(Discussing the contradictory accounts among the Gospels about the number of angels present at Jesus' tomb)
As for counting one angel or two angels as a contradiction. Angels are spirits and can appear and disappear instantly.
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Well then don't you think they would have mentioned that the angels were appearing and disappearing?
For that matter, this makes angels seem like some fundies' intelligence: they seem to get so near the point, and then miss it entirely.
Gee, by that logic we can just assume that the whole tomb encounter may have been an elaborate hallucination! God can do anything, right? Maybe the whole life and death of Jesus, and everyone that lived and died in his midst, were completely illusory, and the so-called "witnesses" who went on to recount the story to those who would become the authors of the New Testament had actually been hooked up to an elaborate Matrix-style virtual reality network the whole time!
Heck, maybe I'm not even typing this right now! With God, all things are possible!
Thank you, Mr. Fundie, for once again failing to answer the question.
Let me re-phrase it for you.
Given that you believe that the Gospels are the inerrant, infallible Word of God...
Why are there conflicting numbers of angels between accounts that were supposedly written by God? Did God remember it differently when he wrote each Gospel?
Yeah, but you'd say I should take the Bible literaly. How can I with even small contradictions?
You'd probbaly also say thigns like the Bible is the inherent word of God. How can that be when you admit there are inaccuracies?
Also, its a well known fact that angels avoid appearing in sets that can be described by integers. For example, you rarely see 2 angels, but you might see 2^-2 angels, get it? They tend to stick to reals, though. It was this fact that eventually drove George Cantor insane.
Oh, well that's convenient. Angels are spirits, of course that'll account for discrepancies.
Don't you fuckers see the kind of rationalization doublethink you're doing when anything that doesn't jive with your religion shows up?
"As for counting one angel or two angels as a contradiction. Angels are spirits and can appear and disappear instantly."
And? Unless they can also bilocate themselves you haven't actually cleared anything up.
Angels appearing and disappearing are cute.
Yet, I can totally imagine some sort of a Pythonesque discussion on this topic, involving detailed reconstruction of the tomb, swerving into heated debate on the specific tomb construction styles in the era, ending with "well, perhaps one of the angels was obscured by a rock..."
Confused?
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