To respect God is to respect the truth: an incoherent message cannot come from God; incoherence is exposed, not blessed. The Lazarus Paradox.

The Lazarus Paradox: Does Man Die Only Once or Twice?

Does Lazarus walk among us… and is he over 2,000 years old? If Jesus resurrected Lazarus, the question is simple: Did he die again… or would he be nearly 2,000 years old today? Hebrews 9:27 clearly states: ‘Man dies only once.’ But in Juan 11:43-44 it is claimed: ‘Lazarus, come out! And he who had died came out.’ Then only three options remain:

• Option 1: Lazarus did not die again. If so, he would be nearly 2,000 years old. Has anyone seen him?
• Option 2: Lazarus did die again. Then man does not die ‘only once.’
• Option 3: The story was added centuries later and we were told something that never happened. In short: someone invented it… and millions never questioned it.

Three options. Think carefully: Which of them is the most logical? A Roman emperor could have thought: ‘I will say that everyone should worship him (Hebrews 1:6), I will associate him with Zeus, I will attribute miracles to him, and in the end everyone will worship Jupiter, our Roman god.’

The Bible also speaks of other resurrections: “Little girl, get up!” (Mark 5:41) — and Jairus’ daughter lived again. “Young man, I say to you, get up.” (Luke 7:14) — and the son of the widow of Nain got up. Matthew 27:52-53 claims that after the death of Jesus: “The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised…” The Old Testament also recounts resurrections: the son of the widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:17-24), the son of the Shunammite (2 Kings 4:32-37), and a dead man who comes back to life upon touching Elisha’s bones (2 Kings 13:20-21).

The only logical option is: Option 3: The stories were added later and never occurred. Because this situation is absurd: The press interviews the resurrected Lazarus, and he tells them: “Hebrews 9:27 says that man dies only once, that’s why I’m still here.”

If there was manipulation of the message, Rome could not limit itself to altering recent texts, because the religion it persecuted already possessed writings centuries before the Roman Empire existed. Therefore, to impose a new message, it was also necessary to adapt the ancient texts so that the whole appeared coherent.

The message in Hebrews 9:27 cannot be true at the same time that Jesus resurrected Lazarus and other men were resurrected thousands of years ago. If that is the case, where are they if indeed one only dies once?