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Jul 31 2015 11:57pm
Quote (thundercock @ 1 Aug 2015 00:48)
It was obviously written by humans. Why would you think otherwise? These humans were divinely inspired by God though. You have to ask yourself, does the message change at all based on these discrepancies? I think Santara and several other people have given you perfectly valid explanations.


Maybe the message of the religion doesn't change, but the validity of it all does, though. At least for me. I assume that Christians actually believe everything that happened in the Bible is true. I just struggle with that idea a lot of times, especially when you consider 4 different people account for four different things on many fronts with the resurrection story, for example.

And it wasn't just small differences, like some you'd expect when you have 4 different people observing the same thing.
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Aug 1 2015 12:30am
Quote (Scaly @ Jul 31 2015 04:47pm)
But they speak the divinely inspired word of God. So either they were divinely inspired to lie, three different things happened at the same time or they weren't divinely inspired at all and are just talking shit.


Divinely inspired. What does this mean? Sounds like the Lord, having made the impossible possible, inspired them to write about their firsthand experiences with Jesus. From their point of view. Try harder.
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Aug 1 2015 01:15am
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See, that underlined bit is a part of the issue. The Bible is a divinely inspired work; the word of God. We shouldn't treat it just like any historical document. When you find contradictions within a divine scripture, it makes you you wonder. And you can say they aren't contradictions, but they are, man. Check out that PDF in the OP of this topic.


The PDF is worthless, all we have to do is read the scriptures and compare them with an open mind. There are no real contradictions.... only different points of view from the same historical perspective.
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Aug 1 2015 02:15am
...the irony of this is that if the Gospels agreed on every detail of the Resurrection it's detractors would scream collusion . Pearls before swine and all that...
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Aug 1 2015 03:24am
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Maybe the message of the religion doesn't change, but the validity of it all does, though. At least for me. I assume that Christians actually believe everything that happened in the Bible is true. I just struggle with that idea a lot of times, especially when you consider 4 different people account for four different things on many fronts with the resurrection story, for example.

And it wasn't just small differences, like some you'd expect when you have 4 different people observing the same thing.



And here we are at the beginning of page one with you drawing the same exact conclusion, because you were not honest. That you had when you posed the questions you could have just posted a meme that said "Here is what I think" and saved all of these pixels for more important things like this;

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Aug 1 2015 11:40am
Quote (Santara @ 1 Aug 2015 06:30)
Divinely inspired. What does this mean? Sounds like the Lord, having made the impossible possible, inspired them to write about their firsthand experiences with Jesus. From their point of view. Try harder.


But if he didn't inspire them to be accurate then how can you trust anything that is said?
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Aug 1 2015 11:41am
Quote (Scaly @ Aug 1 2015 01:40pm)
But if he didn't inspire them to be accurate then how can you trust anything that is said?


...inspiration is not automatic writing .
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Aug 1 2015 11:43am
Quote (Scaly @ 1 Aug 2015 12:40)
But if he didn't inspire them to be accurate then how can you trust anything that is said?


It's a good point, but I don't think it will be addressed in its entirety.

Historical context
Different eyewitnesses
Have more faith
etc
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Aug 1 2015 11:56am
Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ 1 Aug 2015 17:41)
...inspiration is not automatic writing .


I get that. My point still stands. If they weren't inspired to be accurate then how can you know what is accurate?
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Aug 1 2015 12:04pm
Quote (Scaly @ Aug 1 2015 01:56pm)
I get that. My point still stands. If they weren't inspired to be accurate then how can you know what is accurate?


...no , it does not because you have been distracted by the trees , always majoring in the minor leagues . The Gospel writers agree that Jesus was killed , that he was entombed and that He rose from the dead , the very essence of our salvation , the most powerful example of Gods' love for us , but you can't see it because you're distracted by meaningless minutiae . It's almost as if Satan does not want you to see the glory .
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