ressurection facts: Im a cynic and skeptic but even the most jaded of us has to consider somethings such as:?

Question

1) the roman guards are described as being bribed by jewish authorities to say the body was stolen. what for??? bribery was a death penalty offense in the roman empire, as was for guards sleeping on duty. wouldn't they guards have been killed for saying they took a bribe??

2) the angels put the guards to sleep. sleeping on guard duty also got you killed.

3) would the jewish authorities even have had the power to pay off roman guards????

4) the testimony of women wasn't worth crap in court. suspicously convienient as it takes pressure off the men?

5) if the ressurection happened why are the gospels so conflicting??

6) could joseph of aramathea have bribed the guards, since he was rich, taken the body and not told anyone, which could account for the belief of the apostles that never broke during roman torture and execution? he was also a member of the jewish athurities himself wasn't he????? do we smell suspect here????

I want to hear arguments either way!

since breaking a roman seal was a death penalty offense were talking serious briberty which again brings us to the rich and influential joeseph, wasn't he jesius godfather????

also, could the women have agree to take the blame for the guys, then had sex with the guards while the disciples moved the stone???

are there any accounts of an official roman investigation into the missing body?

Answer 1

As for the first two, that's what makes the resurrection the most palatable of any other explanation.
With the third, yes, I believe they would have. The Romans and the Jewish authorities just wanted to keep the peace.
With the fourth, it is rather strange that the Gospels would mention that it was WOMEN who found the empty tomb. If they wanted to make it more convincing, and it was all made up, they would have used men, wouldn't they?
Where do the Gospels conflict each other? I've heard many so-called examples (heard them even when I wasn't a Christian), and when I read them myself, I found that each of the Gospels actually complement the others.
As for the sixth, Joseph of Arimathea was NOT a believer. Why would he have stolen the body? Also, keep in mind that he went and preached the gospel as well, at least, according to tradition and legend.
Besides, how could ONE MAN have moved the stone? Do you realize how much that thing would have weighed? How much noise it would have made if someone had moved it? How could he have moved the stone without waking the guards? And why weren't the guards put to death?

Edit: As for the person who insists that the Jesus "myth" was based off of Mithra, Buddha, Krishna, Horus, et cetera...maybe they should go back and read some mythology. Put away Zeitgeist, put away The Golden Bough, and put away Sixteen Dying and Rising Gods. I've studied mythology since I was in elementary school, and Jesus is the only HISTORICAL person to have the story that He has.

Answer 2

The soldiers obviously wouldn't say they took a bribe, that was something found out by another source.

If the guards didn't fall asleep, then they would've seen the disciples steal the body and did nothing, how does that help them? If they say they fell asleep then they can at least argue that they weren't relieved of duty often enough.

Quite possibly, the temple treasury likely had plenty of money.

Not sure what women's testimony has to do with anything, actually, this makes the event more unique, since if they made up the resurrection story, then why use women as the first ppl to see Jesus when their story certainly would be doubted?

The gospels aren't conflicting, there are minor differences due to different authors, others can be resolved by combining them, for example, one account says that there was an angel at the tomb, another says there were two angels. Perhaps there was an angel there that spoke to the women, and there was also another one that didn't speak, so when the women retold their story, they only mentioned the one that spoke.

If Joseph bribed the guards, then someone would've asked the guards where the body went, what would they say? I think they'd say Joseph took it, and so he'd go down.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

And then there was the minor fact that He was seen alive by more than 500 eye witnesses simultaneously, after He rose from the dead.

Answer 5

I DON'T KNOW.AT THAT TIME EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE THERE WAS A RESURRECTION SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPENING IN THE KNOWN WORLD.ALL I CAN TELL IS THAT THIS ONE WAS THE LAST ONE THAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAPPENED

Answer 6

Romans are real jerks, that's my argument.

Answer 7

Let's see, who's had a resurrection story? Jesus, Mithra, Horus,Dionysus, Hercules,Buddha, etc, etc, etc.

Answer 8

thats the beauty of it God performed a miracle,this was his will