"I AM THE RESURRECTION" IN OUR DIFFERENT CULTURES

THE BIBLE (CHRISTIAN)

“As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples…'” Mark 16:5-7

"Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,” John 11:25

“He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.'” Luke 24:6-7

THE KORAN (MUSLIM)

"And the Garden will be brought nigh to the Righteous - no more a thing distant. (A voice will say:) 'This is what was promised for you - for everyone who turned (to Allah) in sincere repentance, who kept (His Law), who feared (Allah) Most Gracious unseen, and brought a heart turned in devotion (to Him):

Enter you therein in Peace and Security; This is a day of Eternal Life!' There will be for them therein all that they wish - and more besides in Our Presence" (50: 31-35).

“As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it.” (Quran 21:104)

The first human being to be dressed on the Day of Resurrection will be Prophet Abraham, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him.” (Saheeh Al-Bukhari)

BHAGAVAD GITA (HINDU)

Lord Krishna says: 2.12 "Never was a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all of these kings: Nor in the future shall any of us cease to be,"  and further, 

2.13: "as the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death".

"For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (Bhagavad Gita 2.20)

"The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.(Bhagavad Gita 2.23)

POPOL VUH (MAYA)

And when his head was put in the fork of the tree, the tree bore fruit. It would not have had any fruit, had not the head of One Hunahpu been put in the fork of the tree.

This is the calabash, as we call it today, or "the skull of One Hunahpu," as it is said.

And then One and Seven Death were amazed at the fruit of the tree. The fruit grows out everywhere, and it isn't clear where the head of One Hunahpu is; now it looks just the way calabashes look. All the Xibalbans see this, when they come to look.

The state of the tree loomed large in their thoughts, because it came about at the same time the head of One Hunahpu was put in the fork. The Xibalbans said among themselves:

"No one is to pick the fruit, nor is anyone to go beneath the tree," they said. They restricted themselves; all of Xibalba held back.

Popol Vuh, the Maya Book of the Dawn of Life. Trans. by Dennis Tedlock. 1996.

“And the Lords of Xibalba celebrated the death of the Twins: ‘We have finally succeeded’ – they said, and they addressed the sages and the sages replied with what they had been told. So the Lords of Xibalba milled the bones on a stone and tossed them on the river, but the remains did not travel far, as they settled at the bottom of the waters. And they transformed into beautiful youngsters, and they had the same faces as Master-Magi (Hunahpu) and Little-Solar-Priest (Ixbalanque)”

“And the Lords of Xibalba celebrated the death of the Twins: ‘We have finally succeeded’ – they said, and they addressed the sages and the sages replied with what they had been told. So the Lords of Xibalba milled the bones on a stone and tossed them on the river, but the remains did not travel far, as they settled at the bottom of the waters. And they transformed into beautiful youngsters, and they had the same faces as Master-Magi (Hunahpu) and Little-Solar-Priest (Ixbalanque)”