Vision hypothesis

Vision hypothesis

:"This is a sub-article of Crucifixion of Jesus.The vision hypothesis is a term used to cover a range of theories that question the physical resurrection of Jesus, and suggest that sightings of a risen Jesus were visionary experiences. As the literal bodily resurrection of Jesus is a cornerstone of Christian belief, the vision hypothesis is controversial and not accepted by many Christians. However, for example, it is accepted by the Jesus Seminar.

Visionary experiences in the New Testament

According to they saw a young man in a white robe who told them Jesus had risen and they would see him in Galilee. According to , Saint Peter "became hungry ... fell into a trance" and saw "an object like a great sheet" from Heaven that contained "all kinds of four-footed animals ... crawling creatures ... and birds ... A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"" Peter replied that he'd never eaten anything impure, presumably nothing not kosher, as he was a Jewish Christian. The voice said "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy." This repeated three times and then the sheet was gone. records his vision of "a man of Macedonia" and in Paul wrote that Jesus was "raised on the third day", that "He appeared to Cephas", then to the Twelve Apostles, then to "more than five hundred brethren at one time", then to James the Just, then to the rest of the apostles, and last of all, to Paul.

Gospel of Mary Magdalene

In several passages of the Christian Bible (eg. Mark 16:9), Mary Magdalene is reported to be the first person to see the risen Jesus. In the early Christian Gospel of Mary Magdalene, she describes this sighting as a divine vision.

Critical views

Most psychologists dispute the possibility that a group of people can witness the same hallucination.
Christian apologist scholars Gary Habermas and William Lane Craig argue that the hallucination and vision explanations for the resurrection are not plausible [http://www.equip.org/free/DJ923.htm] [http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/docs/visions.html] [http://www.wcg.org/lit/jesus/hist-res.htm]

ee also

* Swoon hypothesis
* Stolen body hypothesis
* Historical Jesus
* Historicity of Jesus

References

* Gert Lüdemann, "The Resurrection of Jesus", trans. John Bowden (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994)
* Alf Ozen and Gerd Lüdemann, "What Really Happened to Jesus? A Historical Approach to the Resurrection"', trans. John Bowden (Louisville, Kent.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995) ISBN 0-664-25647-3


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