Once again I would like to say sorry for my absence on this blog. The truth is that it was because of my finals. But I have good news, those days are gone now. Well at least until my next final anyway.

*Disclaimer: I am in fact a Christian, and I believe that a good Christian should know how to defend them self. This post will talk about the controversial believe of the Christian religion, if you don’t like how that sounds, move along to another post. May i suggest this one?

Anyways, a while ago I found this interesting but controversial website about the Christian religion; in detail, the reality of Jesus’ existence. I decided to see if it was just blasphemy or if it actually had meaning. Well, it turns out that it had some interesting points, but like the bible, there is no absolute proof that Jesus did/didn’t exist. This is one of the example that they have given which is based on historical facts. (I added my comment after the “<<” )

Here are rules of the Sanhedrin that were in place at the time according to the Jewish Mishnah:

 

1. No criminal session was allowed at night. << Jesus was taken down before the sun had set therefore it is not yet night.
2. No Sanhedrin trial could be heard at any place other than the Temple precincts. << It was not a Sanhedrin trial because there wasn’t 70-72 judicial members present to begin with at the trial.
3. No capital crime could be tried in a one-day sitting. << It was not so much a trial rather, a demand by the Jews.
4. No criminal trial could be held on the eve of a Sabbath or festival. << It was not so much a criminal trial because the Jews had a tradition of releasing one prisoners around this time, and Pilate decided to free one and take one. In this case Jesus was taken and Barabbas was freed.
5. No one could be found guilty on his own confession. << Same reason as #4 and because he was convicted by the people not by himself.
6. No blasphemy charge could be sustained unless the accused pronounced the name of God in front of witnesses. << The witnesses were the people, which most probably had heard one of his sermon or they wouldn’t had been there.
7. The Sanhedrin were allowed to execute people on their own and did not need the Romans to do so for them. << Because it was a capital crime and they were under the Romans’ rule at that period of time.

Obviously some of the fact from both side of the argument can be wrong, so if I was wrong, you can make a comment and criticize me if you want. But as you can see, most of these “facts” aren’t concrete and are possibly flawed. I know that this isn’t all the proof that they have given, but if i tried to argue every proof they had, I would be writting this all night and it would be too long for anyone to want to read anyway.

The reason that I am witting this now is because I found another site/video like this just a couple days ago. This time they attacked the bible itself. Because I was to lazy this time to seek the truth because of my final, I decided to just ask the closest “theologists” that I can reach. So this time I decided to ask my father about the truth in this video. Although he is only a self proclaimed theologists, he certainly have knack in defending his believes. Although he was a bit radical when he did saw this video saying that it was BS.

The scary thing was that he was able to proof almost the whole video wrong with only 1 verse from the bible. According to this video, the bible told us to kill everyone that worked on the sabbath, commit adultery, defy their parents, or many other things that would convict almost everyone in America. The problem is, that there is a verse in the bible that specifically tell who these laws affect, and It was certainly not for the American. Apparently, it was just for those people that was with Moses when he got the 10 commandments, which is the Jews/Hebrews, not the American or in this case the rest of the world. In Exodus 24:8(KJV) the bible states that

..And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

So what is the point of all this? Well, we know that there is many Christian out there in the world who sadly never read the bible. Yet, there are many non-Christian out there who do read the bible. See the irony? I guess the Christian teaching doesn’t teach us how to be Christian. It’s just like school, they teach you many things, but they never teach you how to apply it in the real world. What’s wrong with this education system? But that is totally off topic. So I guess this is where I will end this post. Tell me, what do you think?

P.S, Sorry for my absence again.

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