First and Last Words
According to the bible, Mary and Joseph knew that they were to be the parents of God’s child —and according to Christian doctrine—God himself. Think about it. Parents of God. Wow! You would think they would’ve recorded each and every baby God word, every toddler God word and every teenage God word—well maybe not all the teenage God words.
But surely we know exactly what Jesus said before dying on the cross. And anyway, these words from the mouth of an adult God would seem even more important than words uttered from a baby God. Let us turn to his “inerrant” Word.
Both the Gospels of Matthew and Mark tell us that Jesus’ last words were, “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?” (How exactly God abandoned himself is not explained).
The Gospel of Luke says Jesus’ last words before dying were, “Father! In your hands I place my spirit!” Not only completely different words but totally opposite notions as well. In the one story, Jesus is alone, actually abandoned by God. In the other story, Jesus and God are involved in the most intimate of transactions.
The Gospel of John casts yet more doubt on the reliability of the scriptures as he writes that Jesus’ last words were “It is finished!”
Add to these inconsistencies the fact the bible contradicts itself on the year Jesus was born, the fact the five different accounts of the supposed resurrection defy harmonization and the fact we do not even know who wrote the gospels and we are left not with consistent reasonable historical accounts from respected historians but a mishmash of contradictions from anonymous authors.
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I agree that these inconsistencies cast doubt on the truth of the entire story. Even more so, I think, is the timing - the fact that the gospels were written many years after the fact, and in spite of Jesus' many miracles, there does not seem to be a single historical record of these incredible events from witnesses.
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