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[–] 16214957? ago 

I don't have a direct quote to relay but I have been forcing myself to read a chapter of a book and consider the authors life and atmosphere in which it was written.

The stories of Jesus where written long after his passing, so in a time when magic was real and spirits and demons were widely accepted as legitimate, there has to be quite a bit of exaggeration involved or loosely tied nuance, for lack of a better way to put it.

When I read about Alexander, i can imagine myself, living in that time, writing about him 100 years alter and adding in a lot of either greatly hyperbolic phrases or outright lies to enhance the story.

With this in mind, I could see it being so that "Jesus rose 3 years after being buried in a tomb" to have actually been the occurrence of "The Pharisee managed to keep the story of what Alexander had done secret for 3 years, having hidden the story away in a tomb, but it eventually spread out and his following which was once a problem, now became catastrophic in scope."

To not make any adjustments to writings given the time in which they were written requires a simple-minded nature. If I was to write about something today, no matter how objective I tried to be, my own personal bias would leak into the words.

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[–] 16214960? ago 

Right, there's a lot of context missing when reading newer translations of older works.

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[–] 16214959? ago 

Jesus rose 3 years after being buried in a tomb

*3 days