The tension: Luke 23:45-46 puts the tearing of the temple veil before Jesus dies: the sun darkens, the veil rips, and then Jesus commends his spirit and gives up the ghost.
The tension: John 19:29-30 has Jesus receive the vinegar from the sponge and then declare "It is finished." Mark 15:23 has Jesus refuse the wine mingled with myrrh.
The tension: John 20:17 has Jesus tell Mary Magdalene, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father." Matthew 28:9 has the women hold Jesus by the feet and worship…
The tension: Matthew 28:1-9 has the women — including Mary Magdalene — leave the empty tomb with "fear and great joy," meet Jesus on the way, grab his feet, and worship.
The tension: Matthew 27:5 has Judas throw the thirty pieces of silver down in the temple and then hang himself; the priests use the money to buy the Potter's Field.
The tension: Matthew 28:19 has the risen Jesus command baptism "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" — a Trinitarian formula.
The tension: Isaiah 40:22 describes God sitting upon the "circle of the earth," which apologists routinely cite as evidence the Bible knew the planet was spherical.
The tension: Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:5 reports that the risen Jesus appeared "to Cephas, then to the twelve." But by the time of the resurrection, Judas Iscariot had alrea…
The tension: Matthew 12:40 has Jesus predicting he will be "three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" — a precise duration of 72 hours, paralleling Jonah in th…
The tension: Matthew 7:8 and Proverbs 8:17 both promise that those who seek will find — the seeker-finds-God formula is presented as a universal principle.
The tension: Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and parallel Lukan material tells his followers to take no thought for tomorrow, to give to everyone who asks, to lend without…
