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How does one account for the rise of resurrection belief if the gospel accounts of a discovered empty tomb and corporeal postmortem appearances of Jesus are legends, as many scholars propose? The most popular answer to this question is that belief in the resurrection came about due to a post-mortem bereavement hallucination of Jesus by Peter, and possibly others. Another largely overlooked possibility for the rise of the resurrection belief is the extraordinary phenomenon of cognitive dissonance reduction. westarinstitute.org/resources/the-fourth-r/cognitive-dissonance-resurrection-jesus/ #psychology #religion
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 14:00:02 +0000

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