What people often fail to realise is that the Bible is full of metaphors.
I doubt its authors literally believed Jesus rose from the dead, but rather that part of him lived on in the minds and deeds of his followers; the Resurrection was a literary image representing this. Though after centuries of bowdlerisation, mis-translation and over-literal interpretation many of its subtleties have been lost.
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