{
  "article": "<section class=\"plain-english-door\" aria-label=\"Introduction\">\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__kicker\">Answer packet</p>\n  <h3>Spiritual-only readings explain something, but they shrink the earliest claim.</h3>\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__lead\">A spiritual-only resurrection reading says Jesus was vindicated or alive with God without bodily resurrection. That deserves a real seat. This answer row asks a narrower question: whether that reading can carry the bodily, public, and eschatological shape of the earliest resurrection proclamation.</p>\n</section>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Observation</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p><strong>Spiritual-only explanations are strongest when exaltation and heavenly vindication are real categories.</strong> Christianity itself speaks of exaltation. The question is whether the earliest resurrection claim can be reduced to exaltation without losing the force of resurrection language, burial/tomb context, embodied proclamation, and 1 Corinthians 15's resurrection argument.</p>\n<p>This row does not add direct Resurrection proof. It modestly pressures the spiritual-only alternative seat.</p>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">What This Answers</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>It answers the claim that resurrection language can be reduced to non-bodily vindication.</li>\n<li>It highlights the difference between heavenly exaltation and resurrection from the dead.</li>\n<li>It supports bounded alternative-collapse credit only against the spiritual-only hypothesis.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">What This Does Not Answer</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>It does not prove the Resurrection event.</li>\n<li>It does not deny that exaltation and heavenly life are biblical categories.</li>\n<li>It does not settle every empty-tomb or appearance question.</li>\n<li>It does not cancel the spiritual-only pressure row.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Bayesian Meaning</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p>This is a paired <code>defeater_answer</code> row for <code>E-ALT-SPIR-1</code>. It gives small capped pressure against <code>H-ALT-SPIRITUAL-ONLY</code>: <strong>-0.035 log10BF</strong>. It intentionally carries no direct <code>H-RESURRECTION</code> Bayes factor.</p>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Caveats</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>Keep the spiritual-only rival row visible as live pressure.</li>\n<li>Do not confuse this answer with direct proof of the Resurrection.</li>\n<li>Mixed naturalistic explanations may combine spiritual-only interpretation with visionary experience, social memory, or cognitive dissonance.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>",
  "axioms": [
    "A6",
    "A7"
  ],
  "bayes_factors": {
    "H-ALT-SPIRITUAL-ONLY": {
      "log10BF": -0.035,
      "bf_min": -0.06,
      "bf_max": -0.01,
      "rationale": "Bodily and eschatological resurrection language modestly pressures spiritual-only interpretations, while leaving exaltation and vindication categories live."
    }
  },
  "bf_status": "ready",
  "category": "Defeater Answers",
  "citations": [
    "1 Corinthians 15:3-8.",
    "1 Corinthians 15:12-28.",
    "Luke 24:36-43.",
    "John 20:24-29.",
    "Daniel 12:2.",
    "2 Maccabees 7.",
    "N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God (Fortress, 2003).",
    "Dale C. Allison Jr., The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History (Bloomsbury, 2021).",
    "Claudia Setzer, Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity (Brill, 2004)."
  ],
  "counts_in_cache": true,
  "evidence_id": "E-ANS-SPIRITUAL-ONLY-BODILY-RESURRECTION",
  "visual_asset": {
    "src": "assets/evidence-viewer/evidence-images/bodily_resurrection_evidence_and_implications.png",
    "title": "Bodily resurrection as a partial answer to spiritual-only readings visual overview",
    "alt": "AI-generated comparative visualization for Bodily resurrection as a partial answer to spiritual-only readings. Illustrative only, not experimental data.",
    "caption": "AI-generated conceptual / comparative visualization ? illustrative only, not experimental data. Presented inside a Christian evidence map. Partial answer / comparative pressure; not standalone proof.",
    "width": 1448,
    "height": 1086
  },
  "hypothesis_ref": [
    "H-ALT-SPIRITUAL-ONLY"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-05-28T00:00:00Z",
  "major_category": "History",
  "metadata": {
    "answer_status": "partial_answer",
    "canonical_anchor": "E-ALT-SPIR-1",
    "cap_eligible": true,
    "cap_exempt_reason": null,
    "cap_family": "resurrection_rival_pressure",
    "cap_notes": "Paired answer to spiritual-only resurrection pressure. It may contribute only bounded alternative-collapse support and must not be routed as direct Resurrection evidence.",
    "cap_profile": "rival_pressure",
    "category": "Defeater Answers",
    "counts_as_direct_christ_identity": false,
    "counts_as_direct_logos_synthesis": false,
    "counts_as_direct_resurrection": false,
    "defeater_family": "resurrection_alternative",
    "defeater_target": [
      "H-ALT-SPIRITUAL-ONLY"
    ],
    "dependency_cluster": "resurrection_alternatives",
    "dependency_cluster_id": "resurrection_alternatives",
    "dependency_cluster_label": "Resurrection alternative explanations",
    "dependency_cluster_role": "counter",
    "dependency_role": "counter",
    "dependency_weight_class": "semi_independent",
    "directness": "supporting",
    "evidence_function": "defeater_answer",
    "governance_reviewed": "2026-05-28",
    "last_updated": "2026-05-28",
    "major_category": "History",
    "paired_defeater": "E-ALT-SPIR-1",
    "rev": 1,
    "scoring_note": "Small capped pressure against H-ALT-SPIRITUAL-ONLY only. No direct H-RESURRECTION BF.",
    "source_status": "source_review_pending",
    "sub_category": "Resurrection Alternatives"
  },
  "positive_apologetic": {
    "label": "Partial answer",
    "title": "Exaltation is not identical to resurrection.",
    "key_point": "Spiritual-only readings explain vindication language, but the earliest Christian claim carries bodily and eschatological resurrection weight.",
    "conversation_move": "Grant exaltation first. Then ask why the earliest proclamation uses resurrection language with bodily, tomb, witness, and public reversal pressure.",
    "caveat": "This is not direct Resurrection proof. It is a bounded answer to one rival explanation."
  },
  "scripture_passage": "1 Corinthians 15:3-8; 1 Corinthians 15:12-28; Luke 24:36-43; John 20:24-29",
  "source_note": "Pair with E-ALT-SPIR-1 and E-HIST-BODILY-RESURRECTION-ORIGIN. Keep spiritual-only, exaltation, and bodily-resurrection categories distinct.",
  "status": "active",
  "sub_category": "Resurrection Alternatives",
  "summary": "Datum: spiritual-only interpretations must explain why early resurrection proclamation took bodily and eschatological form.",
  "tags": [
    "Defeater-Answer",
    "Resurrection-Alternatives",
    "Spiritual-Only",
    "Scored"
  ],
  "tilt": "negative",
  "title": "Bodily resurrection as a partial answer to spiritual-only readings",
  "type": "atomic"
}