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  • 4/29/2025
In today's GB News Daily Reflection, we explore how more people believe in ghosts than heaven. "Believing in ghosts is nothing new in the Bible's telling of Jesus's resurrection from death to life. When Jesus appears to his followers, they think they've seen a ghost. "But Jesus responds with these words, touch me and see a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones. You see, I have a real body, Jesus says, not a ghostly one. "Why is this so important to the Easter story? It seems in every traditional culture, ghosts live in a sad half life. In fantasy literature, they're talked about as the undead. But the Easter promise isn't."
Transcript
00:00the chibi news daily reflection hi i'm mark and i'm a vicar in the church of england in the north
00:09east a 2016 survey of the british people found just under 30 of the population believe in ghosts
00:16for comparison that makes believing in ghosts a bit more popular than believing in heaven
00:21and a bit less popular than believing in aliens i mean believing in ghosts is nothing new in the
00:26bible's telling of jesus resurrection from death to life when jesus appears to his followers they
00:32think they've seen a ghost but jesus responds with these words touch me and see a ghost doesn't have
00:38flesh and bones you see i have a real body jesus says not a ghostly one why is this so important
00:44to the easter story it seems in every traditional culture ghosts live in a sad half-life in fancy
00:51literature they're talked about as the undead but the easter promise isn't that jesus goes about as
00:56a vague spirit who can maybe spook people with a good boo and a clank of some chains but who can't
01:02actually really interact with the world but rather what the church has continued to believe for 2 000
01:07years is that jesus has a new real body and christians hope and believe that because he's his real body
01:14he can really do things not a ghost but a real person and one who still acts today
01:26so
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