Christianity QA

Question:

        Even given that, how does a god die?  I understand that the answer to that question varies from mythic framework to mythic framework, but I’m trying to pin Christians down on a single point: if God is ominpotent and immortal, how does he die?  Isn’t that just another contradiction?

    Just just finished defining God as being omnipotent and IMMORTAL. Then how can you ask "how does God die"? If He is immortal He doesn’t die obviously, neither btw. do those who are saved by the Grace of Christ and who will share eternity with Him.     Perhaps you have been reading too much Nietzsche’s "God is dead" stuff?                                   Frank A friend of Jesus, Buddha, LaoTse and all who love Plato was a bore. – Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. – Leo Tolstoy

Response:

writes: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Igen.  But are people getting the point?  The name "Varazslo" means "wizard." Attila — or someone — asked whether I was a black wizard or a white wizard.  I replied that I was a ZEBRA wizard.  Zebras, of course, are both black and white and thoroughly untamable.  I am not a practicing wizard, but I was definitely (tenyleg) born into a family of them, which explains why I never found Christian claims convincing.    More to the point, who verified deaths by crucifixion?  Normally only the most violent criminals or rebels were crucified to set an example for other like-mimded individuals.  Jesus would probably have been stoned in the real, i.e., non-mythical, world and St. John records at least one occasion wherein he almost was.  His real crime, apparently, was causing a disturbance in the Temple, and what that may have constituted is no doubt muted by the evangelists.  Be that as it may, crucified criminals were customarily left hanging at least 24 hours.   Since death usually results from loss of blood, even this was not long enough for some hardy souls.  John asserts that Jesus had already died before he was lanced, and that blood gushed from his dead body — which rarely happens.  In all likelihood the manb was still alive and was later revived – IF, that is, the whole story isn’t woven out of whole cloth, which it very likely was.    Even given that, how does a god die?  I understand that the answer to that question varies from mythic framework to mythic framework, but I’m trying to pin Christians down on a single point: if God is ominpotent and immortal, how does he die?  Isn’t that just another contradiction? Baal

===That is precisely what believers claim, that he DID NOT DIE, or rather, that he did temporarily, but then he ROSE from death.     I find the scenario much more realistic that he never DID die, but woke up from a coma with the help of his Essene friends, who were experts in all the medical knowledge of the tie, in fact they were also called THERAPEUTAE.     It is quite possible that AFTER this, some people BELIEVED that a miracle happened. Possibly even he may have believed that he had died, gone to Hell, visited the Father etc., if he had some Near-Death Experiences while he was in a coma.     Libertarius     *DON

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