RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 13, 2013 at 5:15 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2013 at 5:36 am by Godscreated.)
(November 12, 2013 at 5:54 pm)max-greece Wrote: GC
GC Wrote:"An angel, he rolled away the stone, the angel knew Jesus was going to raise from the dead, no need to steal the body. Just like a lot of ancient history we assume it to be true..."
This is your answer? Really? The young man was an angel and Mark forgot to mention it?
You go on to say just like a lot of history we assume it to be true - an ANGEL???!!! I don't recall any item of history outside of a religious text that cites an imaginary being and then assumes it to be true - do you?
This is the way you presented what I said, you purposely left off the end of the statement so you could make a joke of what I stated.
GC Wrote:An angel, he rolled away the stone, the angel knew Jesus was going to raise from the dead, no need to steal the body. Just like a lot of human history we assume it to be true, why, because there was no need to lie.
This is what I stated, it was in reply to your questions which you also omitted to confuse the situation.
max-greece Wrote:Who was the young man?
What was he doing sitting besides a tomb in the morning?
How do we know that the young man and Joseph were not in league to steal the body?
How do we know it was even Joseph's tomb as he claimed?
An angel, answers your first question.
he rolled away the stone, answers your second question.
the angel knew Jesus was going to raise from the dead, no need to steal the body, answers your third question?
Just like a lot of human history, we assume it to be true, why, because there was no need to lie, answers your fourth question.
You manipulated my statement to make a joke of it, completely dishonest, you are shooting your reputation in the foot with the Christians here.
By the way you need to study history before making yourself look real dumb, tombs of that period always had a large dip in the groove the stone sat in to keep people from rolling it away and robbing the tomb. Go roll a big rock into a ditch, then try rolling it out, careful though we wouldn't want you to injure your toes. No two men could have moved the stone in front of Jesus tomb.
GC
@ max-greece, Joseph of Arimathea was a respected member of the Council, Mark 15:43. He was a member of the Jewish priest, in Mark 14:53 we are told who makes up the Council.
A priest would not steal a dead body, it would be against what he perceived as right and just.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
