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Originally Posted by Basilissa
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I've been thinking about that, especially in the light of James Hutchins' post. Those people were resurrected after an unspecified time buried in graves. Some could have been there for centuries. Did the regenerative process commence at the time of The Crucifixion or was it spontaneous at the moment of Christ's revivification?
In the case of Deborah (were she to have been among the resurrected) that would be over twelve centuries. Quite a lot of tissue to reassemble and hence my curiosity about when that process started. Could it have been during the time when Mary was visiting her cousin? Something happened then. From the historical record:
Luke 1:35, 38-41 The angel answered [Mary] and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God … Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost
The leaping baby was John Baptist, his mother was Mary's cousin. Clearly a rapport existed between John's nervous system and whatever was happening (or about to happen) to Mary. The same vivifying spirit was active then as in those graves later and I do wonder if there was a simultaneous effect on the deceased causing them to start reassembling.
Additionally I've always wondered at what point they regained consciousness? I know that not everyone accepts New Testament events as ever having happened at all but this is a Christian forum and those people would not be Christians. Perhaps they could be Episcopalian bishops or weird Nordic Lutherans, OK, but I can't see what basis they have for their beliefs once they've decided there's nothing historical in The New Testament. It's really quite sad.
But anyway, I don't come into that category and God explains that plague blasted Christians (if there are any) will be resurrected to life eternal. Which is why I thought about Deborah. Would the early signs of future resurrection be present in Christians today?