Why can't the six accounts of the resurrection (in the Bible) be reconciled?
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What you are not entertaining, is the other possibility, that they CAN be reconciled, and you aren't seeing it, or not letting yourself.  It is not hard, it is right there.   The reference you give supports itself within the bible.  I don't see the problem, sorry.  Perhaps, your bible (Catholic Bible), could be off?    Do a study of the Christian cannon, and how the books were chosen to be included, or left out.  It is fascinating and eye opening.  Don't just assume the catholic church has it right, study for yourself.
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It is nowhere in the bible.  Up until about the 6th century a.d it was related by oral tradition.  One person telling the story and it getting passed down.  Case in point: Revelations was written in 96 a.d. The decision of which ones to put into the bible didn't happen till centuries after that by a bishop in Rome.  He picked and choosed what stories to put into the bible.  Any hopes of the testaments or the OT being accurate is as reliable as giving a crack addict 10 dollars to hold onto for a day.
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That is a foundational belief of Christianity.  So Jesus wouldn't have died on the cross for our sins.  Then there would have been no resurrection from the dead.\n\nSo, the whole thing would have been vanity.\n\nThe old testament law applied to the covenant between God and Israel.  The new testament Grace & Truth opened up salvation to all nations & peoples who call on His name.\n\nSo we would be in the nations not restored unto God, like before Christ.
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It doesn't\n\nSuicides—A Resurrection?\n\nTHE tragic news of a suicide does not close a chapter in the lives of relatives and friends; it opens one—a chapter of mixed feelings of pity and anger, sorrow and guilt. And it raises the question: May we entertain any hope for our friend who took his or her life?\n\nAlthough self-inflicted death is never justified, never righteous, the apostle Paul did hold out a beautiful hope for even some unrighteous ones. As he told a Roman court of law: “I have hope toward God . . . that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.”—Acts 24:15. \nMany theologians have long dismissed any suggestion that the resurrection of the unrighteous might offer hope for those who commit suicide. Why?\n\nCenturies ago, churchmen introduced a non-Biblical concept: immortal souls that leave the body at death and go straight to heaven, purgatory, Limbo, or hell. That concept clashed with the Bible’s clear teaching of a future resurrection. As Baptist minister Charles Andrews asked: “If the soul is already blissfully in heaven (or is already justifiably roasting in hell), what need is there for anything further?” He added: “This inner contradiction has remained to plague Christians throughout the centuries.”\n\nOne result of such errant theology was that “since Augustine’s time [354-430 C.E.], the church has condemned suicide as a sin,” says Arthur Droge in the Bible Review, “a sin beyond redemption, just like apostasy and adultery.”\n\nJesus told a criminal sentenced to death: “You will be with me in Paradise.” The man was unrighteous—a lawbreaker rather than a distraught suicide victim—guilty by his own frank admission. (Luke 23:39-43) He had no hope of going to heaven to rule with Jesus. So the Paradise in which this thief could hope to come back to life would be the beautiful earth under the rule of Jehovah God’s Kingdom.—Matthew 6:9, 10; Revelation 21:1-4.\n\nFor what purpose will God awaken this criminal? So that He mercilessly can hold his past sins against him? Hardly, for Romans 6:7, 23 says: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin,” and “the wages sin pays is death.” Although his past sins will not be accounted to him, he will still need the ransom to lift him to perfection.\n\nOnly God can fully understand the role of mental sickness, extreme stress, even genetic defects, in a “suicidal crisis,” which, the National Observer noted, “is not a lifetime characteristic [but] often a matter only of minutes or of hours.”\nGranted, one who takes his own life deprives himself of the opportunity to repent of his self-murder. But who can say whether one driven to suicide might have had a change of heart had his fatal attempt failed? Some notorious murderers have, in fact, changed and earned God’s forgiveness during their lifetime.\nThus, Jehovah, having paid “a ransom in exchange for many,” His Son, is within his right to extend mercy, even to some self-murderers, by resurrecting them and giving them the precious opportunity to “repent and turn to God by doing works that befit repentance.”\n\nThe Scriptures encourage us to see ourselves, not as immortal souls, but as valuable creations of the God who loves us, who treasures our being alive, and who looks forward with joy to the time of the resurrection.\n\n4000 years had passed from Adam & Eve, Jesus said to a Religious Leader that no one had gone to Heaven, and millions of people had passed away in death. This is a quote from the King James Bible: \n\nJohn 3:13 " And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven," \n\nIt seems to me, this would eliminate the "immortal soul" belief, not only that, if you go to Heaven or Hell when you die, you completely do away with the resurrection that the Bible speaks about, because the resurrection is suppose to take place after Jesus comes the second time, and that has
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The importance of the Resurrection is that it was Jesus' absolute proof to the world that He was God. Who else could ever come back to life? Sure, if there's a God, He could give back life to anyone He wanted. No one but God can. But think about it. If Jesus wasn't actually God, yet still said he was (John 8:58) and that he'd prove it by coming back to life three days after his death, why would God give life back to a man who was trying to take the place and authority of God himself? He wouldn't. So if the Resurrection is true, Jesus was God. \n\nIt was common belief of the early Christians that Jesus had risen from the dead. First Corinthians 15:6 tells us that he appeared to several hundred people between his resurrection and his accention into Heaven. It's one thing for the desciples to say, "Hey! Jesus came back just like he said he would!" "Where is he then? Let me see." "Well... you just missed him. He went up to Heaven already. No, Jesus made a point to let everyone know he came back.\n\nAs for actual proof of the disappearance from His tomb, it was guarded, so they were armed and fully capable of keeping people out. It was there job. These were hired by the Jewish leaders, the same one's that condemned Jesus to death. They weren't goin' to let anyone into the tomb, not a chance. They weren't goin' to let the desciples fake His resurrection. And they were well aware of his claims, for most of times Jesus spoke of it, it was directed to these Jewish leaders.\n\nThis was the debate then: When the disciples started telling people that Jesus had risen from his tomb, the Jews said that the guards fell asleep. But the disciples said then that the Jews paid the guards to say they fell asleep. (Matthew 28:11-15) There's not much else the Jews could say after that. The point is, Jesus left that tomb, the Jewish leaders knew it, the guards knew it, and the disciples knew it. If anyone questioned it, they could of easily gone and looked themselves. Even if the disciples could of managed to steal the body, it makes no sense that they'd strip the body of the burial linens and pack around a torn up, naked corpse. John 20:6,7 says that the strips of linen were lying on the ground and the burial clothes were folded up seperate from the linen. \n\nWhat's great about the resurrection is that not only is Jesus God, but he has complete control, of time, earth, heaven, hell, and even Satan. God himself got rid of what sent people to hell, unholiness. Through Christ, as only He could, Christ died, went to Hell on his own choice and POWER, taking our sins with him, challenged and warned Satan, and walked right out, showing that Satan certainly can't stop him. If he was just a man, Satan would of had the power to keep him there. No, he left, went to Heaven where our sins were destroyed. Then came back just long enough to let us know.
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Good question and asked very nicely.\n\nThere are a lot but I think, just to make it easier, the most glaring one to me is the resurrection.  To get the facts right on the Most Important Day, EVER, would be pretty key.  Yet Matthew, Mark, Luke and John conflict on about 30 points.  Among them are:  WHO went to the tomb, WHEN they went, WHY they went, WHO was there (humans or angels), HOW many (1 or 2), WAS the stone rolled away or not. \n\nTo have "gods perfect word" conflict about this most important event is a critical failure.
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There are too many versions of the Bible!!
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I'm sure this is tongue in cheek, but obviously one can be christian and not think that the bible is meant to be read as literal truth in every word.  you'd go crazy reconciling the contradictions.
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I agree with the multiple lives scheme.  It makes more sense and even Christianity could fit into this scheme if people opened their minds.  According to the Bible from what I know the Devil was cast out of heaven and given dominion on Earth, making Earth Hell.  If you die without meeting the requirements of going to Heaven, you go to Hell or Earth, living life again.  It makes sense to me.
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yes, I am intersted. I also have to remember that other writings outside of the Bible aren't always true. If what those "early Christians" wrote doesn't match up Biblically, than I have to choose to reject it. not to say that you can't learn things about the time period and culture from these writings.
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Your argument doesn't hold water. For it to be a good argument all the facts need to be true and provable. Jesus wasn't even killed on a cross he was hung.And almost nothing else you said is provable.
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Reincarnation wasn't so much "removed" from the New Testament as it was distorted and disguised with endless footnotes and spin doctoring from johnny-come-latelys who never met Jesus - beginning with Paul, who essentially founded the early Christian church. \n\nWhatever biblical passages didn't conform to their personal beliefs, they modified, deleted or slapped post-it notes all over, in an effort to discourage Christians from understanding Jesus' words within their own hearts and minds.\n\nIn the bible are clear, direct references to reincarnation such as "verily, verily [truly, literally] you must be born again", as well as numerous references to karma (e.g., the Beatitudes is a glowing example of the dynamics of karma). But church leaders who were never there - who never knew the man that spoke these things - edited his words to their own liking by telling us "Hey, don't take that literally - what he really meant was this..." \n\nAll this editing with explanatory footnotes was designed to give the church the supreme authority over the souls of mankind, under the guise of speaking for (and sometimes correcting the words of) God. \n\nThe Christian church has always focused much more on the "death" of its namesake than on his "life", and even today Jesus' martyrdom continues to be valued by Christians a great deal more than his ministry. In a sense the Christian church actually usurped Jesus by exploiting him as a sort of cover boy behind whom they promote their own agenda.  \n\nHistory has shown beyond any doubt that the early church got rich and powerful by selling dispensations and sainthoods, and by damning to hell (excommunicating) anyone who rebelled against their authority. These are the same people who wrote all the footnotes about how to interpret - and not to interpret - any biblical passages that might threaten that authority, such as references to reincarnation.
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The resurrection is the salvific moment, but it cannot be understood outside of Jesus' life.  If Jesus had no mission, but was simply killed, the resurrection wouldn't have made any sense.  But because Jesus lived the way he did, and died a death consistent with that living, the ressurection was God's ratification of Jesus' life.  We cannot understand salvation outside of Jesus' life-death-resurrection.  So, yes, Jesus' death and resuurection communicate God's salvation, but so too did Jesus' life.
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There is nothing much of a contradiction in the Bible. My quarrel is only with the interpretation of Bible by the church. The church and evangelists have been literally interpreting some of the allegorical stories in the Bible and creating a false dogma around them. They are responsible for the ridiculous theology that the christian the logy has turned out to be.
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Why do you think there are three? Please explain.\n\nFor there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and THESE THREE ARE ONE. I John 5:7
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I'm not sure the classic explanation of the Trinity is the only way to reconcile the scriptures that have led to that doctrine, actually.  I think it is much simpler than we make it out to be.  I believe that the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are simply in complete agreement with each other.  Therefore when one speaks, He speaks for all three of them.  And when you talk to one, you essentially talk to all three.  There is no plurality of ideas or desires, no conflict.  In that sense, and I believe in that sense only, they are one.
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Because when the redeemed of Christ are resurrected we will have transformed bodies that last for all eternity and apparently there will be no more procreation after that.\n\nMatthew 22:30  For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.