HokiePundit You know, something just
April 04, 2002
HokiePundit You know, something just occurred to me. I'm sick of the "I'll only believe in God if he proves himself uncategorically to me" argument against belief in general and Christianity in particular.
The above is actually rather ironic, in light of the demand for proof the Apostles demanded when Christ appeared before them in the upper room. The writers of the Gospels knew that something approaching proof was going to be required, after all, it had been 40 years or so before anyone putpen to paper and actually wrote down what supposedly happened on those fatefull days. Indeed, they progressively made the Ressurection story more and more fabulous, with more and more witnesses thrown in, just to deal with the problems of time and the nature of their claims. The earliest versions of the Gospel of Mark had a great, Rod Serling ending to the passion play, with a rolled away stone, an empty toomb and a little boy telling the stoppers by that they'd just missed Jesus. Another generation later, by the time The Gospel of John is written, we've got a bunch of angels in the air, a gagle of women who've seen him on the road and an assembly of apostles able to stick their fingers in the holes in Jesus's hands.
That's acutally pretty close to Hollywood writing if you ask me. No subltely. Easy to understand by even the simplest of souls. It sells tickets today and, obviously, did so then as well.
Posted by Jody at April 4, 2002 10:51 AM
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