Is Jesus the Opposite of a Zombie?
Have you ever thought about how Jesus was the opposite of a zombie when he walked the earth after the resurrection?
When someone dies and then crawls out of their grave, they usually come back as a zombie, a creature whose soul is disintegrated by death.
When Jesus resurrects, he returns as the opposite of a zombie, a creature whose soul is perfectly integrated by life.
The zombie represents the balance between life and death like Jesus does, which may explain - “The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.”
The zombie is a member of the living dead (ghosts, vampires, mummies). His soul is half-dead. His inner soul death emanates from the inside out. It affects his physical body, which is suspended in a paradox of the soul. The zombie’s body will always be half-alive and half-dead because of the condition of his half-dead soul.
Half Soul Death + Half Soul Life = Total Zombie Soul
Jesus is a member of the dying alive (phoenix, ouroboros), the opposite class from the zombie. His soul becomes doubly alive when he dies. He starts out human, meaning a member of the living dead.
Every second we live, we inch closer to death. We are dead men walking. To be human is to fear death. But the fear of death divides our soul. It creates the split in the zombie’s soul that halves it. The halves of the soul could be integrated into one whole, but death splits the whole apart — soul fragmentation zombifies people.
Jesus begins on earth as one of the living dead (a human). However, when he intentionally faces death, he defies death in a way that removes the human barrier in his soul. Choosing death is the most courageous thing possible, because death is the scariest thing possible. He is dying alive, he’s sacrificing his life by intentionally choosing to die while still alive.
Jesus is the opposite of a zombie because, instead of his life being halved by the fear of death, his life is doubled by the courage to die.
First, his half-dead soul doubles in soul life. His courage destroys the fear barrier that creates the dead half. His intentional dying heals the split in his human soul. Its disintegrated halves integrate into one whole. The dead half merges with the living one. Both former halves join into one whole living soul, so the amount of soul life doubles. We now have double the life. Now, instead of half of a soul life, we have two halves of one whole living soul.
Half Soul Death + Half Soul Life = Total Disintegrated Soul
Half Soul Life + Half Soul Life = Whole Integrated Soul
A creature with one whole life is not the true opposite of a half-dead zombie, however, if you consider how a zombie becomes a zombie. Soul division turns a human into a zombie. A human turns into a zombie when his soul is split, when it is divided. The opposite of division is not addition, but multiplication. The true opposite of a zombie would be a person whose life is doubled rather than halved, multiplied instead of divided. This double-alive person would be a superman, an übermensch.
Jesus was like a person whose life multiplies or doubles instead of divides or halves. First, he doubles his life by reunifying the halves of his human soul. Then, he doubles his life again by experiencing the new life of his integrated soul. A whole new additional form of life, new life experience, is added to the one whole soul life to make twice the life.
Integrated Soul Life = Whole Life 1 (Being whole)
Integrated life experience = Whole Life 2 (Being a whole new way)
Life 1 + Life 2 = Double Life
The courage to die multiplies a man’s life. Man is living dead. Every minute, man physically sacrifices his life to death. He can’t escape death’s grip, which tightens with each breath he takes. He’s always sacrificing himself to death.
To go beyond his human limitations, man must take back control of his life from death. He does this by choosing to live for something beyond life, and therefore beyond death. He can choose to live for love. Love is inside and outside of life. It creates life through birth, and destroys it by consuming people’s time, energy, or attention in the course of their loving relationships.
The courage to die for love is the courage to be loving in this life. If you lack the courage to love, then you do not love. Jesus personifies love, so he symbolizes the courage to sacrifice everything for it. The fear of death zombifies and divides, the courage to love in the face of death brings new life and multiplies. The zombie is half-dead, half-human. Jesus is double-alive, superhuman. Jesus is the opposite of a zombie.