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    The Resurrection Crucified
    The Resurrection Crucified
    The Resurrection Crucified
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    The Resurrection Crucified

    By James Wood

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    Many believe that Jesus was crucified and resurrected. Is it possible that the gospels are full of contradictions in the crucifixion and resurrection accounts? If so, why would God expect someone with a rational mind to accept them? This book is an examination of the gospel accounts. What will you do when the truth about the stories of the crucifixion and resurrection is laid bare before you?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Wood
    Release dateApr 7, 2012
    ISBN9781476093352
    The Resurrection Crucified
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    James Wood

    James Wood is a staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University. He is the author of How Fiction Works, as well as two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and a novel, The Book Against God.

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      The Resurrection Crucified - James Wood

      The Resurrection Crucified

      A Parallel Examination of the Crucifixion and Resurrection Accounts

      By James Wood Jr.

      New Dominion Publishing

      Midland, Virginia

      The Resurrection Crucified

      First Edition

      Copyright 2012 James Wood Jr.

      Published by New Dominion Publishing at Smashwords

      Available as an audiobook at Leavingjesus.net

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Note: This book is also found as a chapter in my first book, Leaving Jesus. It is also available at Smashwords.com

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - The Importance of the Resurrection to Christians

      Chapter 2 - The Foretelling of the Crucifixion and Resurrection

      Chapter 3 - Crucifixion and Resurrection: Allusions and Confusions

      Chapter 4 - A Resurrection Mishmash

      Chapter 5 - The Trial before Caiaphas

      Chapter 6 - The Trial before Pilate

      Chapter 7 - Conclusions about the Trials

      Chapter 8 - The Crucifixion

      Chapter 9 - Conclusions about the Crucifixion

      Chapter 10 - The Resurrection

      Chapter 11 - Analysis of the Resurrection

      Chapter 12 - Conclusions

      About the Author

      Chapter 1

      The Importance of the Resurrection to Christians

      Before I actually get into this book, I want to convey a very important thought. Christians believe that the New Testament is the word of God. It is the only source of the details and description of events we are studying in this chapter. Although Christians believe the New Testament is true when viewed as a single document they also hold that each book stands by itself as truth. What if one gospel presentation portrays one event in opposition to another? I am not speaking of minor complementary detail differences but major themes, such as on which day the crucifixion occurred. This one major principle difference will be discussed shortly.

      How did we arrive at the contents of the New Testament? Specifically, who decided which of the many gospels in circulation would be included in the New Testament? It is commonly known that the Tanach or Hebrew Bible was canonized by the Jewish People but they had nothing to do with the canonization of the New Testament. Men that Christians refer to as the Church Fathers used reasons like there being only four winds or four directions for having only four gospels. Also such archaic reasoning as this: there were only four elements so there would be no need for more than four gospels. The real reason was because the four gospels chosen were already the most popular in circulation. If you analyze the gospels in a parallel fashion, one can only come to the conclusion that none of these Church Fathers had actually studied them for logical contradictions especially in the subject matter we now address.

      God indicates more than once, that the gentile nations will come to the Jews to learn the truth, not the other way around. I always found it strange that the Jewish people were not involved in the formation of the New Testament. If God indicates that his chosen people would be the guardians of the truth, why have they no interest in the story of the Christian Jesus? Instead, men, that were at best antisemitic and at worst outright hateful enemies of the Jews and their Hebrew Scriptures, tried to replace or suppress the Hebrew Scriptures that the Jews had given their lives at times to protect, preserve and pass down to their posterity. The need to critically examine the subject matter found in the New Testament is important. The apostles thought what we are looking at now, the resurrection of Jesus, is the most important subject... in time and space!

      Paul not only thought that the resurrection was important but to him it was the zenith of the Christian religion. Paul put this forward to illustrate his thought.

      And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. (1 Corinthians 15:17)

      I remember once, while I sat in my father's living room on a particular Easter morning, our family was reading through the accounts of the crucifixion and resurrection in the different gospels. We were trying to reconcile the different accounts when I realized either there must have been a problem with the New Testament or a problem with me. I decided there must have been a fault in my ability to think clearly because surely the New Testament was true and perfect. I justified this by reasoning that because this is God's Word, there could be no mistakes in it so the error had to be in my thinking.

      The major theme of the New Testament is forgiveness of sins through the death of the Messiah. Although, it never says anywhere in the Hebrew Scriptures that any messiah is required to die for a guarantee for forgiveness, Paul indicates that the resurrection is necessary for forgiveness. Although Jesus mentioned it, he never said that his resurrection was an integral part of the guarantee.

      Here is one question that we must consider, Did anyone receive forgiveness for sins before Jesus was supposedly crucified and raised from the dead? The answer is, Yes.

      This is how Christians present the scenario. Starting with Adam, men performed sacrifices for their sins. All these sacrifices were performed in anticipation of the Messiah coming and sacrificing himself once and for all. This foreshadowing of Messiah's arrival, crucifixion and resurrection is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Christians use verses, that contain what I would consider to be, at best, veiled references to predict this future savior that will come and accomplish these things. This is probably the most common passage that Christians use to show this future event.

      And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on

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