Sunday, October 19, 2014

"a division therefore again among the Jews" - After the Resurrection



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After the Resurrection

Where did Jesus go after the resurrection?  A common explanation is as follows:
First Jesus was in the garden where the tomb was situated. He later went to Emmaus, Galilee and back to Jerusalem. There may have been other places, but these are the ones specifically mentioned. Finally, He ascended into heaven.

http://www.answers.com/Q/Where_did_Jesus_go_after_the_resurrection
But, if Christ Jesus came back to life, why wouldn't he restart His mission again?  Of course, He had to escape from the Jewish authority and Roman troops.  If He repeated the same mission again around Jerusalem, He would have been arrested and crucified again.  In deed, they positioned guards before the tomb where the dead body of Christ Jesus was laid down.

So, what is a reasonable action Christ Jesus should take after the Resurrection?  Should He sporadically show up to His disciples like a guerrilla?  Yes, He actually did it.  But, it could not last long.  Rumors would reach His enemies, and they would send spies, like Judas Iscariot, to His followers and eventually Roman soldiers would attack them or try to capture Christ Jesus again.  Therefore, Christ Jesus should disappear.  And, He actually did it.  Then, where did He go?

There are no concrete and proven evidence about the fate of Christ Jesus after His resurrection and sporadic showing up to His followers for some time after the Resurrection.

However reliable incidents are as follows: Christ Jesus spoke to Paul in the form of pure spirit; for decades Paul and Peter were successful in preaching the Gospel in and outside Palestine; around the time when the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) was set off the Gospels of Mark, Mathew, Luke, and John were written: and despite persecution, Christianity prevailed in the Roman Empire.

So, probably we have to think that Christ Jesus must have helped Paul, Peter, and other followers spread His teaching through the First Jewish–Roman War so covertly like He worked on Paul on his way to Damascus.

In my theory, Christ Jesus went to Rome to write the Q-source, the common underlying document for the four synoptic gospels, or write a Gospel of Mark under the very name of Mark, and He must have helped Titus Flavius Josephus write The Jewish War (c. 75) and Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94).  Then where did He go finally as a human being?

One of my theories is that He traveled to Medina or Mecca to prepare for the future emergence of Islam.  Christ Jesus most probably, pretending to be the angel Gabriel, helped Muhammad (c. 570 – 632) found Islam.







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Joh 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
Joh 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Joh 10:19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.