(July 20, 2012 at 12:57 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:It seems to me that it wouldn't show that Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead
You do understand that none of your silly gospels depict any such scene, right? The have various people/groups finding a so-called "empty tomb" and various and sundry persons or "angels" hanging around. The one "gospel" which did pretend to have jesus walking out of the tomb - the gospel of "Peter," features a giant, walking, talking cross and was apparently too fucking stupid even for the church fathers who voted it out of the canon in 397 at the Council of Carthage.
The gnostic gospels like the "gospel of Peter" are mostly dated by historians to the second and third centuries, while the Christian gospels (except maybe John) and many of the NT letters are dated by almost every historian from 100 AD and before. And differences in the gospels, though some have found logically possible ways of reconciling them, would not show that there is no historical core anymore than differences in any other historical documents would show that they had no historical core.
"the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate" (1 Cor. 1:19)
