Thieves On The Cross

[Johnny Pneumatic]

This thread is for exposing flaws with The Crucifiction and surrounding events.

The Crucifiction account has two thieves killed along with jesus. Thieves weren't crucified; their crime wasn't bad enough to warrant that.

After jesus died the bible says that there were earthquakes and hours of darkness. Funny no local astronomers or astrologers wrote of such an event.

What were jesus's last words? The gospels have him saying several different things. What did the Post-It(R) note on the cross say? Different there too.

How long was jesus in the tomb? Bible says he will be in there 3 days and nights. When at another spot it says he was in there for only one day and two nights.


Additions?

 

[American]

Maybe they were 3rd time offenders?


Maybe they stole blood pressure medication and someone died.


Or maybe they got the wrong guys for vehicular homicide. Cars weren't safe back then, not like today. I got in a accident once. I was OK.

 

[Yahweh]

Additions?

What effect had the announcement of Christ's birth upon Herod and the people of Jerusalem?

Matthew: "When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him" (2:3).

According to Matthew the announcement filled with alarm the entire populace, and the most diligent efforts were made to discover and destroy the infant Christ. In strange contrast to this statement of Matthew is Luke's narrative (2:22-27), which declares that Jesus, when forty days old, was brought to Jerusalem and publicly exhibited in Herod's own temple, without exciting any alarm or provoking any hostility.

According to Matthew, 2:13-16, after the birth of Christ Mary and Joseph went to Egypt and stayed there until Herod died. However, according to Luke 2:22-52, they never left Palestine.

In my professional opinion, this a truely miserable error in the bible... unfortunately there's more...

The inconsistency of the accounts in Matthew and Luke leads us to reasonably conclude that at least one of these accounts is false, and I'll be willing to bet its Matthew. Outside of Matthew, there is no record of Herod committing the mass infancide (2:16) that would lead to the escape to Egypt. Even Josephus, who devotes 40 chapters to the life of Herod, who he detested his empire and dwelled on his crimes never mentions this infancide. The apologetics for this are hysterical, some suggest that the event was simply not important enough to mention, or maybe slaying all the children in Bethleham was done in such secret that it escaped historical detection (I really wish I were making this up ). At this point, conspiracy theories are more believable than apologetics.