RE: The Puzzle of the Empty Tomb
April 1, 2013 at 3:41 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2013 at 3:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't see anything even approaching your appraisal of his statements -in- his statements. In any case, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the narrative would be more difficult to establish as "historically reliable" if only one of the four gospels existed? Sure, on the one hand, we wouldn't have conflicting accounts - which would be a plus for one side - but we also couldn't point to corroborating accounts, which would be a negative for the same side. I mean, all of this ignores the elephant in the room, as the main barrier to concluding that the events described (in any permutation - with any omissions or editing for continuity) are historically reliable is that the dead don't raise from their graves. Specifically, after 72 hours or some-such. One could easily point to the discrepencies in the accounts as evidence that there was no conspiracy in their creation (and subsequent dispersal), though, in my opinion. So there's a silver lining to every cloud after all.
meh.
To put it another way, if we were sourcing our history from a single issue of the national inquirer, we'd be in some trouble. Unfortunately, no matter how many issues of the national inquirer we have to source our history from - that trouble never goes away. It does give us a better picture of the national inquirer, and it;s staff though. If multiple issues of the national inquirer were centered around a similar story but had varying accounts of that story - I'd like to think that we might realize that something was amiss.......but judging by the esteem that some hold for the gospels as "historically reliable" that's probably just me being hopeful.
meh.
To put it another way, if we were sourcing our history from a single issue of the national inquirer, we'd be in some trouble. Unfortunately, no matter how many issues of the national inquirer we have to source our history from - that trouble never goes away. It does give us a better picture of the national inquirer, and it;s staff though. If multiple issues of the national inquirer were centered around a similar story but had varying accounts of that story - I'd like to think that we might realize that something was amiss.......but judging by the esteem that some hold for the gospels as "historically reliable" that's probably just me being hopeful.
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