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Gary & Rhinestone's Thread on Burial and Resurrection of Christ

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  • Originally posted by Gary View Post
    Hmm.

    So Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus, asks Pilate to give him the body to put into his brand spankin' new family mausoleum, bypassing the Sanhedrin who planned to put him their "criminals' tomb". The Sanhedrin, however, was not offended that one of "theirs" was treating the body of the hated Galilean like royalty, but meekly went along with it, asking Pilate only for a few guards to protect Arimathea's mausoleum.

    Are you serious?

    Arimathea would have been in hot water and the Sanhedrin would have raised hell with Pilate. They had already threatened Pilate with reporting him to Caesar. Now he gives Jesus' body a mausoleum for every Christian to visit and turn into a Christian shrine??? No way. They would have reported Pilate to Caesar and Caesar would have crucified Pilate for giving a traitor an honorable burial.

    This obvious embellishment is NOT believable.
    I agree, your obvious embellishment is not believable.
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    • Originally posted by Gary View Post
      No Protestant believes that the "tomb" that Empress Helena "identified" as the tomb of Jesus is the tomb of Jesus. If there ever was a tomb, its location is lost. The question is: Why?
      Why? The gilt and liturgical trappings at the Church of the Resurrection (aka Holy Sepulchre) tend to make Protestants of a non-liturgical tradition uncomfortable. So a Protestant in the late 19th century picked another spot (the so-called "Garden Tomb") as the actual site, but not a single scholar agrees with him. As I have pointed out before (and others have pointed out here), the tomb was not venerated at least in part because a pagan temple was built on top of it. Attitudes also changed in the 4th century regarding the veneration of holy places in general. I know you won't read it, but this is spelled out in P.W.L. Walker's Holy City, Holy Places.
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      • Originally posted by RhinestoneCowboy View Post
        Your credibility is shot, and no one cares to waste their time arguing with you. Sorry.
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        • Originally posted by Raphael View Post
          And yet the Christian Historians in the 4th century say they did know where it was because in the second century, when Hadrian REBUILT the city that had been completely DESTROYED he deliberately plonked down temples to Aphrodite and Jupiter on the Christian Holy Sites. (much like the Muslims plonked a Mosque down on the Temple Mount.)
          Which Christian holy sites, and where were they located?

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          • Originally posted by DesertBerean View Post


            Ok, a correction first. Helena did actually seek the tomb in the *4th* century, not the 3rd like I said before. My apologies.

            Gary, you used the witness of the Bible to establish your views on Pilate, the trial, and the death of Jesus. Then you refused to use the same witness of the Bible to establish the burial, empty tomb, and the reactions of believers and unbelievers alike.

            Can't have it both ways.
            You just don't get it, do you?

            I used one passage to show that another is impossible. Big difference.

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            • Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
              Why? The gilt and liturgical trappings at the Church of the Resurrection (aka Holy Sepulchre) tend to make Protestants of a non-liturgical tradition uncomfortable. So a Protestant in the late 19th century picked another spot (the so-called "Garden Tomb") as the actual site, but not a single scholar agrees with him. As I have pointed out before (and others have pointed out here), the tomb was not venerated at least in part because a pagan temple was built on top of it. Attitudes also changed in the 4th century regarding the veneration of holy places in general. I know you won't read it, but this is spelled out in P.W.L. Walker's Holy City, Holy Places.
              Please provide quotes from anyone in the first or second century who mention anything about the location of the Empty Tomb or that people had been venerating the tomb since the day it had been found empty.

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              • Originally posted by Gary View Post
                Please provide quotes from anyone in the first or second century who mention anything about the location of the Empty Tomb or that people had been venerating the tomb since the day it had been found empty.
                Please provide a legitimate reason why people needed to write down a location, in a predominantly oral society, in order to remember it.
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                • Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                  Please provide a legitimate reason why people needed to write down a location, in a predominantly oral society, in order to remember it.
                  Spin, spin, spin.

                  Why did they need to write the Gospels then?

                  Why didn't Peter say anything about the Empty Tomb during his sermon on Pentecost? Thousands and thousands of people are converting in Jerusalem...but then a few decades later, no one knows where the dead leader's tomb is.

                  Baloney.

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                  • I forgot to mention: An unheard of before or since solar eclipse of three hours occurs on the day of this man's death....and...two earthquakes, dead people roaming the streets, the appearance of angels, Temple veil tears down the middle, the dead man appears to over five hundred people in multiple locations in Judea and Galilee, and then a crowd watches him levitate into the clouds...

                    but a few decades later...everyone forgets the location of his tomb!

                    Fiction, folks! The Empty Tomb tale is an obvious work of fiction! Only someone who really, really, really wants to believe it is true is going to buy this tall tale.

                    Now Pigster (and I'm sure Nick) will claim that that first century Christians didn't need to write this down as everyone maintained its location by oral tradition. Ok. But how about later when Christians were writing things down? Where are the statements in the late second century about Christians traveling to Jerusalem to visit the Empty Tomb? And don't give me any evangelical baloney that Christians of that time did not venerate holy places and holy relics. We know they did.

                    Why the complete and utter silence as to the location of the greatest event to have ever occurred on planet Earth???????


                    And why did they eventually forget it's location?
                    Last edited by Gary; 05-18-2016, 12:00 PM.

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                    • Originally posted by Gary View Post
                      Spin, spin, spin.

                      Why did they need to write the Gospels then?

                      Why didn't Peter say anything about the Empty Tomb during his sermon on Pentecost? Thousands and thousands of people are converting in Jerusalem...but then a few decades later, no one knows where the dead leader's tomb is.

                      Baloney.
                      Peter did mention the empty tomb on Pentecost. Acts 2:24-32.
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                      • Originally posted by Gary View Post
                        Spin, spin, spin.

                        Why did they need to write the Gospels then?
                        Gee, which is easier to remember - a location, or the distillation of 3 years of teaching and events?
                        Why didn't Peter say anything about the Empty Tomb during his sermon on Pentecost?
                        Peter certainly made the claim that Jesus had been raised from the dead; that the tomb in which he had been buried was therefore empty is sort of a no-brainer. On the other hand, do you think that ancient people were stupid and gullible, and without knowing anything other than what Peter said in 2 minutes, they converted? Peter certainly said more that was recorded, and the crowd would certainly have been cognizant of recent events.
                        Thousands and thousands of people are converting in Jerusalem...but then a few decades later, no one knows where the dead leader's tomb is.

                        Baloney.
                        Yes, your idea that no one knew where the tomb was a few decades later is indeed baloney.
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                        • Originally posted by DesertBerean View Post
                          Peter did mention the empty tomb on Pentecost. Acts 2:24-32.
                          Acts 2:24-32

                          24 But God raised him up, having freed him from death,[a] because it was impossible for him to be held in its power. 25 For David says concerning him,

                          ‘I saw the Lord always before me,
                          for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken;

                          26
                          therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;
                          moreover my flesh will live in hope.

                          27
                          For you will not abandon my soul to Hades,
                          or let your Holy One experience corruption.

                          28
                          You have made known to me the ways of life;
                          you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

                          29 “Fellow Israelites,[b] I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would put one of his descendants on his throne. 31 Foreseeing this, David[c] spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah,[d] saying,

                          ‘He was not abandoned to Hades,
                          nor did his flesh experience corruption.’

                          32 This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses.


                          Gary: Nope. No mention of an Empty Tomb.

                          (You are assuming that when Peter says that God had "raised him up" that this means "raised him up from Arimathea's hand-hewn family rock mausoleum". It says no such thing. Skeptics do not dispute that the earliest Christians believed that God had raised Jesus up from whereever his dead remains had been located; to then appear to them, and then go to heaven. We dispute that the earliest Christians knew of a hand-hewn rock mausoleum. Paul never mentions an "empty tomb".)
                          Last edited by Gary; 05-18-2016, 12:13 PM.

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                          • Originally posted by Gary View Post
                            (You are assuming that when Peter says that God had "raised him up" that this means "raised him up from Arimathea's hand-hewn family rock mausoleum". It says no such thing. Skeptics do not dispute that the earliest Christians believed that God had raised Jesus up from whereever his dead remains had been located; to then appear to them, and then go to heaven. We dispute that the earliest Christians knew of a hand-hewn rock mausoleum. Paul never mentions an "empty tomb".)
                            So if I claimed that my grandmother was physically resurrected from the grave you wouldn't see that as a statement that her casket was empty?
                            Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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                            • And as OBP pointed out, Peter certainly said a lot more than what was written down...v 40: "And he testified with many other arguments and exhorted them,..." plus the witnesses of the risen Jesus who had been with them 40 days before he ascended (some of them firsthand witnesses of the empty tomb) certainly knew where to find the tomb.
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                              • Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                                Gee, which is easier to remember - a location, or the distillation of 3 years of teaching and events?

                                Peter certainly made the claim that Jesus had been raised from the dead; that the tomb in which he had been buried was therefore empty is sort of a no-brainer. On the other hand, do you think that ancient people were stupid and gullible, and without knowing anything other than what Peter said in 2 minutes, they converted? Peter certainly said more that was recorded, and the crowd would certainly have been cognizant of recent events.

                                Yes, your idea that no one knew where the tomb was a few decades later is indeed baloney.
                                I and many scholars doubt the historicity of the alleged events on Pentecost.

                                What is more important is that Paul never mentions an Empty Tomb in his seven epistles nor does any other early Christian writer mention the location of this tomb in their writings.

                                It never existed

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