re: The 501(c)(3) Trojan Horse in the American Church (another LBJ gift)

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Hey foo, educate me on Judas, will ya?

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Are you ever going to respond to me from almost a month ago? You specifically called me out for not responding to you, and when I did, I didn’t see a rebuttal. Are you going to keep opening yourself up for being proven wrong over and over again? I would think you would stop using those sites that don’t understand what a contradiction is by now.

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Did he…

- throw down the money in the temple and then hang himself as in Matthew 27:3

Or

- keep the money then buy a field then fall head-first in the field with his guts flying out his abdomen as in Acts 1:18?

I’m expecting you to tell me he threw down some money, kept the rest, bought a field, hanged himself, with his head hitting the ground first and then his guys flying out. Just wanted your opinion.

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Judas provided the means for the Chief Priests to buy the field, so Judas gets credit for the acquisition. He also hanged himself, and possibly later, his bloated body fell when the rope broke and splattered when it hit the ground.

You need to realize that when there are plausible explanations, a contradiction need not exist. You need there to be contradictions because you hate God and want His word to be false.

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Also what do you think of 1 Corinthians 15:5. He appeared to “the twelve”. Obviously at that point Judas was dead, right? Maybe the name of their clique was “the twelve” even though they were missing a member?

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”The twelve” was a moniker for Christ’s Apostles. It’s why Judas was replaced by Matthias instead of simply letting the number shrink to 11 after Judas’ death. The point of Paul’s statement wasn’t to imply that Judas was included in the appearance of Christ, but that Christ appeared to many witnesses, including the Apostles.

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Though I know you aren’t a Catholic, why do you think their Bible says Jesus appeared to “the eleven”. I almost fell out of my chair when I read that in my daughter’s Bible.

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I checked about two dozen translations and didn’t find a reference to the eleven. Not even footnotes about a textual variation. Care to provide a link or reference to what you found?