What about the practical problems with this crucifixion and burial?
Like why would Pilate release Barabbas who was apparently serious criminal simply because people wanted it? This was never done in Rome.
Then when Jesus was crucified there were people gathering there to stand and look and even talk to him, but that doesn’t seem like something that Romans would allow.
Then, of course, the burial. People that were crucified were left to hang on the cross and were forbidden by Romans to be buried. Instead, they were left to rot and eaten by dogs and other scavengers because, among other things, Romans knew they would really make Jews squirm since they wanted their dead buried. There was no reason why Jesus would be exception, especially since Pilate was not a sympathetic person but rather a cruel person.
Then there is a thing of gospels breaking its own logic and that is that a Jew named Joseph of Arimathea decided to bury him and yet just hours before it was said that all the Jews (including him) called him a blasphemer. Even more nonsense is in Acts 13:28-29 that say that it was not Joseph that buried him but whole group of Jews – you know the ones that called him a blasphemer.
Hey but why am I even asking when the answer is – Magic!
Like why would Pilate release Barabbas who was apparently serious criminal simply because people wanted it? This was never done in Rome.
Then when Jesus was crucified there were people gathering there to stand and look and even talk to him, but that doesn’t seem like something that Romans would allow.
Then, of course, the burial. People that were crucified were left to hang on the cross and were forbidden by Romans to be buried. Instead, they were left to rot and eaten by dogs and other scavengers because, among other things, Romans knew they would really make Jews squirm since they wanted their dead buried. There was no reason why Jesus would be exception, especially since Pilate was not a sympathetic person but rather a cruel person.
Then there is a thing of gospels breaking its own logic and that is that a Jew named Joseph of Arimathea decided to bury him and yet just hours before it was said that all the Jews (including him) called him a blasphemer. Even more nonsense is in Acts 13:28-29 that say that it was not Joseph that buried him but whole group of Jews – you know the ones that called him a blasphemer.
Hey but why am I even asking when the answer is – Magic!
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
