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Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor
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.
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This is an interesting question and I wonder whether the answer is that they did not recover consciousness? The verse talks about
bodies which
arose and
appeared to many. Based on the description, they seem not to be chatting among themselves nor with the living.
Maybe they were just animated but soulless bodies in different states of decomposition* that were hanging around in celebration of Jesus' death and resurrection?
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* It would have been quite a lot of decomposition for Deborah, although there's a chance she would have still some desiccated flesh or even some chunks of hair, if she had been buried in a very arid environment.