Featuring Justin, Jim Barrows, and Dalton, among others...
Includes discussion of:
- Empty tomb accounts disagree with each other. This deals with the core concept of the faith -- the resurrection -- and yet the inconsistencies prove that the Bible accounts are unreliable.
- John 20:1-2: Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb early morning while it is still dark. She sees the stone is rolled away and she sees that Jesus is not there. So she went to Peter and told him they have taken him from the tomb and we don't know where they have laid him.
- Mark 16 says the sun had risen -- i.e., it was daylight -- when Mary Magdalene and other women arrived at the tomb. If both gospels are correct, this would be the second trip of Mary Magdalene to the tomb -- after she had already been there (per John above) and already knows the stone is rolled away and the body is not there. So it makes no sense for her and the other women in Mark to debate who is going to roll the stone away. It makes no sense for the women to go to the tomb with spices when they know the body is not there.
- Other problems with the accounts: Nicodemus had already lavishly prepared the body for burial before placing it in the tomb (John 19:39-40). Also, what is reported is contrary in several ways to actual Jewish custom. Spicing the body was men's work, not women's. It was not Jewish custom for anyone to enter a sealed tomb to spice the corpse. In short, the women had no reason to go to the tomb with spices; this is a plot device, pure and simple. Mark's Gospel was written first, which implies that John's version deviates for John's own artistic or theological purposes.
- The Contingency Argument for God's existence
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