RE: Gospel Contradictions: Sermon on the ?
August 30, 2013 at 6:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2013 at 6:20 pm by findingdoubt.)
(August 30, 2013 at 9:19 am)Napoléon Wrote:(August 30, 2013 at 4:43 am)findingdoubt Wrote: I'm copying and posting from by website I'm too new to link to
I'm pretty sure that's still against the rules? Thanks for pointing it out.
Oh nooo
My bad.
Drich and Tonus. I think the contradiction is clear. Did the sermon occur on a mount or a plain? It's clear these things are different.
(August 30, 2013 at 3:02 pm)Tonus Wrote: Luke 6:12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
Luke 6:17 He went down with them and stood on a level place.
Matthew 5:1 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down.
Luke explains that Jesus went to the mountainside to pray, then came down and the crowds gathered. Matthew claims that Jesus saw the crowd gathering, and "went up on a mountainside" to address them. I don't think it's as contradictory as it might initially seem. I doubt that the writer is implying that Jesus, upon seeing a crowd gather to hear him speak, decided the best place to do so was from 1,500 feet above them. He probably went up a few yards to higher ground. So it's possible that he went up the mountainside to pray and came down to select his apostles. Having heard that he was there, a crowd gathered. Upon seeing them, Jesus went back up the mountainside a short distance to address them. Maybe Matthew exaggerated, maybe he used different words and those were changed or corrupted during the centuries of copying and re-copying. But it isn't a make or break deal, IMO.
I think its a very basic question. Both give a place where Jesus stood to preach. One says mount, other says plain.
Its a plain contradiction.
