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Earthquake magnified
Some indications of seismic activity in the Dead Sea area 26 to 36 CE is used to specify April 3, 33 CE as the date of the Crucifixion of Jesus. Seems not to add anything we knew from the gospels, as Pontius Pilate has already been dated to those same ten years.
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The very sources which state there was an Earthquake also claimed Jesus was the Son of a Ghost and that on the day of the same quake DEAD people came back to life and was seen in the Holy City. When will the Human race be relieved of such Myth Fables and those who propagate Blatant nonsense as if in a dream world. This is the 21st century and it is time for the Human race to rise up against these Myth Fables. The Human race DESERVE BETTER. The human race is BEING DECEIVED. |
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it is pretty weak to tie in a 4 year period of a quake, to a single day based on material known to contain mythology.
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That's got nothing on Deepak Chopra.
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/04/05/ch...or-baja-quake/ '...The U.S. Geological Survey is blaming day-to-day seismological changes for Sunday's 7.2 earthquake along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Deepak Chopra, the famed alternative-medicine practitioner and transcendental meditation guru, is pretty sure he knows what really happened. "Had a powerful meditation just now -- caused an earthquake in Southern California," Chopra wrote to his nearly 179,000 Twitter followers shortly after the quake...' |
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This is freaking hilarious. It's what Robert Price continually refers to as "Protestant Rationalism." It says it in the Bible, so it must be true, but God's creation is perfect and requires no divine intervention, so look for some naturalistic explanation.
Here is Mark Goodacre on this: blog post Quote:
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Mark Goodacre understands the earthquake is NOT history but Gobbles up the part where Jesus was born in gMatthew. |
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Either that or they were flying by the seat of their pants, and modern science has proven them lucky. Of course, some, like Sotto Voce, would argue that this supports "the veracity of the gospels". Including gMatthew's Night of the Living Dead. |
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"And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." So, Saints came up out of their graves like zombies and went into the city to appear to many, but nobody noticed? They can't even find credible evidence for the existence of Jesus, but an earthquake proves his crucifixion date? These Geologists must come from Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. |
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