whereas there is very little evidence of resuscitated bodies.
You are being too accommodating. There is equally as much evidence for flying pigs.
It's worse than that, Jim. Death is
defined as that state from which a body cannot recover. And this definition is a prerequisite for resurrection to be considered miraculous.
If your heart stops, you can be saved from death by a defibrillator; Therefore
by definition you were not dead, despite your heart having stopped beating - unless the defibrillator cannot restart you heart, and your brain activity ceases.
But not long ago, most places declared you legally dead if your heart stopped.
The definition of death changes to accommodate any circumstance that renders your condition non-permanent.
If some future neurologist invents a device that can reverse brain death in some patients, then the cessation of brain activity will be replaced as the definition of death by some other standard.
By definition, a person who appears to be dead,
no matter how convincingly, and no matter by what criteria, who is at some later time alive, was not in fact dead.
Resurrection isn't so much a miracle, as it is a misunderstanding of what people mean when they say "He's dead".
Now, of course, one could argue that my definition of "dead" here is not the same as other people's definitions. Which is true - as I mentioned above, some people will say that, for example, a person whose heart stops beating is "dead", or that a person who has no detectable breath, or no detectable brain activity, is "dead".
But my point is that such looser definitions of death don't allow people to claim miraculous resurrection either - if you adhere to any less final definition of "death", then you immediately render resurrection a banal and commonplace phenomenon for which no divine intervention, no miraculous event, is required.
Either no resurrections have ever occurred; Or they are such a routine occurrence that no special significance can be assigned to the event, and no particular importance attaches to those who have "returned to life".
By declaring resurrection to be a miracle, we must necessarily imply that death is permanent, and that therefore any diagnosis of "death" is unavoidably a mistake if the patient is noted to be alive at some future juncture.
Misdiagnosis is not a miracle from God, it's just an error from man.
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