It's easy to ignore the advertisements. The video was obviously why I posted the link, and it is relevant to the thread because of the timing of events in relation to the interests of the state of Israel. France as accused Durov of being complicit in illegal activity, apparently because he has...
It must be wonderful for you to be omniscient like that.
“It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening” ~ Donald Trump commenting about the attempt on his life.
Interpretations that are inconsistent, absurd, or repugnant are not the preferred interpretation.
The point is that Jesus ensorsed the will of his Father, so the original theological problem of a just and compassionate deity intending that his so be tortured to death is still pertinent.
If...
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].
Matthew 26:39
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man [that is] my fellow, saith the YHWH of...
That a just and compassionate deity would intend for his son to be tortured to death.
By describing a second man associated with the crucifixion.
Isaiah 53 and Psalm 35 describe a righteous servant, and there are several matches between Jesus and the man described in Psalm 35. Isaiah 53...
There information in the prophetic texts which resolves the central theological problem of the gospels. Isaiah 53, Psalm 35, and Zechariah 11-13 have relevant material.
Straw man. The Pharisees were part of the council that conspired to kill Yeshua. The point here is that the writer of John was aligned with the Pharisees, which would explain the outlier text from the gospel of John which supports the idea of the crucifixion being a sacrifice.
And YHWH said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, [which] shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the...
Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
Matthew 12:14
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
John 11:47
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought...
John's account of the destruction of the temple doesn't include the false witnesses.
John 2
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Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
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Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I...
The story is an outlier. The gospel of John always favours the Pharisees. Given the insider knowledge present in that gospel, the writer of John probably regarded the Pharisees as a trusted source of facts.
Because it supported the idea of the resurrection. The story originated with false witnesses but was treated as a true account in the gospel of John.
According to the story it would be rebuilt in three days, like the tree days and nights of the sign of Jonah.