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Challenge to atheists: I find your lack of faith disturbing!
RE: Challenge to atheists: I find your lack of faith disturbing!
(November 7, 2013 at 1:40 am)Godschild Wrote: Jesus ascension was during day light hours, not at night. Now it says Jesus tarried with them which means he spent some time with them, they said the day was near spent, this means night was shortly to come.

DP Wrote:Really? Let's go to the tape.

Luke 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

Jesus told his followers to tarry in Jerusalem. It doesn't say he did so. Then he went out to Bethany and ascended into Heaven. There is no mention of "next day" or that the event happened during daylight hours.


Read Luke 24: 29-30, Jesus tarried in Emmaus.

GC Wrote:Then a seven mile run, right, I ran track in high school, long distance, and running seven miles would be a difficult task for anyone who had not trained rigorously, actually I would say impossible.

DP Wrote:I agree.

I would also agree it's impossible that Jesus was, in one night, arrested at Gethsemane, taken to trial by the high priests, then given over to Pilate, then transported to Herod Antipas, then sent back to Pilate to be tried all in one night.

You're making progress.

Why, Herod and Pilate were in close proximity to each other, it would not take long to move Jesus from one place to the other, just a few city blocks. The whole thing was not completed until the next morning, remember the cock was crowing.

The progress being made is truth, the truth of scripture revealed by God.

GC Wrote:So by your own research it did not happen,

DP Wrote:Again, I agree.

I see it's you that is starting to learn and progress.

GC Wrote:also remember that sundown meant the start of a new day to the Jewish people.

DP Wrote:Now you're playing semantic games. The point is Luke says it all happened within 24 hours which is a far cry from 40 days.

You're accusing me of semantics, now that's funny. Luke wrote both accounts and in the first he gave no time line, in the second he gave us a more detailed account. The Jewish people took their beginning and ending of a day seriously.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Challenge to atheists: I find your lack of faith disturbing! - by Godschild - November 7, 2013 at 7:14 pm

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