Subject: post resurrection accounts |
Bible Note: Tim, you want an example of where gospel accounts cannot be reconciled......here goes.....citing only post resurrection accounts: (by the way Steve and Hank….thanks for your input…..I had copied all four gospel accounts and had them side by side. I made a page with four columns inserting the information from each gospel in its respective column and tried to construct a coherent time line…..I couldn’t do it…..that was the maddening part.) #1 The cast of characters at the tomb vary in each gospel. #2 The dialogue at the tomb varied in each gospel. The most striking conflict is Y’shua saying, (Mt.28:10) “Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee (about 80 miles from Jerusalem); there they will see me." (in Mk 16:7 the women get the same information but a “young man” is speaking about Y’shua, it is not Y’shua speaking.) The Galilee message was not mentioned in Lk nor Jn, nor did they see Him there in Mk, Lk or Jn. #3 The accounts of Y’shua first appearing to the disciples (and when and where) are all different. a) Eleven disciples are on the scene in all but Jn….where Thomas was absent. b) There are only accounts of one appearance to the disciples in Mt, Mk and Lk, but 3 appearances in John; in Acts 1:3, “He appeared to them over a period of forty days”. #4 Accounts of the Ascension differ: a)The Ascension is not mentioned in Matthew b)Mentioned in Mark 16:19 but “the most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20.” c)In Luke, He ascends on the same day as His resurrection. d)In John there is no record of the Ascension. If anyone can come up with a reckoning of all the events coming together in a coherent time line, with no inconsistencies, I would applaud his efforts. Is it me? Thanks all….. Bub |