RE: Why don't we know the date Jesus rose up from the dead?
April 21, 2010 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2010 at 4:07 pm by Minimalist.)
(April 21, 2010 at 2:07 pm)Thor Wrote:(April 21, 2010 at 12:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Hmmm.....48 hours and no takers.
Not surprising.
I've been using your list of contradictions to argue with believers on another forum. Not surprisingly, these twits insist that these things are not "contradictions". They tell me that these things are just "different versions" from "different authors". How this doesn't make them contradictions within the context of the Babble mystifies me. It's kind of like somebody saying there are no brown walls. You then point out a brown wall and they respond by saying that is not a brown wall, it's tan.
The stupidity of xtians, and their willingness to suspend rationality in furtherance of such stupidity is never a surprise.
Nonetheless:
"According to Matthew 28:1, only “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary.”
"According to John 20:1-4, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb alone"
This is not a different version. This is a contradiction. Either Mary went to the tomb alone or she did not. Both may be, but one MUST BE wrong. It requires an astonishing shithead to argue that this is not a contradiction and obviously you have found some.
BTW, why not ask you pals how come there are different "versions?" Can't god keep his story straight?
(April 21, 2010 at 2:44 pm)TheMultiverseTheory Wrote: They worship a guy of whom they have no clue where he was born (exact location and time), where he died, when and where he "arrose", and also where he died and is currently buried. You would think the burial spot of Christ would be as cherished and saved as the Egyptian Pharoahs and ancient kings of yesterday.
That is actually a very valid point. There is little evidence in the earliest xtian records of any fascination with any of the so-called holy places. This sort of holy horseshit begins in the 4th century coincidentally or not (my bet is not) at the time Constantine gave xtians the political power to start creating and enforcing mythology.
Origen lived in Caesarea for example but apparently never gave a single thought to making the short journey to "Nazareth" (which probably did exist by Origen's time, if not jesus' alleged time) or Bethlehem.
Certainly, early xtians would have known (unlike modern xtian pilgrims who crawl around Jerusalem on their knees thinking they are following the roads where "jesus" walked) that Hadrian had leveled the ruins of Jerusalem and built a brand new city on top of them.
