Something odd happened to me. At first, I was thinking it was this year that it has started, but in thinking back, it really started last Easter.
The odd (to me) thing was that I started being not so “taken in” by the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection. It is almost as if this teaching of the resurrection of the body has ceased to be essential to my Christian faith.
What would happen if some irrefutable evidence was found of the remains of Jesus’ body? Would it change the essence of my faith?
Surprisingly, I have come to believe that it would not deter my faith.
I am far more taken by the fact that Jesus’ “conquering” of death was in his acceptance of it and his refusal to do anything to turn away from it’s inevitability. He refused to turn away from who he was to avoid dying.
It is my belief that Jesus’ time on this earth was to give us an example of how to live ….. how “to be ” in this world in such a way as to be tuned in to the creative energy of our existence instead of being part of the destructive energies that exist. The choice is ours.
Perhaps the real miracle was that people took up his message and carried it on. The true essence of Jesus does, indeed, continue to live in his message which is still alive today.
Jesus came to help relieve suffering.
I have no trouble, as a Christian, accepting Jesus as a Bodhisattva.
Perhaps, on Easter Sunday, we celebrate Jesus’ “awakening”.
Journey of My Soul.... 
Tim,
Again, thanks for sharing your point of view. I must admit, however, that I am somewhat confused by why you would be spending so much time on a blog that you find “ridiculous”.
I appreciate your taking the time to explain your point of view. Again, however, you have not provided me with any information with which I am not already familiar.
Every argument you have made has been part and parcel of what has brought me to where I am today.
In the end, I may be wrong ….. for now, I am simply doing the best with what I have.
Debbie
This is ridiculous. If Christ´s body was not resurrected than we have no reason to be Catholic or Christian for that matter. The resurrection is everything! You guys need to read the bible and get up to speed on Church Tradition…read the Church fathers….this blog is nonsense. First off it would mean that the the Gospels are lying as well as the Epistles of St. Paul, plus it would mean that the plethora of prophesies that reference the resurrection in the old testament that speak of this great fulfillment are wrong as well. It would also mean the Church is bogus. And yet we know that this is not the case. Why would one follow a bunch of liars when what they want is certainty and the truth. Quit reducing such big questions with simple incomplete answers and opinions. You clearly do not have the background to be making such heretical statements, since you can also cannot back them up.
Read the Catechism.
III. THE MEANING AND SAVING SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESURRECTION
651 “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.”521 The Resurrection above all constitutes the confirmation of all Christ’s works and teachings. All truths, even those most inaccessible to human reason, find their justification if Christ by his Resurrection has given the definitive proof of his divine authority, which he had promised.
652 Christ’s Resurrection is the fulfillment of the promises both of the Old Testament and of Jesus himself during his earthly life.522 The phrase “in accordance with the Scriptures”523 indicates that Christ’s Resurrection fulfilled these predictions.
653 The truth of Jesus’ divinity is confirmed by his Resurrection. He had said: “When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he.”524 The Resurrection of the crucified one shows that he was truly “I AM”, the Son of God and God himself. So St. Paul could declare to the Jews: “What God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.'”525 Christ’s Resurrection is closely linked to the Incarnation of God’s Son, and is its fulfillment in accordance with God’s eternal plan.
654 The Paschal mystery has two aspects: by his death, Christ liberates us from sin; by his Resurrection, he opens for us the way to a new life. This new life is above all justification that reinstates us in God’s grace, “so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.”526 Justification consists in both victory over the death caused by sin and a new participation in grace.527 It brings about filial adoption so that men become Christ’s brethren, as Jesus himself called his disciples after his Resurrection: “Go and tell my brethren.”528 We are brethren not by nature, but by the gift of grace, because that adoptive filiation gains us a real share in the life of the only Son, which was fully revealed in his Resurrection.
655 Finally, Christ’s Resurrection – and the risen Christ himself is the principle and source of our future resurrection: “Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. . . For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”529 The risen Christ lives in the hearts of his faithful while they await that fulfillment . In Christ, Christians “have tasted. . . the powers of the age to come”530 and their lives are swept up by Christ into the heart of divine life, so that they may “live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.”530
IN BRIEF
656 Faith in the Resurrection has as its object an event which as historically attested to by the disciples, who really encountered the Risen One. At the same time, this event is mysteriously transcendent insofar as it is the entry of Christ’s humanity into the glory of God.
657 The empty tomb and the linen cloths lying there signify in themselves that by God’s power Christ’s body had escaped the bonds of death and corruption. They prepared the disciples to encounter the Risen Lord.
658 Christ, “the first-born from the dead” (Col 1:18), is the principle of our own resurrection, even now by the justification of our souls (cf. Rom 6:4), and one day by the new life he will impart to our bodies (cf.: Rom 8:11).
Perhaps Jesus’s message was an example of what we can become – our spiritual essence or True Nature.
Bob
A French Tibetan Buddhist nun, Sylvia, who’s passed on many years ago now told me that Jesus had shown us all ‘the Way’ to enlightenment, but we have been unable to understand and practice … 🙂