# Jesus Could Not Rise If He Was Dead

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 6, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-could-not-rise-if-he-was-dead/608614 "2012-01-06T11:23:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-could-not-rise-if-he-was-dead/608614/28 "2012-01-06T15:21:47Z")

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If he could create the world with rule set “x”, I see no reason to postulate that couldn’t, at a later date, add rule “y” to rule set “x”. How did you surmise that God is constrained to not be able to do that? It looks like an after-the-fact made up constraint to fit this particular issue.

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