Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
Death is fully reversible and a dead person can be restored to life.
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What current science says
When your heart stops beating, your brain cells begin dying within 4 to 6 minutes from oxygen deprivation. Within hours, cells throughout the body undergo autolysis — they literally digest themselves with their own enzymes. Rigor mortis sets in, bacteria from your gut begin breaking down your organs, and your DNA starts degrading. CPR and defibrillators can sometimes restart a heart that just stopped, but that's resuscitation, not reversing death — and it only works within a very narrow time window. Once decomposition begins, there's nothing left to restart.
What the text says
This comes from Matthew 10:8. The text instructs followers to 'raise the dead' as a routine task, listed alongside healing the sick and cleansing lepers — treating the reversal of death as a straightforward ability.
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
GEBible doesn't pick one of these for you. Each entry shows the passage, what it says, and what current science says — nothing more.