From:  (Nigel B. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Verbal Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:13:18 GMT

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:12:12 +1000, David Grasby
<> wrote:

>As promised, here is the follow-up on Jesus' time of death.  I found it
>extremely amusing how no-one was willing to touch the subject after I
>shot it down in my earlier post!  Funny how people will use an invalid
>argument to prove their point until they come across someone who can
>show it up as such!   

Good post, David.
The discrepancies between the Gospels on what time Jesus died are
well illustrated - but you forgot an even more obvious
difference. In Matthew, Mark and Luke the last supper is a
passover meal, and Jesus died on the following Day (Matt 26:19,
Mark 14:14,16, Luke 22:8,11,13,15) . In John the last supper was
before the Passover, and his Trial took place on the day of
preparation for the passover (John 18:39, 19:14.)

>God doesn't need to be logical; that's why he created us with brains...

Unfortunately there are some who seem to think that faith requres
that we do not use our brains.

An intelligent response to the discrepancies in the Bible is to
recognise that the authors were inspired to pass on their faith
and experience of God - and their message is not diminished by
minor errors of timing, place and dialogue.

An unintelligent response to the discrepancies in the Bible is to
pretend that they do not exist.

Cheers

N+

Nigel B. Mitchell

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