Sorry, not playing that game with you. The burden of proof for all of this is firmly on your shoulders. You have to show where the texts are wrong in order to have your version be anywhere close to correct.
You are making no sense. Recall that everything I've said is in response to the allegation of the presence of a logical contradiction in the texts. You were not the person initially making that allegation, but since you have chosen to adopt it, the burden of proof attached to that allegation remains.
I’ve already shown where your assertions don’t hold up.
That strikes me as an distinctly improbable scenario. But you'll have to be more specific.
I also notice you still haven’t answered the numerous other questions that were put forth. For instance ‘what was on the sign hanging above Jesus?’
Yet that's the first time such a question has been put forth, at least to me, and at least since I rejoined the conversation.
Recall that delphi_ote wrote that
"It's possible to ... explain away the previously mentioned contradictions in the sign above Jesus' head by positing that each author saw only a little bit of the sign[.]" Next he suggested that I was
"skipping the 'sign above Jesus' head by positing that each author saw only a little bit of the sign' example".
Later, I remarked that
"I was looking the other Gospel passages up ... not to see whether they contained an inconsistency as such, but to see if delphi_ote's proposed resolution of the inconsistency (each author seeing part of the sign) was essentially the same kind of solution I identified for the 'last words'. I'm not sure that it is. I think the 'Crucifixion sign' contradiction may be real rather than illusory." Obviously, that's not strictly an answer to someone else's
question since there was no question formulated, but it is a candid observation in response to someone else's
statement.
The only question asked on the subject up until now (to me, anyway; I won't exclude the possibility that some related question is buried back in the numerous pages of this thread in which I did not participate) was when you asked a while back whether I had forgotten that I was going to look up the relevant passages.
That's a fairly accurate summary of what's substantively been said here on the subject of the Cruxifixion sign, at least while I've been participating. Did I somehow miss another question in all that? I doubt it. So finally, thanks to you, we have an actual question:
"What was on the sign hanging above Jesus?" I don't know the answer. Do you?
You’re focusing on this one because you’ve already got a scenario that with a very liberal reading of the texts along with ignoring select bits almost makes sense.
So far as anyone has been able to specifically point out to me, I haven't ignored any bits, at least in the sense of contradicting any of them. Yet I get the impression that you're mildly upset that I'm failing to dispute certain claims (such as the implied claim that the Crucifixion sign texts present a necessary logical contradiction) which I'm simply not inclined to dispute. If so, kindly get over it.
Luke 23:46
Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
John 19:30
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
That's a start, I suppose. You were invited to identify a distinct assertion made in the text (the brief passages you've quoted actually contain quite a few distinct assertions; perhaps you can narrow them down), then to identify an assertion made
in the hypothetical that contradicts the previously identified source-text assertion. Take your time.
