This is just yet another reason to dismiss the biblical fables. These fables require that physical bodies be raised from their graves in order for souls to ascend to heaven.

Jesus supposedly physically rose from his grave and his physical body then ascended to heaven.

Here Matthew speaks of many saints being risen from their graves as zombies at the time of the supposed resurrection of Jesus.


Matthew 27:

[50] Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
[51] And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
[52] And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
[53] And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.


Notice several things in the writings of Matthew here.

First, Jesus cried out in a loud voice and then "yielded up the ghost". In other words, he died, or his spirit left his body. That's what Matthew was attempting to say here.

But then he writes about the earth quaking and rocks renting and graves are physically open, and out of the graves came the bodies of saints which slept but now have arisen.

There's all manner of problems with this line of thinking. For one thing, spirits (or souls) would need to remain with a physical carcass until they are physically removed from their burial site. Which would required the opening of the graves.

These physical bodies are then transferred to heaven to be repaired, rejuvenated or, possibly have the spirits or souls detached from them there? Who knows? It's a silly myth.

Also, this begs the question of what happens to those people who were cremated or otherwise had their bodies destroyed beyond any recognizable physical form? Are their spirits or souls destroyed in that process?

I think MOST PEOPLE visualize an invisible soul or spirit simply leaving a body at the moment it dies. Just like even Matthew himself describe Jesus as having "Yielded up the Ghost"

Matthew is not the only one who thought like this:


Ezek.37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.


This is just the superstitious way that people thought back then. They believed that the soul is locked in the body until some God comes along and retrieve's it.

If there is any truth to spirituality at all, the most likely truth is that the spirit leaves the body at the time of death.

So these ancient fables written by these Israelites are clearly just the imagination of men. They're man-made mythologies. The Bible is a collection of myths and fables made up by men. And yes, these myths and superstitions were indeed written about their lifetimes, and thus they would still contain some historical truths. For example, an actual man named "Jesus" or whatever, probably did have a ministry of love and was wrongfully crucified, etc., etc., etc.

But that doesn't automatically make every single rumor that came out of that episode true.

Jesus didn't "die* on the cross. He gave his entire life teaching us the laws of our father. He went through the physical and emotional pain to do as such. In the end the people he was sent to save hung him on a cross and crucified him. If Jesus wouldn't have come to earth he would never had to have felt that pain. That is where the sacrifice is. He sacrificed himself to go through the pain he didn't have to so that we may receive salvation.