{"id":9433,"date":"2013-10-08T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=9433"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:42:46","slug":"where-did-the-resurrected-jesus-go-questions-that-haunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2013\/10\/08\/where-did-the-resurrected-jesus-go-questions-that-haunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did the Resurrected Jesus Go? [Questions That Haunt]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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This week\u2019s\u00a0Question That Haunts Christianity<\/a>\u00a0comes from Jason, and I love it so, so much:<\/p>\n

Hello Tony, I\u2019ve been reading your Questions that Haunt Series for a while now and I thought I\u2019d submit my own. If I\u2019ve understood what you\u2019ve written correctly, you, like me, are a largely materialist Christian<\/strong>. \u201cSouls\u201d probably don\u2019t exist, metaphysics is largely unfounded speculation, and heaven and hell seem more and more like abstract concepts than real places.<\/p>\n

But also, like me, you seem to still affirm the bodily death and resurrection of Jesus, as well as most, if not all, of his other miracles<\/strong>. I feel a strong pull in this direction but I don\u2019t know how I can honestly live there. It feels like straddling the fence to affirm the miraculous and yet denounce all the metaphysics around it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of all of the issues this might raise though, the one I keep getting hung up on is Jesus\u2019 resurrection. If his resurrection was bodily and we believe that, yet we don\u2019t believe in other \u201cplanes\u201d of existence (a heaven where spirits and angels float around like glowing light bulbs) then where did the resurrected Jesus go?<\/strong> I suppose a similar problem crops up with all of his miracles but for whatever reason they don\u2019t bother me as much. I suppose it is because I hold the resurrection so dearly that the idea of denying Jesus anywhere to lay his resurrected head bothers me the most. Thanks I really enjoy your work, -Jason<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You respond in the comments. I\u2019ll respond on Friday. See all of the past questions and answers here<\/a>, or buy the ebook by clicking below:<\/p>\n

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