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onager

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4. You found the source!
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 10:47 AM
Dec 2015

Why didn't that come up for me? WHY IS GOOGLE PERSECUTING ME!? GET MY LAWYER! W-A-A-H...

OK, I'm better now. Finished the pot of coffee and had my own experience with Living Waters. Though I doubt I can turn it into a Marketing Opportunity.

Anyway, I'm afraid I have to launch into one of my long and pointless tirades. Because I've been seeing this claim all my life and it really annoys me:

Three days after His death...Jesus rose from the dead...

Only true if you're using some weird version of Creationist Math. But let's take the Xian account at face value and see what we get:

Friday: Jesus arrested, arraigned before Pilate. Sent to Herod for interrogation, then BACK to Pilate again for trial. All that back-and-forth must have taken nearly all day. So...

Late Friday afternoon/early evening: Jesus crucified. Sky goes black over the entire world, massive earthquake hits Jerusalem. Though nobody else in the entire world finds those things important enough to mention. Jesus probably entombed sometime around dusk or after dark.

Saturday: all quiet on the Tomb front. Ancestors of Living Waters vendors may have been selling T-shirts around Mt. Calvary.

Sunday around dawn: Jesus' tomb found empty. When and by whom depends on which one of the totally different yet absolutely accurate and consistent Bible accounts you choose to believe.

So even according to the Bible, Jesus' dirt nap didn't last 3 days. Only 1 full day and change. From sometime Friday evening to dawn on Sunday.

These people can't even count from 1 to 3, and I'm supposed to believe they've figured out the secrets of the Universe?

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