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...Jesus takes Mary the sister of Lazarus as his Queen at the ancient rite during which his cultist followers lame him and anoint him King; but to everyone's dismay he announces his New Law of chastity...
...Mary, thus deprived of a son, demands that Jesus give her her due by restoring Lazarus to life; and Jesus, recognizing his defeat, consents to do so by pronouncing the holy name of God, though he knows that for this act he must give his own life in exchange...
...Because my name is Lazarus and I live...
...using parables, Jesus was "a great artist, a superb storyteller, a born dramatist. . . ." In performing miracles He revealed "a God of love." But the author, who shies away from the supernatural, does not believe that Lazarus was raised from the dead. Lazarus' relatives and friends and the Gospel chronicler may have believed it, but "there is nothing [in the Biblical account] that compels us to believe that Lazarus was literally dead." Lazarus may have been brought "back to health" by Jesus' "power of mind and will" and by "the therapy of his own abundant vitality...
...right there with the body and would have continued there had the man been dead for a month. It is both unscientific and unscriptural to say the soul leaves the body at any time. Two scriptural examples: Lazarus had been dead four days. Decomposition had set in. When Jesus raised him He said, "Lazarus come forth," and Lazarus came forth with no account of anything unusual having occurred. . . . How about his soul? Lazarus was the soul himself. When Lazarus was dead his soul was also dead ("asleep" the Bible calls it). Also the young man whose funeral Jesus broke...