Jesus wasn't the only religious figure who had a bodily resurrection (allegedly)

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What makes Jesus unique was the fact that he had a bodily resurrection and conquered death.

According to Wikipedia, there appears to be other people from different religions that have done the same thing. Resurrection - Wikipedia

In particular, there are 2 examples from Zen Buddhism

Fuke
“No, not today. Tomorrow, I shall go to the South Gate to enter transformation (death).” And so for three days. Nobody believed it any longer. On the fourth day, and now without any spectators, Fuke went alone outside the city walls, and laid himself into the coffin. He asked a traveler who chanced by to nail down the lid.

The news spread at once, and the people of the market rushed there. On opening the coffin, they found that the body had vanished, but from high up in the sky they heard the ring of his hand bell."

Bodhidharma
Three years after Bodhidharma’s death, Ambassador Sòngyún of northern Wei is said to have seen him walking while holding a shoe at the Pamir Heights. Sòngyún asked Bodhidharma where he was going, to which Bodhidharma replied “I am going home”. When asked why he was holding his shoe, Bodhidharma answered “You will know when you reach Shaolin monastery. Don’t mention that you saw me or you will meet with disaster”… At Shaolin Monastery, the monks informed them that Bodhidharma was dead and had been buried in a hill behind the temple. The grave was exhumed and was found to contain a single shoe. The monks then said “Master has gone back home” and prostrated three times: “For nine years he had remained and nobody knew him; Carrying a shoe in hand he went home quietly, without ceremony.”

Thoughts on this?
 
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This is my thought as well.

In both of these cases, the person who was supposedly resurrected was never seen again, apart from by one or two of his followers. Jesus appeared to hundreds.

I also highly doubt these people went to their (painful) deaths singing the praises and glory of the resurrection of their holy people.
 
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Yeah, and also what exactly would that prove? That other religions are similar to Christianity? You know, for the people that keep accusing Christianity of ripping off Pagan religions, it would be nice to p(name removed by moderator)oint which Pagan religion we’re supposedly ripping off. I’ve heard Roman, I’ve heard Greek, I’ve heard Egyptian, I’ve heard Mesopotamian, I’ve heard Canaanite, Persian, and many others. Reminds me of the people who claim that mithras was born of a virgin, mithras was born of a rock.
 
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By the way, Jimmy Akin has a video on YouTube you might want to look up, that talks about the alleged Horus-Jesus Connection. It doesn’t make any sense, people think that because something is similar that X influences Y that is a fallacy.
 
These are simply myths.

The amount of historical evidence and the weight of there witness in the fourfold Gospel, coupled with the fact they were written no more than 30-70 years after the fact, FAR outweighs any of these pagan myths.

Show me a pagan myth of a resurrected man where 4 independent sources testify to it and were written using eye witness testimony barely 50 years later.

You can’t. The Gospels are in a league of there own.

I’m not sure what the sources are for these pagan myths, but I’ll bet you the texts were written hundreds or even thousands of years after the supposed event. Absolutely nothing like the Gospel witness.
 
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I just looked into the account of Bodhidharma.

It looks like he supposedly lived in the 5th or 6th century A.D., and the legends of his “resurrection” seem to have appeared between the 11th and 12th centuries.

As I said, that’s half a MILLENIUM between the time of his death and accounts of him being resurrected. That’s nothing even anywhere near the barely half a century between Jesus’ Resurrection and the written accounts of it.
 
Jesus Christ is unique compared to fables of gods in that he embraced full human nature, including the dregs of humanity. Christ goes all the way to the bottom of the unfathomable pit.
He willingly took upon himself all the worst that human nature has to offer. As Christ, God becomes completely vulnerable to evil, in order to swallow it up and redeem it through the resurrection.

No other god condescends and loves human beings in this way.
The others are disappearing acts that keep a safe distance from human nature.
 
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the first sounds like a typical magician’s trick.

the second has a single witness. Not exactly a trove of evidence of anything.
 
eye witness accounts of having seen him after the person resurrected. Jesus was seen by over 500 after He resurrected.

1 Corinthians 15:6
"After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:3-8
“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 6After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 7After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. 8And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.”
 
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