The Last words of Jesus (Part 3)

• John (20:1-2) describes things differently. According to him, only Mary Magdalene

went to the grave early on the first day of the week and found the stone already

removed. In a panic, she ran to Simon Peter and the other apostles, telling them that

“they” had taken Jesus away to an unknown place.

One really wonders why the countless collaborators of the Bible had not taken

some care to synchronize this central event of resurrection, and check their references.

The “original texts of God’s word” did not contain a unified story about this major event,

and the simple Bible reader has the right to ask: What did really happen?

The apostles’ reaction to the phenomenal events is also most remarkable. They

did not believe a word of the story told by the women, who were the two Marys and

Joanna: “And their words seemed to them idle tales, and they believed them not.” (Luke

24:11). John (20:9) even affirms: “For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must

rise from the dead.” This is quite incomprehensible. Throughout their four Gospels, the

evangelists reported Jesus’ statement that he would die and rise again, yet at the end

they knew nothing about it?

Jesus’ Ascent:

The account of Jesus’ ascent into heaven is also contradictory:

• According to Matthew (28:16-17), Jesus had summoned the disciples to a mountain

near Galilee for an appearance. When they saw him, they worshipped him, “but

some doubted.” Matthew has nothing further to say about the ascent into heaven.

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• Mark (16:19) has one sentence to cover this important event: “So then after the Lord

had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of

God.” It is as simple as that.

• Luke (24:50-51) makes Jesus himself lead the disciples “out as far as Bethany.”

While he was blessing them, “he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.”

• John (21) has nothing to say about the ascension into heaven!

The most important event in Jesus’ life, as recorded by “God’s word,” was

undoubtedly the resurrection and the ascent into heaven. The evangelists reported very

many unimportant details that one cannot understand why they did not describe the

central event on which the Christian doctrine is based in a colorful and genuinely

inspired language. If Jesus had ascended into heaven in full view of everyone, or at least

in the circle of his disciples, the news would have spread through the streets of

Jerusalem like a forest fire on the very first day. The people had taken a great interest in

the trial and the crucifixion, but not a single Roman or Jewish historian noted down a

single word about these Earth shaking events. The evangelists show only the most basic

knowledge of them, and they could not have been eyewitnesses, because of their

contradictory reports about these major events.

Did Paul's traveling companions see and hear correctly?

• Acts 9:7, “And the men which journeyed with him [Paul] stood speechless, hearing a

voice, but seeing no man.”

• Acts 22:9, “ And they that were with me [Paul] saw indeed the light and were afraid;

but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.”

The author of the Gospel of Luke contradicts himself! This first verse is Luke relating

the story of Paul's encounter with the spirit of Jesus that caused his conversion. The

second is Paul relating this story to some men that had been beating him. The first says

the men heard a voice but saw no man, while the second says that they saw a light but

did not hear a voice.

Theological Contradiction – Paul versus Jesus

• Mark 3:29, “He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness.”

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• Acts 13:39, “And by him that believe are justified from all things.”

This first verse is Jesus speaking to his disciples. He is basically saying that the one

thing that cannot be forgiven is blaspheming against the Holy Ghost, not the Father or

the Son. He continues by saying that they run the risk of eternal damnation.

The second verse is from Acts and is written by the same author who wrote the

Gospel of Luke. It is Paul addressing the congregation at Antioch. Paul is saying that

through belief in Jesus the Christ, all things are forgivable. No exception is made. Was

Paul not aware of Jesus' teachings? This is a blatant contradiction to Jesus’ teaching.

This is just one situation when Paul is taking charge of the theology of Christianity.