Would They Die for a Lie?

[Bucky Ball]

There are all kinds of other things that don't add up.

1. In the Pax Romana trouble-makers were just summarily executed by standing order. (He caused a ruckus in the temple - the temple was the economic life-blood of Jerusalem). The entire economy of the city was built on festival/tourism-temple sacrifice-priest fees and temple fees, and procuring the vast numbers of animals for the ritual sacrifices.
2. The standing order for execution did not involve a trial ... they were just executed.
3. Galilean peasants were never brought into the presence of Roman aristocrats ... they would never bother with the "low-life".
4. The Sanhedrin was never once in all of history called into session on Passover weekend ... it's like the temple curtain being torn ... if it had happened, the Jews who kept records of everything, far more mundae, would have written about it.
5. The gospels are contradictory on the day and time of the death.
6. In one gospel it says he was silent and said nothing at the trial. In another he gives a long speech.
7. IF the authorities had gone to all the trouble to try and execute him for the vast threat he (supposedly) was, and a couple days later there were reports of him (and 500 others) rising from the dead, they would have mounted a search to try to find him again ... in fact in Acts, Peter has to actually go through the "story" and tell the Jews what they (supposedly) did .