I read a blog post recently about the "zombies" that arose from the dead at Jesus's death and entered Jerusalem after Jesus' resurrection. The blog, which does not claim to be original in this thought, remarks on how curious it is that no gospel but Matthew includes such a statement, and how doubly curious it is that Thomas' doubt about Jesus' resurrection persisted even when--as the critics suggest--Jerusalem was overrun by resurrected persons.
Surely we cannot think that such a jibe would be unanswerable by the faithful. After all, Jesus had stated that the Rich Man of "The Rich Man and Lazarus" was told that even if resurrected persons were sent to preach to the Rich Man's benighted still-living brothers, those lost souls would not believe. Surely the post-Resurrection "zombies" (described as holy but not necessarily Christian) could be thought to have shown themselves only to the living righteous--persons like Anna and Simeon--who would have been neither tale-bearers nor people who would have needed communion or communication with Jesus' disciples.
There--we have an answer. Perhaps not a very good answer, but an answer nonetheless. What foolishness emits from both sides about miracles and the supernatural.
The miracle is existence. The truth is the fact that we ourselves exist. The faith is a sincere response to truth.
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