please specify what do u mean the difference between the early Christians talking about the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and apocalyptic language.
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Apocalyptic is an ancient literary genre that is well known. Most apocalypses lay outside the biblical canon, but Scripture does contain apocalyptic material: The book of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (also known as the book of Revelation).
Apocalyptic language is intentionally big, loud, graphic, and intense. Typical of the genre has a figure being shown great things by a heavenly being, an angel usually. So in Daniel God sends Gabriel to reveal things to Daniel; in the Revelation John is transported into the heavenly realms and an angel shows him grand visions. But this is also true of other apocalypses, such as the Apocalypse of Abraham, the Apocalypse of Ezra, or the Apocalypse of Peter. The point of the apocalypse isn't that it contains visions of the future, but visions, revelations (the Greek word apokalypsis means "revelation").
So it's important to understand what an apocalypse is, literarily, and what apocalyptic language entails.
And there is a fundamental difference between apocalyptic language and basic confessional language, such as what St. Paul uses in 1 Corinthians 15, concerning the death and resurrection of Jesus. Or the Gospel narratives, wherein the Lord says "feel me and see I am not a ghost, I am flesh and bone".
Understanding literary differences between books of the Bible, understanding the nuances and ways in which language is used between the biblical texts is absolutely critical to making sense of the Bible at all.
So no, I don't treat the confessional nature of Christ's death and resurrection the same way I treat the hyperbolic, apocalyptic, or allegorical uses of language in different parts of the Bible.
I believe that when the Gospels say there was a man named John baptizing in the Jordan they mean to say there was a man named John baptizing in the Jordan.
But I do not believe that when the Psalmist says, "God is my rock" that he means to say that God, literally, is a large composite of solid mineral.
And, likewise, I do not believe that when St. John writes that he saw a prostitute riding upon a scarlet beast that he intends it to mean there is a literal prostitute riding a literal scarlet beast.
-CryptoLutheran