any point be reconciled with the language of the New Testament. On such a view Christ would simply have done what all men do when they die: the only novelty would have been that in His case we were allowed to see it happening. But there is not in Scripture the faintest suggestion that the Resurrection was new evidence for something that had in fact been always happening. The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the "first fruits," the "pioneer of life." He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so. This is the beginning of the New Creation: a new chapter in cosmic history has opened
~ C. S. Lewis, Miracles
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