Not true, in Mark the women speak with the resurrected Jesus clothed in a white robe of some sort, then they ran away.
Paul never knew Jesus in the flesh but he clearly knew of and believed in the resurrection. See 1 Corinthians 15
It is you who don't believe in the resurrection, you are projecting your unbelief onto others.
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/...-of-mark-and-why-it-makes-all-the-difference/
Go back and read Mark (with its
original ending).
The women see A YOUNG MAN. Not Jesus. Not an angel.
Mark depicts NO resurrection appearances by Jesus. NONE.
And I know the resurrection is central to Paul's theology. But the fact is, Paul does not assert that a resurrected body is a physical one. Paul terms it a "glorified body." Paul asks and answers his own question in I Corinthians 15.
Paul wrote in the late 40s or 50s. Do not fall for the trick of conflating Paul's theology for the theology of resurrection in John and Luke. The resurrected Jesus in the New Testament could eat earthly food and could probably even eliminated the food in the usual human way as well.
But this is not the same as what Paul is insisting on.
I take seriously Paul's claim to have seen the risen Jesus and I further think that his inaugural vision was of Jesus' body, simultaneously as crucified (by Rome) and as glorified (by God).
That, of course, put God and Rome on a collision course.
So Paul's profoundly stunning vision already contained foundationally the full message of his faith and his theology.
And finally, the full meaning of Paul's life and Paul's death.
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