Are Resurrected People Zombies?
Apr 1, 2024 13:18:29 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Apr 1, 2024 13:18:29 GMT -5
Are Resurrected People Zombies?
But the concept has been expanded to include a far more sinister aspect:
This question was semi-humorously suggested during a conversation between the astrophysicist Degrass Tyson and a comedian who brought it up in relation to Lazarus, a man that Jesus had resurrected, and then in reference to Jesus himself.
So the premise clearly seems to be that if a human is resurrected, then the term zombie, with all its many negative connotations, is justifiably applicable. But is that really the case? Are the people mentioned in the Bible who were resurrected and those who are promised a resurrection actually zombies? Well, let's consider what being a zombie really entails.
So the premise clearly seems to be that if a human is resurrected, then the term zombie, with all its many negative connotations, is justifiably applicable. But is that really the case? Are the people mentioned in the Bible who were resurrected and those who are promised a resurrection actually zombies? Well, let's consider what being a zombie really entails.
Zombie
a
: a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated
b
: the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body
2
a
: a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead
especially : AUTOMATON
b
: a person markedly strange in appearance or behavior
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zombie
a
: a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated
b
: the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body
2
a
: a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead
especially : AUTOMATON
b
: a person markedly strange in appearance or behavior
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zombie
But the concept has been expanded to include a far more sinister aspect:
A new version of the zombie, distinct from that described in Haitian folklore, emerged in popular culture during the latter half of the 20th century. This interpretation of the zombie, as an undead person that attacks and eats the flesh of living people, is drawn largely from George A. Romero's film Night of the Living Dead (1968)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie
Their Characteristics Do Not Match
So in order for Jesus or any of the resurrected ones to fall into these zombie categories, they would have had to have been mindless yet murderously inclined, Neither Jesus nor any of the resurrected ones, such as Lazarus, manifested any of these gruesomely disturbing characteristics such as being totally obsessed with murder and consuming human flesh.
Instead, the resurrected elicited no fearful reactions, but were accepted by their families and by the community and lived their lives normally from that point onward. As for Jesus himself, the account describes him as normal as he had been prior to his resurrection. So a reference to them as zombies is merely a Satanically inspired effort to denigrate the biblical account.
Instead, the resurrected elicited no fearful reactions, but were accepted by their families and by the community and lived their lives normally from that point onward. As for Jesus himself, the account describes him as normal as he had been prior to his resurrection. So a reference to them as zombies is merely a Satanically inspired effort to denigrate the biblical account.