In my interactions with Askegg he postulated that the Bible is unbelievable because it contains zombies! Okay, I'll wait a minute while you finish laughing....done? Good! In his worldview, a zombie is anyone coming back from the dead. Zombies are fictional and therefore the Bible is lying. So he says. The issue is that, yes, zombies are fictional and the stuff of horror films, books, and video games. They are depicted in many different ways but none of the common depictions even remotely approaches what the Bible describes in the Old and New Testaments when people were raised back to life or when Jesus was resurrected. Being clinically dead and returning to life are not both necessary and sufficient criteria for determining what a zombie is. You've got to look at what a zombie is and see if they match the descriptions we see in the Bible.
1. Eat human flesh/brains 2. Bad skin and abnormalities making them look less than human and barely recognizable 3. Enhanced strength 4. Bad Breath
No one in the Bible even remotely resembles these characteristics. Besides Jesus can never die again according to the New Testament and zombies in fiction die all the time. Zombies in voodoo are not the same as zombies in fictional American cultures. Zombies in voodoo are mind-controlled and aren't dead.
To add to this discussion, earlier this week on G4TV's Attack of the Show, Kevin Pereira talked to Harvard Medical School Professor Steven C Scholzman about understanding the living dead, their biology and why they like to eat our brains. This could help Askegg a lot in defining what a zombie really is so he can see that zombies do not belong in the Bible.
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