Fw: Fw: Senses the only access to reality?
Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:06:32 -0500 (00889434392, 19980309025808.AAA11184@briandea)
>CREA
> You're absolutely right. They DO all agree that it happened. The
>problem lies in the fact that the Gospel writers all give conflicting
>accounts of this alleged event. This lack of consensus on the details
>necessarily affects the reliability/trustworthiness of their common
>testimony that there even was a resurrection in the first place, as well as
>leaving us wondering which witness/es to believe and which to doubt.
>
> Consider for a moment, if you will, the following scenario. You are the
>owner/manager of a convenience store. Late one evening you get a phone
>call from the police saying that there has been a robbery reported at your
>store. The three clerks have all been questioned by the police and their
>statements recorded. Later, when you receive copies of the statements and
>proceed to read them, you discover that (1) the clerks cannot agree on
>whether the robber is male or female (two say male, one says female);
>(2) they cannot agree on whether the robber was armed or not (one says
>armed, the second says unarmed, and the third says that the robber made
>menacing motions with something hidden in his/her pocket); (3) they cannot
>agree on how the robber escaped (two say by car, one says on foot). In the
>instances where there is agreement between two clerks, they continue to
>diagree over details of height, hair & eye color, clean-shaven or beard/moustache,
>clothing, tattoos, color/make/model of car etc.
>
> Remember, Claire, they ALL agree that there was a robbery. And there is
>money missing from the till. What do you think? Do you agree with them
>that there was a robbery, or do you disagree, and why?
RON
Where are the specifics of the gospels? A story about store clerks
proves nothing.