Have you rejected Jesus Christ because you think the Resurrection accounts in the 4 Gospels don't match?

Question

Yeah, I used to think they didn't agree with one another either. (E.g. Mary Magdalene appears to have been all over Palestine that first Easter morn.)
Then I studied the accounts until I got frustrated one day,
prayed about it,
set the whole thing aside. While I did my regular work, little pieces of the answer were made clear, and then it all came together for me the next morning, without my having to add or
subtract anything from the Scriptures.

Other questions have taken longer. *shrugs* Why do Bible critics always assume understanding the Bible should come so EASILY, without study or effort, and a without a humble attitude of asking the Holy Spirit of God to lead them into truth?

Jack Bauer -- thanks for the thought you apparently put into your answer. But it isn't a challenge to COME to Christ. "Just as I am without one plea, but that thy Blood was shed for me, and that thou biddest me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come. "

But that happened to me years and years agok and many many times of reading the Bible from cover to cover. I sure am glad there are challenges yet ahead in Bible study. It keeps me reading...and having to read and face things about MYSELF that need to be changed from time to time.

Answer 1

where did you get that hat? more interesting than where the easter honey was hiding the eggs for the diciples

Answer 2

In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

What I'm saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.

You see, the religious people -- most of them -- really think this planet is an experiment. That's what their beliefs come down to. Some god or other is always fixing and poking, messing around with tradesmen's wives, giving tablets on mountains, commanding you to mutilate your children, telling people what words they can say and what words they can't say, making people feel guilty about enjoying themselves, and like that. Why can't the gods leave well enough alone? All this intervention speaks of incompetence. If God didn't want Lot's wife to look back, why didn't he make her obedient, so she'd do what her husband told her? Or if he hadn't made Lot such a shithead, maybe she would've listened to him more. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was any competition.

The Earth is an object lesson for the apprentice gods. 'If you really screw up,' they get told, 'you'll make something like Earth.'

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.

One prominent American religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. Well, 1914 has come and gone, and - whole the events of that year were certainly of some importance - the world did not, at least so far as I can see, seem to have ended. There are at least three responses that an organized religion can make in the face of such a failed and fundamental prophecy. They could have said, Oh, did we say '1914'? So sorry, we meant '2014'. A slight error in calculation. Hope you weren't inconvenienced in any way. But they did not. They could have said, Well, the world would have ended, except we prayed very hard and interceded with God so He spared the Earth. But they did not. Instead, the did something much more ingenious. They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout. It is astonishing in the fact of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough- mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration was needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.

Answer 3

Because the word of God, who is an omniscient and omnipotent being, should be so utterly amazing and enlightening it would have a profound effect on anyone who reads it. Understanding the Bible is very easy. It's a book of religious bigotry, misogyny of women, and crimes against humanity. Yeah, there's some good things in there, like the verses about love in Corinthians, but that doesn't cancel out or override the bad.

The message in the Bible has little to do with the values we call "ethics" and "morality" today.

Answer 4

>>Why do Bible critics always assume understanding the Bible should come so EASILY

Because it shouldn't be a challenge. An all good and all loving god wouldn't play these silly games with us. He would tell us how to get to heaven in a way that we would understand it clearly the first time. There should be absolutely no confusion when it comes to something as serious as how one is going to spend eternity.

"The Bible is supposedly God's perfect Word. It contains instructions to humankind for avoiding the eternal fires of hell. How wonderful and kind of this God to provide us with this means of overcoming the problems for which he is ultimately responsible! The all-powerful God could have, by a mere act of will, eliminated all of the problems we humans must endure, but instead, in his infinite wisdom, he has opted to offer this indecipherable amalgam of books which is the Bible as a means for avoiding the hell which he has prepared for us. The perfect God has decided to reveal his wishes in this imperfect work, written in the imperfect language of imperfect man, translated, copied, interpreted, voted on, and related by imperfect man. No two men will ever agree what this perfect word of God is supposed to mean, since much of it is either self- contradictory, or obscured by enigmatic symbols. And yet the perfect God expects us imperfect humans to understand this paradoxical riddle using the imperfect minds with which he has equipped us. Surely the all-wise and all-powerful God would have known that it would have been better to reveal his perfect will directly to each of us, rather than to allow it to be debased and perverted by the imperfect language and botched interpretations of man."

>>and a without a humble attitude of asking the Holy Spirit of God to lead them into truth?

If it's really the "truth" from "God" and the "Holy Spirit" then how come Christians don't agree? How come there thousands of Christian denominations?

Answer 5

Critics have long claimed that the Gospels are full of contradictions. Historian Durant sought to examine the Gospel accounts from a purely objective standpoint—as historical documents. Though he says that there are seeming contradictions in them, he concludes: "The contradictions are of minutiae [trivial details], not substance; in essentials the synoptic gospels agree remarkably well, and form a consistent portrait of Christ."

Seeming contradictions in Gospel accounts are often easily resolved. To illustrate: Matthew 8:5 says that "an army officer came to [Jesus], entreating him" to cure a manservant. At Luke 7:3, we read that the officer "sent forth older men of the Jews to [Jesus] to ask him to come and bring [the] slave safely through." The officer sent the elders as his representatives. Matthew says that the army officer himself entreated Jesus because the man made his request through the elders, who served as his mouthpiece. This is just one example showing that alleged discrepancies in the Gospels can be resolved.

What of the claims of higher critics that the Gospels do not meet the criteria of real history? Continues Durant: "In the enthusiasm of its discoveries the Higher Criticism has applied to the New Testament tests of authenticity so severe that by them a hundred ancient worthies—e.g., Hammurabi, David, Socrates—would fade into legend. Despite the prejudices and theological preconceptions of the evangelists, they record many incidents that mere inventors would have concealed—the competition of the apostles for high places in the Kingdom, their flight after Jesus' arrest, Peter's denial . . . No one reading these scenes can doubt the reality of the figure behind them."

Answer 6

I came to reject him not just because of those you discovered. It came as way for me to go over the difference between what the God of OT says about His laws and what was Jesus trying to impress upon when he had so many laws broken....healing on Sabbath day which God has given so much importance until the last of his prophets(claiming it will be the sign between Him the his people Israel for all generations), the ten commandments became two for him as the greatest which is not even listed among the ten), an eye for eye or tooth for a tooth against what Jesus said that you have to offer the other cheek, throwing bread back, going extra miles and loving your enemies..it seems to me that even those which seems to be sweet to hear and good to follow, it dawned on me that it implies that he is on the other side and not on the side of God. Remember, there were words from God himself in OT...There will be things seems so sweet to taste but not necessarily right. And with creation of Christian Religion which Jesus himself said not to follow when he said not tofollow, "Many will come in my name (Jesus) and say that I am He (the Christ) and will say the end is near. Do not be deceived."
As many were even asking if the Anti-Christ is coming, how about if he has been here eversince and this time is not his coming but a time for revealing who he really is?

Answer 7

I reject that Jesus was God. I reject the magic in the bible. I reject that the bible is the word of god.

I follow the teachings of Jesus because he was a Spiritual Master. I do not follow what other people say his teachings meant. I need no one to intercede on behalf with God. I can face God on my own and guess what..... it works.

Answer 8

They want a simple fast answer to the world questions.

People got to remember the Holy Bible teaches all age groups

Toddlers, teenager, young adult, adults, and is still teaching the elderly when they die.

You can't read the bible just once and have all the answers, matter of fact you can read the bible till the day you die and not get all the answers out of it or understandings.

Answer 9

No, I reject the Bible because I have studied it in depth, reading it through from cover to cover multiple times, through multiple correspondence texts, from different theological frameworks.

I don't reject the Bible because I don't know the Bible. I reject the Bible because I know it in great depth and see nothing divine about it.

Answer 10

Awesome example of how God answers prayer!

The Bible, as I'm sure you know, is the absolute Turth with no error. If you simply don't understand something just pray about it and be willing to wait for an answer. May God grant you peace and love.

Answer 11

Let me explain why that is... The gospels are often called "Synoptic Gospels." Meaning same or collective view.That is way the 4 Gospels read differently, but all have the same accounts told in different versions. Hope this helps.