Well, your opinion is not correct. I have great respect for devout Christians who are well-read about the Bible and their faith.

Answer the three questions please, Widow. You know more about the Bible than most of us here, right?

wtf are you talking about?



'The way I operate'? Fuck does that even mean?

You're talking shit now Widow. Like you always do when backed into a corner. You made some accusations, got challenged on them so now you're doubling down and making more. As if excessive ad hominem will somehow make you less in the wrong. Just throw enough mud and hope some of it sticks eh?

This post was edited by Scaly on Jul 31 2015 05:28pm

why so confused all of a sudden when you usually have all the answers?

You pronounced my answers unacceptable to the questions I just wonder why you think that you make any kind of judge, and you did fuck up the one answer that you tried to correct. so don't play all wtf m8 all of a sudden,

I'm rlly not sure why you're flying off the handle here...

matthew says the door was closed. You asked where he said it and I showed you. What's the issue?

Look at my post #44 and your post 45 you correct me when I'm right. According to Matthew the tomb was closed when the two Marys arrived, then an earthquake rolled the stone open and and angel appeared

Someone let me know when widow and iceman are done frantically reading their bibles for answers to these questions...

This post was edited by GetOnYourKnees on Jul 31 2015 05:52pm

And when you make pronouncements like this after I have answered Alex, is rather a bitchy little dig don't you think

Yety you say the tomb was open when he arrived even though he describes it being opened. For which it had to be closed. You can't open it if it's already open.



Stop taking offense ffs.

Nothing I've said has been derogatory towards you. Why you gettin so upset?

This post was edited by Scaly on Jul 31 2015 06:29pm

1) This really isn't a problem. Certain writers chose to be more descriptive with the number of women who were present. This wasn't a hugely important point. The difference in secondary details can be resolved... John didn't say only Mary Magadalene. You have to realize what the gospel writers were trying to convey, which is the story of Christ, not the minute details of how many women were present when the son of God visited them.

2) I think this is another case of misguided expectations. You are expecting a movie scene where Jesus says something and rises into the clouds. It's pretty obvious that Jesus told the disciples many things before He ascended, and each disciple chose to share what they felt the gospel needed.

3) Did you actually read the scripture you linked? All 4 scriptures report the tomb being opened. Again, you have to read these accounts with a realistic perspective. It's not a news story. It's a 2,000 year old gospel of certain people reporting the events as they saw fit. It's not abundantly clear on the minute details.

From a historicity standpoint, the secondary details are somewhat irrelevant. All of these gospel accounts maintain the same story with minute differences in some of the details. The fact that these independent accounts differ in this way actually makes the gospels more credible.

Follow ups:

I certainly do not view them as contradictions. I view them as differences which are resolved using a realistic mindset. Those accounts are relatively short, considering what is going on(the whole son of God being missing from the tomb and ascending to heaven). It's absolute silliness, with knowledge of how the gospels were written, to expect these writers to be consistent in these secondary details.

If you believe the Bible wasn't divinely inspired by God you are not a Christian.

Divine inspiration doesn't have to be accurate then? So how can you trust the word of any prophet?