Bible Contradictions

Origins of Modern Christianity - How Paulianity was Manufactured

Jesus, Interrupted by Bart D. Ehrman

The problems with the Bible-that New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman discussed in his New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus-are expanded exponentially in his new book JESUS, INTERRUPTED. Here we find not only that Christian scribes altered the texts of their sacred Scripture, but also that the books of Scripture themselves, in their original forms, are often completely at odds with one another on such key issues as:

• Who Jesus was and how salvation works
• Why the New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christians living decades later
• Did Paul, Matthew, John, and Jesus represent different religions?
• How standard Christian doctrines were the inventions of still later theologians

These are not idiosyncratic perspectives of just one modern scholar: as Ehrman skillfully demonstrates, they have been the standard and widespread views of critical scholars for over a century. Why is it that most people have never heard such things? As Ehrman argues, it is because scholars have failed to communicate their findings with the general public, and because pastors who learn this information when studying for the ministry have chosen not to share it with the people in the pews.

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
ISBN: 9780061173936

Produced, Shot, and Edited by Abby Berendt

Finally top Bible scholar "Professor Bart D. Ehrman" leaves Christianity.

Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar and textual critic of early Christianity. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written about how the original New Testament texts were frequently altered by scribes for a variety of reasons, and argues that these alterations affect the interpretation of the texts.
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Misquoting Jesus, Stanford Lecture, How the Bible is Tainted

"Misquoting Jesus: Scribes Who Altered Scripture and Readers Who May Never Know," a textual criticism of Biblical manuscript tampering by Bart Ehrman, Professor or Religious Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kabane The Christian vs Matt Dillahunty - The Atheist Experience #606

Kabane The Christian vs Matt Dillahunty On The Historicity Of The Gospels And The Authorship Of Matthew - The Atheist Experience #606 with Matt Dillahunty and Don Baker.

TV Interview with Joseph Atwill - The Roman Creation of Christianity

Joseph Atwill author of Caesar's Messiah on Rodeph Emet TV explains that the Gospels are good news of military victory. Why would the Romans go to the trouble of writing and disseminating such a text? The Jewish War, culminating in the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE, had devastated the Mediterranean economy, and the Romans were anxious to prevent another messianic outbreak, which could easily lead to another 500,000 deaths-as the Bar Kochba revolt would demonstrate a generation later. In order to make any reconstruction of the country lasting, the Romans needed to offer the Jews alternative stories that would distract them from the messianic messages inherent in the Torah, and persuade them to accept Roman values. http://www.RodephEmet.org

Christians, get your days straight

Some Christians appear to be quite confused about the biblical contradictions mentioned in a lighthearted way in "Brief Bible Blunders -- Episode #3" video.

This video should help clarify things for them and bring the contradictions in more pronounced relief.

Link to "Brief Bible Blunders -- Episode #3":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7cBWm...

Do you know your bible?

Exploring some of the lesser known passages of the bible, especially in light of the biblical literalism that seems so rampant in America.

Making A Messiah: What Do We Know About The New Testament Authors?

"Making a Messiah, Part 1: What do we know about the NT authors?" by
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The first part in a new video series, exploring the role the New Testament authors played in shaping the character of Jesus Christ into their vision of the Jewish messiah.




Second video in a new series exploring the role of the New Testament authors in shaping the character of Jesus Christ into their vision of the Jewish messiah.

The third video in a series exploring the role of the New Testament authors in shaping the character of Jesus Christ into their vision of the Jewish messiah.

The fourth video in a series exploring the role of the New Testament authors in shaping the character of Jesus Christ into their vision of the Jewish messiah.

Making a Messiah, Pt. 4 (The not-so-good news)

The fifth video in a series exploring the role of the New Testament authors in shaping the character of Jesus Christ into their vision of the Jewish messiah.

Making a Messiah, Pt. 5 (Sacrifice denied)

The sixth video in a series exploring the role of the New Testament authors in shaping the character of Jesus Christ into their vision of the Jewish messiah.

Making a Messiah, Pt. 6 (The second coming - coming soon!)

The seventh video in a series exploring the role of the New Testament authors in shaping the character of Jesus Christ into their vision of the Jewish messiah.

Making a Messiah, Pt. 7 (Was Jesus a false prophet?)

The eighth and final video in a series exploring the role of the New Testament authors in shaping the character of Jesus Christ into their vision of the Jewish messiah.

Making a Messiah, Pt. 8 (Disciples who suffered and died for a lie)

Bible Contradictions: Jesus's Tomb (The Atheist Experience #600 with Russell Glasser and Jeff Dee).

Bible Contradictions: Jesus's Tomb (The Atheist Experience #600 with Russell Glasser and Jeff Dee).

The True Core Of The Jesus Myth - Christopher Hitchens @ FreedomFest

The True Core Of The Jesus Myth - Christopher Hitchens @ FreedomFest



Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens go at it again at the 2008 Freedom Fest as the "Main Event".

FreedomFest is an annual festival where "free minds meet" to celebrate "great books, great ideas, and great thinkers" in an open-minded society. It is independent, non-partisan, and not affiliated with any organization or think tank.

Founded and produced by Mark Skousen, since 2002, FreedomFest invites the "best and the brightest" from around the world to talk, strategize, socialize, and celebrate liberty. FreedomFest is open to all and is purely egalitarian, where speakers, attendees, and exhibitors are treated as equals.

http://www.freedomfest.com/

Christopher Hitchens (born 1949) is an author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens is also a political observer, whose books — the latest being "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" — have made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits.

In 2009 Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "25 most influential liberals in U.S. media." The same article noted, though, that he would "likely be aghast to find himself on this list" and that he "styles himself a radical", not a liberal.

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Jesus is Satan the Morning Star

by ChucksterOLove

These are 2 different Creations.

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY. 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the heavens, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SECOND DAY. 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE THIRD DAY. 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FOURTH DAY. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIFTH DAY. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after his his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw everything which he had made, and, behold, it was very good. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SIXTH DAY.

Genesis Chapter 2

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the SEVENTH day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the SEVENTH day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the SEVENTH day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
ADAM AND EVE WERE NOT FIRST.




This is part 2 of 7 videos that describe exactly why Jesus is Satan, the Morning Star. The reason Christians cannot see this obvious truth is because they are reading the Bible BACKWARDS. They are taught to read the New Testament before they read or understand the Old Testament.

Part 2 asks 'If Adam and Eve were 1st, then where did CAIN'S WIFE come from?' She was one of GOD'S people from the 6th day, because the 2 tellings of Creation are NOT about the same Creation as the Christian Church teaches.

That also explains why the generations of Adam list changes from plural to singular form in Genesis 5:2-3. Genesis 5:2 and 5:3 are also clearly separated by a 'new paragraph' symbol. That's because these are NOT 2 tellings of the same Creation, they are 2 different Creations.




This is part 3 of 7 videos that describe exactly why Jesus is Satan, the Morning Star. The reason Christians cannot see this obvious truth is because they are reading the Bible BACKWARDS. They are taught to read the New Testament before they read or understand the Old Testament.

Part 3 discusses the Church/man made concept of the TRINITY and how it has no Old Testament Biblical basis. This is a man made concept that man is trying to retroactively superimpose back in time. The Trinity doesn't even make it off the first page of the Bible. On the 7th day GOD rests, sanctifies the 7th day, then the LORD God begins working.

The Trinity is a ridiculous attempt to make GOD, the LORD God, and the LORD all the SAME being. If they are all GOD, then why wouldn't they ALL just be called God? And if they are all the same, then why is it always the LORD God of Israel and not GOD of Israel? Because they are NOT the same beings.

GOD is God, the LORD God is Satan the LORD of this World, and the LORD is Satan physically come to earth to interact with people. That's the truth that the concept of the Trinity tries to retroactively cover up. These are 3 separate beings, they are not the same.




This is part 4 of 7 videos that describe exactly why Jesus is Satan, the Morning Star. The reason why Christians cannot see this obvious truth is because they are reading the Bible BACKWARDS. They are taught to read the New Testament before they read or understand the Old Testament.

Part 4 touches on some stories to connect the LORD God, the LORD, and Satan together. On the 7th day the LORD God Satan blasphemed against God by making Adam and working. And that LORD God and LORD tandem sure do their share of wicked stuff, don't they? They are always angry and jealous and fiery... because they are the non physical and physical forms of SATAN, not God.

Satan has many forms and goes by many different names. The Devil, the Morning Star, Appolyon, Abbadon, Beelzebub, the Accuser, the Opposer, Lucifer, the LORD of this World, and Belial just to name a few. He has many names and forms because if he only had one name he would be too easy to identify. Contrary to popular belief, He is all over the Bible. Christians are just taught not to see him.




This is part 5 of 7 videos that describe exactly why Jesus is Satan, the Morning Star. The reason why Christians cannot see this obvious truth is because they are reading the Bible BACKWARDS. They are taught to read the New Testament before they read or understand the Old Testament.

Part 5 is about how Isaiah 14:12 calls LUCIFER the Morning Star, then JESUS calls himself the Morning Star all throughout the New Testament. It also covers how Christianity is just covert Astrology and Sun worship.

No matter what translation you want to use, they are all saying the same thing in Isaiah 14:12. 'Morning Star', 'son of the morning', 'son of the dawn', 'star of the morning', 'Lucifer', 'o shining one', they are all talking about the same thing. They are all clear references to the SUN.

Christmas is really the Winter Solstice, a cycle of the SUN. Easter is the Vernal Equinox, a cycle of the SUN. In most pictures of Jesus, there will be a SUN somewhere on it. Wake up and smell the sunshine already....




This is part 6 of 7 videos that describe exactly why Jesus is Satan, the Morning Star. The reason why Christians cannot see this obvious truth is because they are reading the Bible BACKWARDS. They are taught to read the New Testament before they read or understand the Old Testament.

Part 6 is about stories in the New Testament that show that Jesus is far from sinless and that Jesus is Satan. I'm not sure what book you're all reading, but Jesus is not all that good if you read the fine print. He was a Kabbalist magician who pulled the wool over the eyes of many people.

Jesus was sinless, eh? He tells his followers to KILL anyone that will not take him as their king in Luke 19:27. He says he will KILL Jezebel's children in Rev 2:23. What part about 'Thou shalt not KILL' don't you people understand?

Not only that, Jesus exhibits blatantly HOMOSEXUAL behavior with his disciples in John Chapter 13. I don't know about you, but I don't get naked and wash my male friends. That's because I'm a heterosexual, only gays get naked and wash each other....




This is part 7 of 7 videos describing exactly why Jesus is Satan, the Morning Star. The reason why Christians cannot see this obvious truth is because they are reading the Bible BACKWARDS. They are taught to read the New Testament before they read or understand the Old Testament.

Part 7 touches upon some other early Biblical stories that give it away that the 2 stories of Creation in Genesis are NOT about the same Creation.

If these were 2 stories about the same Creation, then why would Cain need a mark to protect him? He is being banished to the Land of Nod away from his parents, and therefore wouldn't have anyone else that could possibly kill him, right?? WRONG, God's people from the 6th day are there, and that's why the LORD humors Cain and puts a mark on him to protect him.

Who Wrote the Bible?

Who Wrote the Bible? Is the Bible the Word of God? Why is the Bible full of Contradictions? This documentary explores questions at the heart of the great Christian faith in a fair open-minded fashion. It is NOT meant to be inflammatory but informative. The truth one will see is the Bible is NOT what it is thought to be. So what is the Bible?

Banned From The Bible - The History Channel

Christian Idiocy part 9 & 10

Part 9 - Ridiculous Bible stories taken seriously.


Part 10 - Is the Gospel unique?

The God Who Wasn't There - History of the Gospels

A fascinating summary of the gospels and Paul's writings.

What really happens if you follow the Bible?

The Bible explains precisely what will happen if people actually started following its entirety: 

You will be:

1.) Delivered up to councils and scourged.

2.) Brought before governors and kings.

3.) Your brother (if you have one) will deliver you up to be murdered.

4.) Your father will deliver you up to be murdered.

5.) Your children will deliver you up to be murdered.

6.) You will be hated by all mankind.

The Resurrection Hoax

The Resurrection Hoax:

By Abdullah Kareem

 

 

The resurrection of Jesus is a hoax because Mark, the earliest gospel, never contained the story. The “resurrection” passages were later added to Mark, and his gospel was changed by Matthew and Luke, the Gospel writers are anonymous. It was necessary for Matthew and Luke to change Mark according to their own understanding, they also relied upon the Q source. Regarding the Gospel of John, it’s completely different and draws upon ambiguous sources. The oldest manuscripts of the New Testament are Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, both of these Greek manuscripts have no ending for Mark!

Mark is the first gospel to be written:



A central working hypothesis of this book and one of the most widely held findings in modem New Testament study is that Mark was the first canonical Gospel to be composed and that the authors of Matthew and Luke (and possibly John) used Mark's Gospel as a written source. (Randal Helms, Gospel Fictions, p. 23)



Mark was the first writer to record the crucifixion, yet he was NOT an eye-witness!


“The author of Mark, the earliest of the narrative gospels, was not an eyewitness: he is reporting information conveyed to him by a third person or persons, who themselves were quite possible not eye-witnesses” (Robert Walter Funk, The Jesus Seminar: The Acts of Jesus, p. 4)


Here is what Christian scholar Mack Burton says:


“There is no reference to Jesus’ death as a crucifixion in the pre-Markan Jesus material” (Who Wrote the New Testament? p. 87)


This means the Gospel writers fabricated the resurrection story. The legend of Jesus’ “resurrection” developed over a period of time. This explains why Paul, the earliest Christian writer, never records the Gospel version. Paul only says Jesus was “crucified for the sins of mankind” and he “rose from the dead”, which does not explain anything.


Paul asserts that Jesus was crucified, yet he fails to mention any details which would later be recorded in the gospels.


We must keep in mind that Paul knew nothing of an event called the ascension that was separate or different from Jesus' resurrection. Paul's writings contain no hint of the two-stage process that would develop later, where resurrection brought Jesus from the grave back to life and ascension then took Jesus from earth to heaven. Paul's proclamation was that God had raised Jesus into God's very life. That was Easter for Paul. For Paul there were no empty tombs, no disappearance from the grave of the physical body, no physical resurrection, no physical appearances of a Christ who would eat fish, offer his wounds for inspection, or rise physically into the sky after an appropriate length of time. None of these ideas can be found in reading Paul. For Paul the body of Jesus who died was perishable, weak, physical. The Jesus who was raised was clothed by the raising God with a body fit for God's kingdom. It was imperishable, glorified, and spiritual. (John Shelby Spong, Resurrection: Myth or Reality, p. 241)


The most striking feature of the early documents is that they do not set Jesus’ life in a specific historical situation. There is no Galilean ministry, and there are no parables, no miracles, no Passion in Jerusalem, no indication of time, place of attendant circumstances at all. The words Calvary, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Galilee never appear in the early epistles, and the word Jerusalem is never used there in connection with Jesus (Doherty, pp. 68, 73). Instead, Jesus figures as a basically supernatural personage who took the “likeness” of man, “emptied” then of his supernatural powers Phil 2:7. (G.A. Wells, Can We Trust the New Testament? p. 3)


Paul’s account of Jesus’ resurrection contradicts the Gospels:


The first thing we need to force into our minds is that when Paul wrote these words, there were no such things as written Gospels. This means that the accounts of Jesus’ resurrection so familiar to us, as told by these Gospel writers, were by and large unknown to Paul and to Paul’s readers (Resurrection: Myth or Reality?, p. 48)


For Paul there were no empty tombs, no disappearance from the grave of the physical body, no physical resurrection, no physical appearances of a Christ who would eat fish, offer his wounds for inspection, or rise physically into the sky after an appropriate length of time. None of these ideas can be found in reading Paul. For Paul the body of Jesus who died was perishable, weak, physical. The Jesus who was raised was clothed by the raising God with a body fit for God's kingdom. It was imperishable, glorified, and spiritual. (ibid, p. 241)


What does this mean? The resurrection accounts in the four Gospels contradict the testimony of Paul. Hence, Paul contradicts the Gospels on a simple event which is supposed to be the foundation of Christian religion.


If Paul is the first writer, then he must be relaying the earliest tradition, yet the Gospels, written many decades later, record an entirely different story. This certainly proves that the resurrection was fabricated in the oral tradition, because there’s not a single reference to the resurrection by historians like Philo Judaeus, and the testimony of Josephus is wholly agreed to be a forgery.


Paul contradicts the Gospels:


'For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than 500 brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.' 1 Corinthians 15:3-9


There are several problems with this passage.


(1). There was no “third day” prophecy in the Old Testament. [1]
(2). There is no evidence that five-hundred people saw Jesus. [2]

(3). Paul says Jesus first appeared to Peter, yet the Gospels say Jesus first appeared to women! (Matt 28:1)

(4). Peter disbelieved that Jesus was alive (resurrected).

(5). Paul implies that Judas did not hang himself, he was still alive (contradicts Matt. 27:5).

(6). Paul describes the body of Jesus to be spiritual (1Cor 15:42). Yet the Gospels say Jesus was physical.


Mark does not have the resurrection:


All things considered, then, Mark does not begin his story of Jesus very satisfactorily. Indeed, within two or three decades of Mark's completion, there were at least two, and perhaps three, different writers (or Christian groups) who felt the need to produce an expanded and corrected version. Viewed from their perspective, the Gospel of Mark has some major shortcomings: It contains no birth narrative; it implies that Jesus, a repentant sinner, became the Son of God only at his baptism; it recounts no resurrection appearances; and it ends with the very unsatisfactory notion that the women who found the Empty Tomb were too afraid to speak to anyone about it. (Randal Helms, Gospel Fictions, p. 34)


Almost all contemporary New Testament textual critics have concluded that neither the longer or shorter endings were originally part of Mark’s Gospel, though the evidence of the early church fathers above shows that the longer ending had become accepted tradition. The United Bible Societies' 4th edition of the Greek New Testament (1993) rates the omission of verses 9-20 from the original Markan manuscript as "certain." For this reason, many modern Bibles decline to print the longer ending of Mark together with the rest of the gospel, but, because of its historical importance and prominence, it is often included as a footnote or an appendix alongside the shorter ending. [1]


The Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus do not record the resurrection:


Matthew 16:2 f. is omitted, Mark ends at 16:8, Luke 22:43 f., John 5:4 and the Pericope de adultera are omitted. The doxology of Romans comes after 16:23. Hebrews follow immediately after II Thessalonians. [2]


The ‘Longer Ending’ of Mark is preserved in the Byzantine texts, which are interpolated. The Anglican scholars Westcott and Hort discredited the Byzantine (KJV) text. Yet, the oldest Greek manuscripts do not have the longer ending. The Alexandrian (NIV) omits the longer ending (Aleph and B). The Anglican scholars Westcott and Hort attest the Byzantine text was conflated in the 4th century.


There are no Byzantine manuscripts before the fourth century when Lucian of Syria conflated the various readings and produced what became the Byzantine or Traditional Text. We know this is true because we have no Byzantine readings before the middle of the fourth century, but we do have Alexandrian and Western readings. Therefore, any second century reading which supports the third or fourth century readings of the Alexandrian line are considered important and are offered as proof that these textual lines are more original than the Byzantine line. However, if a reading is found in these very same manuscripts which agrees with the fourth century Byzantine reading, it is considered unimportant and unconsequential. [1]


In Antioch the early form was polished stylistically, edited ecclesiastically, and expanded devotionally. This was the origin of what is called the Koine text, later to become the Byzantine Imperial text. Forth century tradition called it the text of Lucian. [2]


Hort characterized the Byzantine text as 'late, conflated, heavily edited and revised', whereas Hort extolled the Alexandrian text as 'pure, primitive, carefully corrected, and neutral’.


The Gospels are clear that no one witnessed Jesus’ resurrection. It was seen by NO ONE.


Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. (Mark 16:14)


It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. (Luke 24:10-11)


The Greek and Roman historians


Very few Christians know that Gentile historians NEVER mentioned the resurrection of Jesus. The Jewish philosopher Philo (50 CE) absolutely makes no reference to Jesus’ crucifixion. The Christians are embarrassed that Philo lived during Jesus’ lifetime and never mentioned his resurrection.


After the departure of Jesus, his teachings spread to North Africa and Egypt, but he was not popular or widely known.


The following writers do not mention Jesus’ resurrection:

Philo-Judaeus
Arrian
Appian
Theon of Smyrna
Lucanus
Aulus Gellius
Seneca
Plutarch
Apollonius
Epictetus
Silius Italicus
Ptolemy

We challenge Christians to prove his resurrection. None of these writers mentioned Jesus’ resurrection.