$4,000.00 Reward (The Resurrection from Mr. Jackson)
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 08:37:34 -0800 (00889828654, 2.2.32.19980313163734.0070d414@midwest.net)
At 08:31 PM 3/12/98 -0000, J. Michael McGill wrote:
>MCGILL(3/12)
>There is a Fundamentalist Bible teacher at my work named Michael Jackson
>(no not the performer of "thriller"). Mr. Jackson and I often get into
>conversation about Bible errancy. He believes the Bible is the Word of
>God, I do not. He is a Christian, I am a Deist/Agnostic. Mr. Jackson has
>went to Bible seminary and preaches often here in the San Diego area. On
>one occasion we were discussing the sun standing still in the Book Of
>Joshua, and he told me that NASA scientist had found a missing day of the
>earth with their computers, I doubted that and he said he would bring me
>the article on it. I said I would like to see it. Weeks passed and he
>never brought it to me. I did a search on the Internet and found out that
>story of the missing day being found by NASA scientist was a myth, false,
>even Christian groups recognized this. I printed the material and showed
>it to him. He didn't have much to say about that, other than he thought
>(past tense now) it was true (about NASA finding a missing day).
>
>I printed out the $4,000 resurrection reward and other posts from Errancy
>and gave it to him, challenging him to harmonize the different accounts
>of the Gospel and resurrection. He read the material, made notes on them,
>and gave me some papers called "Harmony Of The Gospels". Mr. Jackson
>claimed the Gospels were Harmonized a long time ago. I said I doubt that,
>show me. After he gave me the papers he asked me to post his comments and
>what the "Harmony Of The Gospels" said about the resurrection through the
>Ascension without changing anything, I said I would and I will print it
>out for him as well as any responses or replies to it. Well here is
>"Harmony Of Gospels, With Jesus in the resurrection through the Ascension
>in 12 events". Looking at it I can see many problems, things left out
>etc...but I will leave it up to the other members of the list to attack
>it first, then I will jump in.
>
>"A.D.30 Dawn of First Day lord's Day (1) Women Visit the Tomb Near
>Jerusalem (Matthew 28:1-10), (Mark 16:1-8), (Luke 24:1-11).
>
TILL
We can stop right here. He made no reference at all to the spices that the
women brought to the tomb, and there is a serious difficulty involved in
harmonizing what all of the accounts say about the spices.
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net