Resurrection

pupa16, what was your actual question here? What kind of answer are you looking for?

Are you struggling with whether Jesus actually rose from the dead? Of course He did. The Bible concludes there—it doesn't detail His subsequent movements after the resurrection—but it makes it clear that Jesus rose and is immortal. You can see He lives on today, quite clearly. His message, if you want to call it a philosophy, is divine, which makes it immortal by extension.

Richard Carter4 said:Spot on! It’s like falling into this heavy, terminal slumber! (1 Thessalonians 4:13)

=Death isn't even a thing😉 😬

A dreamless sleep—it's practically an instant, infinite blink of an eye.😁

check this out: www.ascendpress.org
there’s some pretty interesting stuff on here about the resurrection............I guess maybe we can all experience a kind of resurrection, not just one single guy on this planet. I mean, we were all created by the same God, right? So there isn't really a difference between us where it's like, okay, he gets this gift and you don't. I think Jesus just wanted to break free from the, like, "matrix." He was just looking for the truth......
but then those sycophants went and nailed him to a cross. Jesus was honestly such a cool guy.
God bless America and The Pixies:🙏

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Richard Murphy6 says: It’s a fair question. Honestly, I don't know why it keeps gnawing at me. Let's say, for the sake of argument, I actually started believing in the "supernatural." Paramahansa Yogananda touches on something similar, but I really started spiraling after reading that interview with Carlos Castaneda. He basically argues that nobody gives a damn about the Jesus who rose from the dead and ascended into heaven... or something along those lines. I’ve always felt that rising from the dead isn't the only way to "conquer" death—in fact, up until recently, I was convinced it was all just a symbolic gesture. But now? Now I'm lost in the fog again, so I figured I’d try to get some counsel from the experts here at the IMF. 😎

Rising from the dead is the only way to conquer death!

When you die, everything goes. Your soul is mortal and it dies too! (Ezekiel 18:4,20)

The soul and the spirit are two entirely different things!

The soul represents the LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL, while the spirit is the VITAL FORCE!

Only God can restore the SPIRIT—that vital force—thereby resurrecting you! Our very existence rests in the hands of God!
The Son of God, Jesus, said, "I am the resurrection and the life!"

"Do not be amazed by this, for the hour is coming when everyone in the graves will hear the voice of the Son of God and come out!" (John 5:21,28,29)

hail chi! 👍👍👍

I guess your own skills are the only thing that can pull you out of death. I mean, what's even the point of building up an energy body in the East if it just comes at the expense of the astral body? 😍
Just push out all that unconsciousness! Everything else is just preconceptions from a divided mind: God, the devil, filth, darkness... 👍

Where does this whole idea of bodily resurrection actually come from? I’m not talking about Jesus' teachings specifically, but the theory that we all rise again in physical bodies to wander the world alongside deer and tigers—all of whom are suddenly peaceful and won't fight or eat each other, though maybe we'll still have the occasional skirmish, which is fine I guess 🤣 😬. Honestly... even looking at how aggressive people are becoming in places like India, just imagine if everyone who ever died came back; most would probably just end it all immediately 🤣
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Now, I'm no Bible expert... I was just watching one of those cheap DVD movies about Paul that you see in bargain bins, and I think it showed that the Pharisees believed in it, while the other group (the Sadducees, I think) argued there was no basis for it in the Torah. Since Paul was a Pharisee, he likely took that foundation, layered on Christianity plus Jesus' resurrection, and ended up with this horror story about a literal zombie apocalypse. 😱

And did Jesus even mention this? (Meaning the Gospels, which aren't necessarily a perfect transcript of his words anyway). I don't recall him saying anything besides mentioning the Kingdom of Heaven, which actually seems to contradict the idea of a bodily resurrection. It must make things pretty difficult for theologians trying to reconcile a disembodied heavenly existence with a physical resurrection 😁

I think the Gospel of Thomas mentions a lot more things that act as parallels to his resurrection.
Resurrection is basically just the "Heart" in action. It isn't some mystical thing at all. ☕

Just get in touch with your own Chi—if anyone actually manages to do that—and that’s really all there is to it. 😍

Sean Martinez4 said:I think the Gospel of Thomas mentions a lot more things that act as parallels to his resurrection.
Resurrection is basically just the "Heart" in action. It isn't some mystical thing at all. ☕

Just get in touch with your own Chi—if anyone actually manages to do that—and that’s really all there is to it. 😍

Could you please explain what Chi is?

Whether you call it chi, qi, mana, prana, or just life force—basically that whole concept of sexual energy. 😍

Sean Martinez4 said:Whether you call it chi, qi, mana, prana, or just life force—basically that whole concept of sexual energy. 😍

basically everything😍

Nah, I don't think all of that is true. 😍

Sean Martinez4 said:Nah, I don't think all of that is true. 😍

nothing left to say😍 😍

So, I guess you just don't get the resurrection formula, fufa: 2=0 👍

Sean Martinez4 said:Whether you call it chi, qi, mana, prana, or just life force—basically that whole concept of sexual energy. 😍

Look, chi isn't just sexual energy. Life force isn't strictly sexual energy either. Sure, chi *can* be sexual energy, but generally speaking, it’s way more than that.
The problem with that sentence is that word "or." It's not an "either-or" situation because they aren't the same thing; they're all just different facets of one larger energy.

Nancy Thompson3 said:Look, chi isn't just sexual energy. Life force isn't strictly sexual energy either. Sure, chi *can* be sexual energy, but generally speaking, it’s way more than that.
The problem with that sentence is that word "or." It's not an "either-or" situation because they aren't the same thing; they're all just different facets of one larger energy.

You honestly have no clue. Maybe go sign up for some nerd school if you're trying this hard to fit in where you don't belong. 😬
You aren't part of any kind of energy. 🤣 🤣 🤣

Richard Murphy6 said:Do you guys actually buy into this?
Is it even worth losing sleep over?
What’s your gut feeling on the whole idea?
Does this show up in other spiritual paths besides Christianity? Like, was Jesus the only one to ever experience resurrection, or is there more to the story?
I used to think the whole "resurrected body" thing was just total nonsense—childish stuff, really—but now I'm just spinning my wheels trying to make sense of the doctrine. Is there any connection to that bacterium discovery by Dr. Radman that everyone was buzzing about in the news and seeing all over the headlines lately?
Why is this stuck in my head like this?
Thanks for jumping in on this! Everyone is welcome to join the conversation!

bodies are resurrecting... in a sort of secondary beat, every single day... consciousness is constantly re-embodying itself, taking shape over and over... Richard Murphy6 totally missed the mark when it comes to that timing... just like ambereagle642... and every other "individual" phenomenon out there!

The real question hanging over all of this is; who am I? Am I truly, actually this defined, separate little individual? 🙄 😁 ...I mean, do I even exist at all? 🙄

ambereagle642 said:bodies are resurrecting... in a sort of secondary beat, every single day... consciousness is constantly re-embodying itself, taking shape over and over... Richard Murphy6 totally missed the mark when it comes to that timing... just like ambereagle642... and every other "individual" phenomenon out there!

The real question hanging over all of this is; who am I? Am I truly, actually this defined, separate little individual? 🙄 😁 ...I mean, do I even exist at all? 🙄

There is no "I." ☕

Sean Martinez4 said:You honestly have no clue. Maybe go sign up for some nerd school if you're trying this hard to fit in where you don't belong. 😬
You aren't part of any kind of energy. 🤣 🤣 🤣

😁 😂

wearyowl29 said:But let's break this down: what does it actually mean to conquer death? And why is death even framed as something we need to defeat in the first place?

Life and death are both beautiful—each carries its own kind of grace.
There’s no reason to live in fear of death, nor is there any point in trying to fight it. When the time comes, you just have to let it happen...

Sean Martinez4 said:You honestly have no clue. Maybe go sign up for some nerd school if you're trying this hard to fit in where you don't belong. 😬
You aren't part of any kind of energy. 🤣 🤣 🤣

Exactly. I’ll go ahead and sign up for that bootcamp, while you're already busy teaching the class.
You really haven't got a shot at understanding energies. CHI isn't about sexual energy. It’s universal. Sex is just what those shallow kids obsess over—kids who don't have anything else going for them besides whatever luck they were born with.

If you actually had something productive happening in your life, I guess sex wouldn't be the only thing occupying your brain. Maybe try picking up a book once in a while. There's plenty of... time.

Richard Murphy6 said:😁 😂

Isn't it just wonderful? To latch onto someone else, laugh along, and act all big and important without actually having an original thought in your head? Ha, MAGA? I get it, though. It’s definitely easier that way. You just sit there, laughing, thinking about absolutely nothing, and maybe—just maybe—someone will mistake you for being smart.
Unfortunately, this time, the joke is only on you two, because everyone else is (literally) speechless.