[jagusafr]

“Dawn Treader” producer Mark Johnson agrees with the, shall we say, more inclusive analysis from Neeson, telling The Hollywood Reporter that “resurrection exists in so many different religions in one form or another, so it’s hardly exclusively Christian.”

Really? Like which ones? Reincarnation is not the same as resurrection. Chesterton, in “The Everlasting Man”, knocks this out of the park when he says that’s the specific and exquisite difference between Christianity and every other religion: God became Man, died and rose again. No other major religious figure ever even CLAIMED to be God.

Argh.

Colonel, USAFR

[The_Reader_David]

As I noted to another poster who asked about other religions which teach resurrection:

• Norse paganism: Baldur the Beautiful
• Egyptian paganism: Osiris
• Pharisaic Judaism: belief in a general resurrection
• Islam: belief in a general resurrection

Lewis, himself pointed to pre-Christian pagan myths of a dying-and-rising god as evidence that God did not leave those outside his covenant with the Old Israel in complete darkness, referring to them as "good dreams" and suggesting that such myths were encouraged as preparation for the Gospel.