RE: In what way is the Resurrection the best explanation?
November 4, 2019 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2019 at 6:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Trouble with that one is that even though we might like these little morality plays - when a person tries to use them as an example of something that actually happened to them - we balk. Juries full of christians arent all that warm to the "god made me do it" defense.
In the rendition above, Joe is complicit, but we could paint a more tender picture. A man who would not want a young girl stoned, and chose to go along with the story. Or we could imagine Mary as a girl who got what she wanted and strung a bunch of credulous dupes along for the ride. Each is an exercise in character building, but neither ever happened. When we begin with a convoluted premise, any explanation that follows from it only multiplies the problems - it doesn't resolve anything. There was no virgin birth. Nada. It isn't "Based on a true story" even in the loosest sense of a made for tv movie. It's a way to wash a demi-god of it's human stain.
In the rendition above, Joe is complicit, but we could paint a more tender picture. A man who would not want a young girl stoned, and chose to go along with the story. Or we could imagine Mary as a girl who got what she wanted and strung a bunch of credulous dupes along for the ride. Each is an exercise in character building, but neither ever happened. When we begin with a convoluted premise, any explanation that follows from it only multiplies the problems - it doesn't resolve anything. There was no virgin birth. Nada. It isn't "Based on a true story" even in the loosest sense of a made for tv movie. It's a way to wash a demi-god of it's human stain.
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