Why are the stories of the crucifixion and resurrection inconsistent?
It is common for eyewitness accounts in courts of law to be inconsistent. It is even common for people to disagree about what is happening on a film that they watch over and over. The stories are inconsistent because the oral traditions from which they came were inconsistent. The oral traditions were inconsistent because different witnesses observed and remembered different things. What is more interesting is that the four Gospels represent five different oral traditions, which are remarkably consistent about some things, despite their diversity. If you are a Protestant or a member of an Eastern Orthodox church, explain why you are still using the Catholic Bible, which was formalized by a vote among (supposedly divinely inspired) cardinals and bishops in the fourth century CE, when you disagree with the idea that the Pope, who is higher in the Catholic hierarchy, is divinely inspired; if a Catholic, explain why your church accepts the canonical Bible while rejecting the Apocrypha. (Do
