Resurrection

:This article is about the religious meaning of the word "Resurrection". For other meanings see Resurrection (disambiguation).

Religious examples

While the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the foundational beliefs of Christianity, accounts of other resurrections also figure in religion, myth, and fable. "enturies before the time of Christ the nations annually celebrated the death and resurrection of Osiris, Tammuz, Attis, Mithra, and other gods" http://www.2think.org/hundredsheep/bible/library/myth.shtml.

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Christianity - Religion - Myth - Fable

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Pagan

Examples of a resurrected deity are Syrian and Greek worship of Adonis; Egyptian worship of Osiris; the Babylonian story of Tammuz; and rural religious belief in the Corn King.

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Deity - Adonis - Egypt - Osiris - Babylonian - Tammuz - Rural - Corn King

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Accounts of Resurrections in India

Other accounts of resurrections are as follows:

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• ¹Lahiri Mahasaya raised Rama a friend of Sri Yukteswar to life.
• ² Lahiri Mahasaya himself resurrected.
• ³ A guru by the name of Swami Sri Yukteswar.
• ⁴ While attending a conference, Walter Cowan was pronounced dead on the morning of December 25, 1971 of a heart attack. Later in the day, he was found sitting up in a hospital bed alive raised to life by Sai Baba. Walter recounts witnessing Sai Baba convincing a council to let him live again to perform a purpose.

Christian

In the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus is said to have raised several persons from death, including the daughter of Jairus shortly after death, a young man in the midst of his own funeral procession, and Lazarus, who had been buried for three days. At the moment of Jesus' death, tombs open, and many who are dead waken. After Jesus' resurrection, many of the dead saints come out of their tombs and enter Jerusalem, where they appear to many, according to the Gospel of Matthew.

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New Testament - Bible - Jesus - Funeral - Lazarus - Saint - Jerusalem - Gospel - Matthew

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Resurrections are credited to Christian apostles and saints. Peter raised a woman named Dorcas (called Tabitha), and Paul restored a man named Eutychus who had fallen asleep and fell from a window to his death, according to the book of Acts.

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Apostle - Peter - Paul - Window - Acts

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The Virgin Mary is also believed by some Christians to have been taken bodily into heaven, after her death (this belief, the Assumption of Mary, was made dogma in 1950 by the Roman Catholic Church). In one tradition, Mary's assumption takes place at Ephesus.(See Note 3.) Here, she lived out her later years, under the care of the apostle John. There have been many claims through the centuries of people seeing Mary.

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Virgin Mary - Heaven - Assumption of Mary - Dogma - Roman Catholic Church - Ephesus

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In the Tanakh (also called by Christians the Old Testament), Elisha is said to have raised a young boy from death. However, all of these persons who had been raised from the dead, are traditionally held to have eventually died. Also of interest, are the Biblical accounts that Enoch and the prophet Elijah were removed into the presence of God without experiencing death, and the traditional belief that the grave of Moses cannot be found, because the prophet was raised from the dead. Both Moses and Elijah are said to be seen with Jesus during the Transfiguration. There is also Ezekiel's vision of the valley of dry bones being restored as a living army, followed by a prophecy that the house of Israel would one day be brought out of their graves to live in the land of Israel.

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Tanakh - Old Testament - Elisha - Enoch - Elijah - Moses - Transfiguration - Ezekiel

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Since Christianity is largely derived from Judaic sources, it is worthwhile to point out that Judaism insists that belief in the Revival of the Dead is one of the cardinal principles of the Jewish faith. A famous Jewish halakhic - legal authority, Maimonides, set down 13 (thirteen) main principles of the Jewish faith according to Orthodox Judaism, and Resurrection is one of them, which is printed in all Rabbinic prayer books to the present time. It is the thirteenth principle and states:

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Christianity - Judaic - Revival of the Dead - Jew - Halakhic - Maimonides - Orthodox Judaism

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• "I believe with complete (perfect) faith, that there will be techiat hameitim - revival of the dead, whenever it will be God's, blessed be He, will (desire) to arise and do so. May (God's) Name be blessed, and may His remembrance arise, forever and ever"

At the time of Jesus, there were debates between the Pharisees, who believed in the future Resurrection, and the Sadducees, who didn't, over whether or not there was immortality - and thus over whether or not there was an afterlife, or could be a general resurrection. In these matters, Jesus was closer to the opinion of the Pharisees. Most Christian churches teach that there will be a general resurrection of the dead at "the end of time".

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Pharisees - Sadducee - End of time

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