RE: The 500 & Common Sense.
June 22, 2021 at 12:19 am
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2021 at 12:20 am by Fake Messiah.)
That whole passus, including 500-plus Brethren who all saw the Lord at the same time, is most probably a later interpolation by someone else. There are many reasons to think that, like the book of Acts (1:15) tells us that there was only around 120 believers total at the time of Jesus’ ascension.
And we find no mention of 500 in the Gospels. All of the evangelists were ignorant about it. In the earliest Gospel, "Mark", resurrected Jesus shows to no one (if we don't take into account later interpolation in Mark).
And we find no mention of 500 in the Gospels. All of the evangelists were ignorant about it. In the earliest Gospel, "Mark", resurrected Jesus shows to no one (if we don't take into account later interpolation in Mark).
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
