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Maybe the disciples
were hallucinating
When one thinks about what a hallucination is---the characteristics
of a hallucination---it seems that those characteristics don't match
up well at all to the descriptions we have of the appearances of
Jesus to the disciples. For instance, hallucinations tend to come
to somebody who is anticipating and dwelling on a certain event,
like a mother whose only child has gone off to war and every night
she envisions him walking through the door. She is desperately
eager for her son's return and one night she imagines him walking
through the door. But, the disciples weren't anticipating this event.
They had gone back to their fishing. They had given up. They were
beaten---the 'gig' was up as far as they were concerned.
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