A Danish priest from the town of Kerteminde in Denmark revealed to a local newspaper that she believes that Jesus did not literally rise from the grave, in reference to the Biblical accounts of the story.

In an interview with the newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende, Ulla Charlotte Hansen shared her thoughts on the popular Bible stories pertaining to Jesus' Resurrection and the The Story of Creation. "I can not believe that Jesus physically rose from the grave. If I was to tell someone how the world came to be, I'd say there are some scientists who have a theory about the Big Bang," she said.

Hansen's bishop Tine Lindhardt, the Bishop of Funen, expressed a similar sentiment. She argued that the resurrection of Jesus is a basic religious belief, but how he was actually resurrected from the dead is unclear. "It is an event that is so special that language should be stretched to the limit in order to capture it," she said to the newspaper Berlingske.

On Christmas Day the previous year, a priest from Frederiksholm Church in Copenhagen by the name Per Ramsdal admitted that he expressed a similar disbelief in the resurrection story. He called it an important story but the actual events narrated in it have a smattering of the supernatural.

The Bishop of Copenhagen, Peter Skov-Jakobsen, met with Ramsdal following the remarks and enrolled him in a six month mentoring program on Christian faith interpretations. Ramsdal later apologized for his earlier comments.

This time, however, Bishop Lindhardt saw no need to reprimand Hansen. She herself previously wrote to others in the religious community and suggested that an open discussion be conducted on the meaning of Jesus' resurrection.

The Biblical accounts of Jesus' resurrection appear in more than five locations in the Bible. The resurrection story has traditionally been viewed as God's plan for our salvation via the redeeming of man's sin.