Why the tomb was empty if Jesus was resurrected?

[Bahman]

That is a part of Catholic teaching that a dead person receive a new glorified body after resurrection. Why Jesus’s tomb was empty after his resurrection? Does this fact indicate that the story is false?

 

[edward_george]

Why would that indicate the story was false? There’s nothing about an empty tomb that necessarily equals that one does not receive a glorified body. Your conclusion doesn’t follow from your premise.

-ACEGC

 

[davidv]

That is a part of Catholic teaching that a dead person receive a new glorified body after resurrection. Why Jesus’s tomb was empty after his resurrection?

Because He was no longer dead. People who are alive are not found in tombs.

Does this fact indicate that the story is false?

Quite the opposite. The empty tomb is evidence of the resurrection.

 

[tm21]

That is a part of Catholic teaching that a dead person receive a new glorified body after resurrection. Why Jesus’s tomb was empty after his resurrection? Does this fact indicate that the story is false?

Our bodies will be transformed at the resurrection of the dead…like Christ’s body. Christ did not receive a “new body”…but his existing body was glorified. From Holy Scriptures (Romans 8:11): “If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through the Spirit who dwells in you.”
The tomb was empty because Christ’s body rose from the dead…as will ours!

 

[GEddie]

The original body became, or became part of, the glorified or Resurrectional body. No problemo.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Crusaderbear]

That is a part of Catholic teaching that a dead person receive a new glorified body after resurrection. Why Jesus’s tomb was empty after his resurrection? Does this fact indicate that the story is false?

Not a new body, his oariginal was restored and resurrected.

 

[Gorgias]

That is a part of Catholic teaching that a dead person receive a new glorified body after resurrection. Why Jesus’s tomb was empty after his resurrection? Does this fact indicate that the story is false?

A living person, with a glorified body in the eschaton, will not simply lay (as if dead) in the tomb.

 

[jeffrey_erwin]

That is a part of Catholic teaching that a dead person receive a new glorified body after resurrection. Why Jesus’s tomb was empty after his resurrection? Does this fact indicate that the story is false?

**The Gospel of Matthew explicitly states that our Lord’s blockaded, sealed, and guarded tomb was found empty when opened by an act of YHWH. His body had vanished.
Corroborating evidence is noted on His burial Shroud: the physical removal of His corpse from that linen sheet would have caused the clotted, dried blood to tear away linen fibers.
But no such disturbance of the linen fibers can be found on the Shroud. Therefore the corpse must have vanished from the inside of that burial sheet.
Other vanishings of human bodies are noted in Scripture; i.e. Enoch and Elijah.

Jesus did reappear shortly after His body vanished, with His wounds but without the blood from those wounds.
That blood was transferred to His Shroud where it may still be seen today.
If you want physical evidence of our Lord’s death, burial, and resurrection, you need look no further that the Holy Shroud of Turin.
**

 

[mikekle]

I believe it was only 3 people that went into heaven with their earthly bodies, Jesus, Mary and Enoch.

 

[Bahman]

Why should God need the old body, which could be decomposed, when he can create matter for the body or could use other matter? The idea of resurrection is however older than Christianity.
wikipedia:

The concept of resurrection is found in the writings of some ancient non-Abrahamic religions in the Middle East. A few extant Egyptian and Canaanite writings allude to dying and rising gods such as Osiris and Baal. Sir James Frazer in his book The Golden Bough relates to these dying and rising gods,[7] but many of his examples, according to various scholars, distort the sources.[8] Taking a more positive position, Tryggve Mettinger argues in his recent book that the category of rise and return to life is significant for the following deities: Ugaritic Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Osiris and Dumuzi.[9]

 

[GEddie]

Why should God need the old body, which could be decomposed, when he can create matter for the body or could use other matter? The idea of resurrection is however older than Christianity.

Because the person is the same; and Body is a major part of the person.

There is a continuity between bodies, but not in the simple sense of the “new body” being the dead body somehow refurbished. Rather, as taught by Saint Paul, the original body is a kind of “seed” of the everlasting-life body.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Bahman]

Because the person is the same; and Body is a major part of the person.

There is a continuity between bodies, but not in the simple sense of the “new body” being the dead body somehow refurbished. Rather, as taught by Saint Paul, the original body is a kind of “seed” of the everlasting-life body.

ICXC NIKA

Our bodies are constantly changing. We absorb matter from food and rebuild our bodies. Why if our bodies are eaten and become a part of body another living being.

 

[tonyrey]

That is a part of Catholic teaching that a dead person receive a new glorified body after resurrection. Why Jesus’s tomb was empty after his resurrection? Does this fact indicate that the story is false?

There has been no coherent natural explanation of **how **the body of Jesus disappeared. Now is your opportunity to produce one!

 

[tonyrey]

Why should God need the old body, which could be decomposed, when he can create matter for the body or could use other matter? The idea of resurrection is however older than Christianity.

The age of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with its truth or falsity!

 

[GEddie]

Our bodies are constantly changing. We absorb matter from food and rebuild our bodies. Why if our bodies are eaten and become a part of body another living being.

And Christianity has always known that. It has been remarked that the human body is more like a flame than a stone.

ICXC NIKA

 

[fisherman_carl]

I believe it was only 3 people that went into heaven with their earthly bodies, Jesus, Mary and Enoch.

Don’t forget Elijah and possibly Moses.

 

[Bookcat]

That is a part of Catholic teaching that a dead person receive a new glorified body after resurrection. Why Jesus’s tomb was empty after his resurrection? Does this fact indicate that the story is false?

His body …the same body …is Risen. It is the same body now Risen and Glorified. And as a sign his body bears the marks of his crucifixion.

Catechism of the Catholic Church:

The condition of Christ’s risen humanity

645 By means of touch and the sharing of a meal, the risen Jesus establishes direct contact with his disciples. He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion. Yet at the same time this authentic, real body possesses the new properties of a glorious body…

scborromeo.org/ccc/p122a5p2.htm#645

 

[GEddie]

Don’t forget Elijah and possibly Moses.

Definitely not Moses, who was buried.

 

[antunesaa]

Why would that indicate the story was false? There’s nothing about an empty tomb that necessarily equals that one does not receive a glorified body. Your conclusion doesn’t follow from your premise.

-ACEGC

Exactly what I was going to observe…

 

[Bahman]

His body …the same body …is Risen. It is the same body now Risen and Glorified. And as a sign his body bears the marks of his crucifixion.

Catechism of the Catholic Church:

The condition of Christ’s risen humanity

645 By means of touch and the sharing of a meal, the risen Jesus establishes direct contact with his disciples. He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion. Yet at the same time this authentic, real body possesses the new properties of a glorious body…

scborromeo.org/ccc/p122a5p2.htm#645

The story is not original. There are other stories with the same claim before Jesus.

The concept of resurrection is found in the writings of some ancient non-Abrahamic religions in the Middle East. A few extant Egyptian and Canaanite writings allude to dying and rising gods such as Osiris and Baal. Sir James Frazer in his book The Golden Bough relates to these dying and rising gods,[7] but many of his examples, according to various scholars, distort the sources.[8] Taking a more positive position, Tryggve Mettinger argues in his recent book that the category of rise and return to life is significant for the following deities: Ugaritic Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Osiris and Dumuzi.[9]