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189:2.3 After the [[chief]] of [[archangels]] had been granted this request, he [[summoned]] to his [[assistance]] many of his fellows, together with a numerous host of the [[representatives]] of all orders of [[celestial]] [[personalities]], and then, with the aid of the [[Urantia]] [[midwayers]], proceeded to take [[possession]] of [[Jesus]]' [[physical]] [[body]]. This [[body]] of [[death]] was a [[purely]] [[material]] [[creation]]; it was [[physical]] and [[literal]]; it could not be removed from the [[tomb]] as the [[morontia]] [[form]] of the [[resurrection]] had been able to escape the sealed [[sepulchre]]. By the aid of certain [[morontia]] auxiliary [[personalities]], the [[morontia]] [[form]] can be made at one time as of the [[spirit]] so that it can become indifferent to ordinary [[matter]], while at another time it can become [[discernible]] and contactable to [[material]] [[beings]], such as the [[mortals]] of the realm.

189:2.3 After the [[chief]] of [[archangels]] had been granted this request, he [[summoned]] to his [[assistance]] many of his fellows, together with a numerous host of the [[representatives]] of all orders of [[celestial]] [[personalities]], and then, with the aid of the [[Urantia]] [[midwayers]], proceeded to take [[possession]] of [[Jesus]]' [[physical]] [[body]]. This [[body]] of [[death]] was a [[purely]] [[material]] [[creation]]; it was [[physical]] and [[literal]]; it could not be removed from the [[tomb]] as the [[morontia]] [[form]] of the [[resurrection]] had been able to escape the sealed [[sepulchre]]. By the aid of certain [[morontia]] auxiliary [[personalities]], the [[morontia]] [[form]] can be made at one time as of the [[spirit]] so that it can become indifferent to ordinary [[matter]], while at another time it can become [[discernible]] and contactable to [[material]] [[beings]], such as the [[mortals]] of the realm.

189:2.4 As they made ready to remove the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] from the [[tomb]] [[preparatory]] to according it the [[dignified]] and [[reverent]] disposal of near-instantaneous [[dissolution]], it was assigned the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary Urantia midwayers] to roll away the stones from the entrance of the [[tomb]]. The larger of these two stones was a huge [[circular]] affair, much like a millstone, and it moved in a groove chiseled out of the rock, so that it could be rolled back and forth to open or close the [[tomb]]. When the watching Jewish guards and the Roman soldiers, in the dim light of the [[morning]], saw this huge stone begin to roll away from the entrance of the [[tomb]], apparently of its own accord—without any visible means to account for such [[motion]]—they were seized with [[fear]] and panic, and they fled in haste from the scene. The [[Jews]] fled to their [[homes]], afterward going back to report these doings to their captain at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_temple the temple]. The [[Romans]] fled to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Fortress fortress of Antonia] and reported what they had seen to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion centurion] as soon as he arrived on [[duty]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:2.4 As they made ready to remove the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] from the [[tomb]] [[preparatory]] to according it the [[dignified]] and [[reverent]] disposal of near-instantaneous [[dissolution]], it was assigned the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary Urantia midwayers] to roll away the stones from the entrance of the [[tomb]]. The larger of these two stones was a huge [[circular]] affair, much like a millstone, and it moved in a groove chiseled out of the rock, so that it could be rolled back and forth to open or close the [[tomb]]. When the watching Jewish guards and the Roman soldiers, in the dim light of the [[morning]], saw this huge stone begin to roll away from the entrance of the [[tomb]], apparently of its own accord—without any visible means to account for such [[motion]]—they were seized with [[fear]] and panic, and they fled in haste from the scene. The [[Jews]] fled to their [[homes]], afterward going back to report these doings to their captain at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_temple the temple]. The [[Romans]] fled to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Fortress fortress of Antonia] and reported what they had seen to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion centurion] as soon as he arrived on [[duty]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:2.5 The [[Jewish]] [[leaders]] began the sordid [[business]] of supposedly getting rid of [[Jesus]] by offering [[bribes]] to the [[traitorous]] [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]], and now, when confronted with this [[embarrassing]] situation, instead of [[thinking]] of [[punishing]] the guards who [[deserted]] their post, they resorted to bribing these guards and the [[Roman]] [[soldiers]]. They paid each of these twenty men a sum of [[money]] and instructed them to say to all: " While we [[slept]] during the nighttime, his [[disciples]] came upon us and took away the [[body]]. " And the [[Jewish]] [[leaders]] made solemn [[promises]] to the [[soldiers]] to defend them before [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilate Pilate] in case it should ever come to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_governor governor]'s [[knowledge]] that they had [[accepted]] a [[bribe]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:2.5 The [[Jewish]] [[leaders]] began the sordid [[business]] of supposedly getting rid of [[Jesus]] by offering [[bribes]] to the [[traitorous]] [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]], and now, when confronted with this [[embarrassing]] situation, instead of [[thinking]] of [[punishing]] the guards who [[deserted]] their post, they resorted to bribing these guards and the [[Roman]] [[soldiers]]. They paid each of these twenty men a sum of [[money]] and instructed them to say to all: " While we [[slept]] during the nighttime, his [[disciples]] came upon us and took away the [[body]]. " And the [[Jewish]] [[leaders]] made solemn [[promises]] to the [[soldiers]] to defend them before [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilate Pilate] in case it should ever come to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_governor governor]'s [[knowledge]] that they had [[accepted]] a [[bribe]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_28]

189:2.6 The [[Christian]] [[belief]] in the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] has been based on the [[fact]] of the " empty tomb. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_20] It was indeed a [[fact]] that the [[tomb]] was empty, but this is not the [[truth]] of the [[resurrection]]. The [[tomb]] was truly empty when the first believers arrived, and this [[fact]], [[associated]] with that of the undoubted [[resurrection]] of [[the Master]], led to the [[formulation]] of a [[belief]] which was not true: the teaching that the [[material]] and [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]] was raised from the [[grave]]. [[Truth]] having to do with [[spiritual]] [[realities]] and [[eternal]] [[values]] cannot always be built up by a combination of [[apparent]] [[facts]]. Although [[individual]] [[facts]] may be [[materially]] true, it does not follow that the [[association]] of a [[group]] of [[facts]] must necessarily lead to [[truthful]] [[spiritual]] conclusions.

189:2.6 The [[Christian]] [[belief]] in the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] has been based on the [[fact]] of the " empty tomb. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_20] It was indeed a [[fact]] that the [[tomb]] was empty, but this is not the [[truth]] of the [[resurrection]]. The [[tomb]] was truly empty when the first believers arrived, and this [[fact]], [[associated]] with that of the undoubted [[resurrection]] of [[the Master]], led to the [[formulation]] of a [[belief]] which was not true: the teaching that the [[material]] and [[mortal]] [[body]] of [[Jesus]] was raised from the [[grave]]. [[Truth]] having to do with [[spiritual]] [[realities]] and [[eternal]] [[values]] cannot always be built up by a combination of [[apparent]] [[facts]]. Although [[individual]] [[facts]] may be [[materially]] true, it does not follow that the [[association]] of a [[group]] of [[facts]] must necessarily lead to [[truthful]] [[spiritual]] conclusions.

189:2.7 The [[tomb]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph] was empty, not because the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] had been [[rehabilitated]] or [[resurrected]], but because the [[celestial hosts]] had been granted their request to afford it a special and [[unique]] [[dissolution]], a return of the " dust to dust, "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer#Literary_influence] without the [[intervention]] of the [[delays]] of [[time]] and without the operation of the [[ordinary]] and visible [[processes]] of [[mortal]] [[decay]] and [[material]] [[corruption]].

189:2.7 The [[tomb]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph] was empty, not because the [[body]] of [[Jesus]] had been [[rehabilitated]] or [[resurrected]], but because the [[celestial hosts]] had been granted their request to afford it a special and [[unique]] [[dissolution]], a return of the " dust to dust, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer#Literary_influence] without the [[intervention]] of the [[delays]] of [[time]] and without the operation of the [[ordinary]] and visible [[processes]] of [[mortal]] [[decay]] and [[material]] [[corruption]].

189:2.8 The [[mortal]] remains of [[Jesus]] underwent the same [[natural]] [[process]] of elemental disintegration as characterizes all [[human]] [[bodies]] on [[earth]] except that, in point of [[time]], this natural mode of [[dissolution]] was greatly [[accelerated]], hastened to that point where it became well-nigh [[instantaneous]].

189:2.8 The [[mortal]] remains of [[Jesus]] underwent the same [[natural]] [[process]] of elemental disintegration as characterizes all [[human]] [[bodies]] on [[earth]] except that, in point of [[time]], this natural mode of [[dissolution]] was greatly [[accelerated]], hastened to that point where it became well-nigh [[instantaneous]].