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Excellent overview here.
Is Bart Ehrman still claiming that the four New Testament gospel books (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) have contradictions? How can he still be saying that after many good explanations are available? How can he still be proclaiming his false teaching? Doesn’t he care to listen to the biblical experts who can explain how we can know that each one of his alleged contradiction is not a contradiction at all? Ehrman is an agnostic professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who presented at least three of his concerns in a video and went on to list about seven alleged contradictions. Unfortunately, the Christian he was talking to did not offer any significant explanation as to why Ehrman is wrong. The Christian went on to say, all that matters is that Jesus rose from the dead. What? Yes, the resurrection does matter, but so do false claims…
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I think Bart is merely confused, just as you are. So called Orthodox teachings have confused you both. In particular, you are both confused about when Jesus ate the last supper, when God commanded the Passover lamb to be killed, and the day that Jesus died.
You state that the meal on the 14th was to be eaten at twilight. Sorry but, wrong! The King James version says the lamb was to be killed at twilight, not eaten. Also, the translation “twilight” is a poor translation. The Hebrew says, “ben har arbayim” or between the two evenings. Jews claim this was between noon and sunset when the lambs were to be killed.
The fact that Jesus died around three o’clock, placed his death right within the between the evenings command. Making him the Passover, not the meal that he ate the evening before which was not the Passover.
The priests weren’t corrupt in how they were keeping the Passover. They were killing the lambs at the temple the same time that Jesus died on the stake. They then ate the Passover lamb on the night of the 15th as they had done for 1500 years.
Also, it wasn’t Thursday when Jesus ate the meal nor was it Friday when he died. If he died on Friday and hurriedly buried before sunset, just how did the women have time to go view where he was laid, then return and prepare spices and then rest according to the commandment?
Luk 23:55 – And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
Luk 23:56 – And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
There just wasn’t enough time. And no, there is no contradiction in the bible, the contradiction is in your understanding, just as all of Bart’s contradictions are because of his misunderstanding of scripture.
The evening meal was eaten by Jesus at the beginning of the 14th on the evening of what we call Tuesday The next day, Wednesday, still the 14th, the preparation for the 15th sabbath of unleavened bread, Jesus was crucified and died at the ninth hour 3pm roughly. They had to hurry and bury him before sunset for that sunset began the 15th, the first day of Unleavened Bread, on Thursday. Thursday was the high sabbath spoken of by John.
The women, having seen where they had laid Jesus, after the 15th sabbath on Thursday, prepared spices on Friday the preparation for the weekly sabbath, rested on the weekly sabbath according to the 4th command, then went early to the tomb, before sunrise and the tomb was already empty.
A Wednesday crucifixion and a resurrection exactly three days and three nights later at sunset ending the weekly sabbath is the only way to reconcile the seeming contradictions in the Friday crucifixion story.
I realize that someone is going to bring up the disciples on the road to Emmaus saying that today, what we would call Sunday, was the third day, but that verse is mistranslated.
Luk 24:21 – But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Where they say, “today is the third day” the word “is” is from the Greek word ago, this is the only time that the word ago is translated “is”. All other times it is translated to bring or to lead or go.
What they are really saying is “today is led by the third day”. Consider a train, the engine leads the caboose. Once the caboose gets to where you are standing the engine has already passed.
The way that we in english would say this is “as of today, the third day has passed”. This is why the disciples were so sad, the third day had passed and no Jesus. They knew he said he’d rise again in, on, and after three days. On the afternoon that they were walking to Emmaus the third day had long passed. It had passed the day before at sunset.
This also fits with Daniel’s prophecy that Messiah would make a covenant with many (the New Covenant) but in the midst of the week he’d be cut off. Wednesday is the midst of the seven day wedk.
This also fits the symbolic 7,000 year plan of God, day for a year. Have you ever wondered why Jesus waited 4,000 years to come to earth and then wait another 2,000 years before setting up his millennial Sabbath Kingdom? It’s because the fourth millenia is the midst of the 7,000 year plan of God.
Yes, Jesus died on a Wednesday not a Friday.
Kevin McMillen
Morgantown, WV
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