#TheGospels #Contradict Themselves!
Dr. James Barker
#gospel #contradictions #myths #bible #christian
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#TheGospels #Contradict Themselves!
Dr. James Barker
#gospel #contradictions #myths #bible #christian
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GMz...
A wedding guest shows up in his own clothes, refusing the garment the king gave every guest. He's thrown out. You can't enter the kingdom in your own good works. #Bible #TheGospels
Jesus tells the religious leaders that tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of them. Not because those two groups were better, but because they repented and the leaders wouldn't. #Bible #TheGospels
A man carpooled with a coworker for decades. At the funeral, he admitted he never once brought up the Lord or even told him he was a Christian. "And how I regret that now." #Bible #TheGospels
The priests charged pilgrims a temple entrance fee, then rejected their animals so they'd have to buy overpriced ones on site. Jesus called it extortion in the name of religion and flipped the tables. #Bible #TheGospels
Voltaire predicted the end of Christianity. After he died, his home was bought by the Geneva Bible Society and used to distribute Bibles. Opposing Christ is a hopeless task. #Bible #TheGospels
Mary breaks open a bottle of perfume worth a year's wages and pours it on Jesus's feet. Judas calls it waste. Jesus calls it beautiful. #Bible #TheGospels
Jesus stops under a sycamore tree and calls a man by name He's never met. Zacchaeus climbed up just to catch a glimpse. He came down to host the Messiah in his own home. #Bible #TheGospels
Jesus just told His disciples—for the third time—that He's about to be mocked, flogged, and killed. James and John's response? Asking for the best seats in the kingdom. #Bible #TheGospels
There's a legend about a "Needle Gate" in Jerusalem that camels could squeeze through if they knelt. It isn't true. Jesus meant a literal camel and a literal needle—salvation really is that impossible without God. #Bible #TheGospels
The disciples treated children like an interruption. Jesus treated them like the point. "Let the little children come to me"—not despite the ministry, but because of it. #Bible #TheGospels
A widow keeps showing up in front of a judge who couldn't care less about justice. He finally gives in just to get her off his back. Jesus says that's not what praying to God is like. #Bible #TheGospels
The Pharisees demand another kingdom miracle. Jesus says the kingdom isn't coming with signs to observe—it's standing right in front of them, and they still don't see it. #Bible #TheGospels
Jesus tells ten lepers to go show themselves to the priest—before a single one of them is healed. They had to start walking on faith alone. "And as they went they were cleansed." #Bible #TheGospels
Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus—and when He heard Lazarus was sick, He waited two extra days before going. He wasn't being careless. He was about to reveal power over the grave, not just sickness. #Bible #TheGospels
What do you do with someone who sinned against you and never repented—maybe isn't even alive anymore? Jesus modeled the answer on the cross: forgiveness handed to the Father, not the offender. #Bible #TheGospels
"If they don't hear Moses and the Prophets, they won't be convinced even if someone rises from the dead." Miracles don't produce faith. Jesus later raised a man named Lazarus—and they plotted to kill them both. #Bible #TheGospels
Rabbis in Jesus's day debated what "indecency" meant in the divorce law. One school said adultery. The other said burning dinner or talking too loudly counted. Jesus steps in to clarify what God actually said. #Bible #TheGospels
A manager about to be fired slashes his master's invoices to buy himself favors on the way out. Every person in the parable is crooked—and Jesus still pulls one lesson out of it for us. #Bible #TheGospels
The #Gospels Don’t Look Like #AncientHistory — Here’s Why
Dr. Richard Miller examines how ancient historians distinguished ordinary #history, fictionalized accounts, and #myth.
#theGospels #Herodotus #Josephus #Thucydides #historiography #Christianity #mythology
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