Something in common with Chick?

Adam and Eve seem pretty pissed off, gnawing on the Forbidden Fruit (which, BTW, looks a whole lot like baby back ribs…)

And is that Milton from Office Space, there?

OK, I gotta admit- this is not a bad basic presentation of the Fundist, heck even the basic Evangelical version of the Gospel. No weirdness, no conspiracy-theory, no twisted history (other than believing in the factualness of the Bible :wink: ). Back in my more Righty days, I could have used this as a witnessing-supplement.

Note to OP- the Resurrection of JC is unique in that he was mutilated, dead & buried several days and rose immortal. All the other risings in the Jewish Scriptures & the Gospels & Acts were of people who had just died, their bodies basically intact & they rose to mortal life.

My vote for far and away the funniest line;

“I love my sin … oops!”

It really expresses everything that’s to be said about life as a sinner and the sudden realisation of your eternal damnation. I’m going to save that one up for when I fall off the end of the highway to hell!

Hey, now I know that going to Hell is NOT cool! I’m going to go convert right now! Thanks, Jack!

Gotta say that Jack Chick is becoming quite the hip cat these days. His lingo shows he knows how to rap with the kids in their groovy way. He shows me that God is outta sight and Jesus is one righteous dude! It also makes me hate them evil sinners who clog up the road… err giant arrow. I’d like to change but I love my sin… ooops!!!

Do you live in the Bible Belt? I find piles of Chick tracts left in public places all the time here in Texas. The local mall usually has some sitting on the arms of the benches where people sit to rest; sometimes they’re found on a counter in the restroom; I’ve had customers at the store where I work try to leave them on my work counter, but I just throw them out when that happens.

Ah, DENMARK. Sorry, I didn’t look at the location field first. Of course Chick would not be big over there; his style of religion is very American. (The people who believe him IME are usually the ones who think America is God’s Chosen Land and foreigners are just poor bastards who haven’t been saved yet.)

I don’t think it was that they realised they were going to be eternally damned, more like they calledwhat they loved a “sin”.

I don’t mean to “flame” you over this, Ted, even here in the pit, but I strongly disagree with part of what you said.

I left off mentioning Acts because it would have been in the future. But it is one more example of the lack of uniqueness of “THE” Resurrection, depending on the criterion examined. :slight_smile:

The way that the Jewish leaders were shook by the Lazarus restoration cannot be emphasized enough. It triggered the decision to arrest and sentence Jesus to death. He raised at least one other person before, the Centurion’s daughter, IIRC. But people might have been skeptical about her actual death. Lazarus was in the tomb FOUR DAYS. I have no knowledge of the particulars of decay, especially not knowing the particulars of corpse treatment in that day, but his sister’s remark (essentially: “But, Lord, it’ll smell!” as one Catholic priest was fond of rendering it) pretty much says it all.

I suppose that “basically intact” is fair enough in that Lazarus was not mutilated, dismembered, or in a sealed air compartment long enough to really start “skeletonization”. (Depending on temperature and humidity?)

We don’t know for sure the ways the various individuals in the mass resurrection were supposed to have died. Or even whether they all had died recently.

My point isn’t to argue the theological question of uniqueness. It’s just that the remark by one of the characters in the tract makes no sense. People would have seen many others walking around long before they saw Jesus, especially since it was some time before more than a handful allegedly saw him, even if Matthew’s description, posioned immediately after the Crucifixion was some kind of flash-forward to a couple of days later.

That, combined with the other points others here have made, make this one a spectaculary laughable tract.


True Blue Jack

Yeah, you are correct there. The timing along of the comment is bizarre.
Then, the only unique thing would have been JC getting out of a guarded tomb on his own power (the OT & Gospel raisings were pre-burial except for Lazarus for whom the tomb was opened.)

I do think the multiple rising which accompanied JC’s death & resurrection was not as massive public event as is imagined. I doubt that raised people were strolling about to be seen by the general public, but that they flash-appeared to their loved ones. The general effect would have been more unsettling (“did I just see dead Sam?” or “I swear dead Sam suddenly appeared to me, told me Messiah had come & then vanished!”) than panicking (“Oh my God! Here comes undead Sam & the horde of Jesus-zombies! Run!!! YEAAARGH!”- which is how Chick would write that G).

We better get back to Pit-dom. This is in danger of going to GD!

Shit. There, that’s better.

Is the whole ‘band name’ thing dead?

It is?

Damn.

I think that there is room for such a scenario in the reading. Even though they “appeared unto many” they might have visited only a few people each. And there is no indication that they stayed “with us” very long. No “record” of them becoming disciples. (The whole thing here is strange, in that, none of the other Gospels mention such an unforgetable event, and there is no secular history either.)


Reference, Matthew 27:52-53 (KJV)

"And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. "


>>>We better get back to Pit-dom. This is in danger of going to GD! <<<

> Agreed.

STUPID 'ING CHICK!


True Blue Jack