GOSPEL
WARS: Galilee -vs- Jerusalem
(Where Was Jesus Supposed To Meet Up With
His Gang?)
Mark A. Smith 1995, 2002
When a
husband offers up to his angry wife contradictory stories of where he spent
last night, it’s a safe bet he’s lying. Likewise, when the Bible gets caught up
in a contradiction, it’s also a safe bet it’s lying. That’s the power of
contradictions- you know someone is lying. And once you discover the Bible is
lying, it’s much harder to trust or believe that it could have
come from a perfect author.
The contradiction under consideration here is the location of where the disciples were to meet up with Jesus after his supposed resurrection. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John have Jesus saying the disciples are to rendezvous with him in Galilee, northern Israel, about three days journey away. In contradiction to this, Luke’s two books- The Gospel of Luke and The Book of Acts, have Jesus planning to rendezvous in Jerusalem. The question is, where exactly was Jesus promising to meet up with his disciples:
Jerusalem
-or- Galilee?
Leave Jerusalem
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Don't Leave Jerusalem |
| Mt 26:32 But after I have been raised, I will go before you to GALILEE. | Acts 1:4 And gathering them together, he commanded them NOT to LEAVE JERUSALEM.4 |
| Mk 14:28 But after I have been raised, I will go before you to GALILEE. | Lk 24:47 (the gospel should be preached) beginning from JERUSALEM. |
| Mt 28:7 ...behold, he is going before you into GALILEE, there you will see him. | Lk 24:33-37 (Jesus appears to his gang, NOT in Galilee, but in JERUSALEM.) |
| Mk 16:7 ...he is going before you into GALILEE, there you will see him. | Acts 1:12 Then they returned to JERUSALEM from the mount called Olivet, which is near JERUSALEM. |
| Mt 28:10 ...tell my brethren to leave for GALILEE, there they shall see me. | Lk 24:49 ...but you are to stay in the CITY (Jerusalem) until you are clothed with power from on high.5,6 |
| Mt 28:16 But the eleven disciples proceeded to GALILEE, to the mountain Jesus had designated. | |
| Jn 16:32 An hour is coming...for you to be scattered, each to his own home3. |
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CONCLUSION:
In the forty days between the “resurrection” and alleged ascension of Jesus, the Apostles either never left Jerusalem (per Jesus' command) -OR- they did leave Jerusalem (for Galilee, per Jesus' command) In the real world, people cannot be in two places at the same time, and to claim otherwise is to be caught up in a contradiction. In the real world, in that forty day span, Peter either left Jerusalem1 or never left Jerusalem2, but there’s no way in hell he could have done both, Bible or no Bible. The Bible, like the cheating husband, has been caught in a contradiction, exposed as a liar, and therefore can't be trusted to tell the truth.
1)John
21:1-3 2)Acts 1:13 3)They are called "men of Galilee"
in Acts 1:11, and Peter's home was in Capernaum of Galilee, Mt 8:5&14, so it is obvious that Jesus
is saying they'll all go to GALILEE right after he
dies, after they've "all left him and fled," Mk 14:50. 4)This specific command of Jesus to NOT leave Jerusalem rules
out any solution to the contradiction that includes a “quick trip up to
Galilee”. 5)Once again, Jesus gives a very specific command for them to
NOT leave Jerusalem during the time period in question. As I said before, such
commands rule out any explanations that claim the disciples went to both Galilee
AND Jerusalem. Fact is, they were already IN Jerusalem, and Jesus had put
them under “house arrest”, commanding them to keep their butts there. No “side
trips” to Galilee, and thus no way out of the contradiction. 6)Upon
his "resurrection" Jesus commanded his Apostles
to remain in JERUSALEM (which rules out ANY side trips to Galilee)
until "you are clothed with power from on high" (Lk 24:49). This the
Apostles did, according to Luke, and passed the days in the temple, (Lk
24:52,53). Ten days past Jesus' "ascension" and fifty days past the
"resurrection", on the day of Pentecost, in the city of JERUSALEM, not having left the city, the Apostles are
now "empowered by power from on high" (Acts 2:1-21), as promised by
Jesus.
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