readytoride... i hear what you are saying but i am not seeing how it addresses the issue that raising people from the dead defies other biblical laws. The issue is that the Bible says everyone lives and dies once.

example: If Lazarus was truly dead and if Jesus gave him life again, then Lazarus had defied that law because he has now lived twice... and unless he was taken to heaven at the end of his life he would have to have died once again making him a complete contradiction to the "biblical fact" that it is appointed for each man to live and die once. Lazarus lived twice and died twice.

This same principle carries over for anyone else who was raised from the dead. They got to live twice and die twice, defying the very words of the bible.. (except jesus who only got to live twice and die once since he was assumed to heaven at the end of his second life. So he only half broke the rule.