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Comment author: advancedatheist 09 October 2014 01:53:03AM *  0 points [-]

Speaking of miracles, I've never gotten a good explanation from a christian about what happened to this Lazarus person Jesus raised from the dead, especially in the context of the often-quoted verse Hebrews 9:27, " And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."

Assuming this resurrection happened historically, then what happened to Lazarus afterwards? He just disappears from the story like a character in a play who has one thing to do in the plot and then he walks off the stage.

So either Lazarus died again later, but without leaving a record of his mortality that has survived down to our time. So how could he have died twice, despite what Hebrews 9:27 says?

Or else we have to take Hebrews 9:27 and the resurrection account literally, and postulate that in October of 2014, Lazarus in his deathless body still wanders the earth like a character from Highlander or something.

Comment author: Nate_Gabriel 09 October 2014 02:40:59AM 6 points [-]

It's appointed. Doesn't mean the guy who did the appointing can't make exceptions if he feels like it.