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Marcus Borg<\/a>, Kimberly Winston<\/a>, and Jim Naughton<\/a> all raised the question of whether Christians need to believe that Jesus rose bodily from the dead. Their conclusions are different<\/a>, in interesting ways. What do readers of this blog think?<\/p>\n

Of related interest, Mark Goodacre shared<\/a> a video of an interview Karen King recently gave<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/ehrmanblog.org\/critique-of-the-very-reverend-robert-barron\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bart Ehrman<\/a> responded to someone who seemed to have reviewed his latest book without reading it.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonecartoons.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/3205\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/04\/resurrection-of-the-daleks.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23101\" width=\"591\" height=\"470\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/04\/The-Easter-Dalek.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23102\" width=\"591\" height=\"470\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Borg, Kimberly Winston, and Jim Naughton all raised the question of whether Christians need to believe that Jesus rose bodily from the dead. Their conclusions are different, in interesting ways. What do readers of this blog think? Of related interest, Mark Goodacre shared a video of an interview Karen King recently gave: And Bart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":23101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[1024,2395,2936,4093,6067,10276],"class_list":["post-23099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-bart-ehrman","tag-daleks","tag-easter","tag-gospel-of-jesus-wife","tag-karen-king","tag-resurrection"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Easter Approaches<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marcus Borg, Kimberly Winston, and Jim Naughton all raised the question of whether Christians need to believe that Jesus rose bodily from the dead. 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