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By: De_Composed in GRITZ | Recommend this post (1)
Sat, 08 Nov 25 2:39 AM | 22 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 13707 of 13710
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Re: “I stand corrected. My apologies.”It was just an unintended exaggeration -- no big deal! You're human. Humans do that.

Similarly, Saul of Tarsus exaggerated when he wrote 1 Corinthians and said that the resurrected Christ had been seen by more than 500, a number that boggles the mind ... probably because it isn't true. Saul might not have intended to inflate the number, I'm not going to go there, but inflate it he did. Here's how you can tell:

Jesus died in the proximity of 30 A.D. At that time, literacy in Judea and Galilee was between three and ten percent, chiefly among businessmen and the upper crust. Peter, for instance, was a fisherman. His family owned boats, so he was literate. It's a similar story for Matthew, John and Saul/Paul.

If 500 of these people witnessed the resurrected Christ - the most miraculous thing they had ever seen - between 15 and 50 of them would have been literate and would surely have documented the Hell (excuse me) out of it. I'm not a historian, but I know people - and THAT is human nature.

That's just 15 to 50 people. I suppose their writings could, in theory, have been lost. But do you know how many of the people who saw Jesus could TALK? Every last one of them. And they would have talked, and talked, and talked, and talked, and TALKED. They would have talked until they were blue in the face, telling their mothers and their children and their dentists and their chiropractors. They'd have talked about it to everyone in town and to visitors for year after year and decade after decade. And hundreds or thousands of those people could write and would have done so.

But do you know how many of them did? Did write about it? Zero. A bagel. Not ONE person. In eighteen years.

Then Paul finally got around to it in 1 Thessalonians where he talked about many things and then, eventually, that Jesus died and was raised to life again.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that six more years passed - a long twenty four from Jesus's crucifixion - before Paul finally elaborated, telling his audience in 1 Corinthians exactly what had transpired.

This wouldn't hold up in court, micro. It just isn't realistic. If 500 people had seen the resurrected Christ, LOTS of them would have written about it and they sure wouldn't have waited 18 to 24 years to do so.

The bottom line is that for eighteen years, there wasn't a peep about it. Nor was there a peep about Christianity. It may as well have not existed. Then one man began to write. Only one. And he did some serious exaggerating.

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By: micro in GRITZ
Sat, 08 Nov 25 12:07 AM 		Msg. 13696 of 13710

I stand corrected. My apologies.

He was seen of over 500 after he resurrected. I am not quite sure yet where that ten thousand number in my memory was coming from but I aim to find out.

Sheesh, I'm becoming an Alzheimers patient... Sad


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