$4,000.00 Reward (Nielsen, Till, Henschell & Billings)
Ian & Pam Dorion dorioni@ipa.net
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:12:58 -0600 (00889675978, 199803112215.QAA06011@thunder.ipa.net)
> >> RALPH (March 10)
> >> Here is my version:
> >>
> >> $4,000 REWARD!
> >>
> >> Tell us exactly what happened on the first Easter and win $4,000!
> >>
> >> Read:
> >>
> >> Matthew 28
> >> Mark 16
> >> Luke 24
> >> John 20 & 21
> >> Acts 1:3-12
> >> 1 Corinthians 15:3-8
> >>
> >> Then, without omitting a single detail from the accounts, write one
> >> consistent narrative - with scriptural citations - of the events from
the
> >> Resurrection to the Ascension of Jesus Christ.
> >>
> >> Then mail your claim for $4,000 REWARD to:
> >>
> >> RESURRECTION REWARD
> >> PO Box 3127
> >> Moscow ID 83843-1906
> >>
> >
IAN
OK, I'll add Acts 1:3 - 12
>
> RALPH
> OK, Ian, I agree with your remark. Actually, I was trying to reword your
> sentence to make it sound less ambiguous. You had written: "This reward
is
> offered by four $1,000.00 contributors." One could ask, what is a "$1,000
> contributor"? How about, "Four Bible readers have offered $1,000 each for
> this reward."? (Fancy punctuation, eh?)
IAN
Hmmm. Let's see what the other three say. It still sounds a little
underhanded to me.
>
> I found some reward offers printed some years ago. They contain the Acts
> reference (Acts 1:3-12) to the Ascension. I would not include the Acts
> 13:29 reference because the challenge begins at Easter morning. The
> crucifixion and burial acounts don't agree, either, but that could be
> another reward offer. (I do have another $1,000 reward offer on the
> Genealogy and Nativity of Jesus Christ. I spread it before Xmas.)
>
> I await your further comments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ralph
>