New Testament Writers claim Pontius Pilate affixed his seal to the tomb of Jesus to prevent any trickery by his disciples, but, this is trickery in itself, because without this seal – there is no proof that Jesus rose from the dead – or what have you!
Pilate was no stupid man – and he was a real person. Not so most of these phantoms Paul invents to lurk about and destroy the first church and – the truth.
“Wait a minute. If I put my seal on this tomb, and post my Roman soldiers as guards, then, if this Jesus dude gets out of that tomb via trickery – then I am left holding the bag! Indeed, it could be said I am a secret supporter of this rebel, and am guilty of sedition. For suggesting this fraudulent idea to me, I am going to have you crucified – scumbag! How dare you pose as his enemies, when in fact – you are fellow rebels!”
Let us begin the end of the world as we know it at the tomb of Jesus where I with glee destroy the core tenet of Christianity – the Resurrection!
Pilate agreed to put his seal on Jesus’ tomb in order to thwart any trickery by the disciples of Jesus in regards to the pending Resurrection. Pontius Pilate was an extremely intelligent man, he a master auger. Augers were consulted when temples and other important Roman building were built in order t make sure the auspices was correct. Therefor, Pilate would quickly surmise he is being used to prove the resurrection is real, and does not fall for the trap later authors of Christian text have set in order spread a lie.
A group of liberal Pharisee believed in the Resuscitation of the dead, where good men who die are allowed by the Jewish God to enter the body of a living person so they will live longer. The Sanhedrin ruled the resuscitation was a fairytale, thus, Paul the Pharisee was out of a job. It was then that Paultried to take his magic act on the road and sell it to Gentiles. When the revolution of the Nazarite swept the land, Paul became a Roman agent who volunteered to destroy the Nazarite Movement that was admitting Gentiles and challenging Paul’s teaching all over the known world. T
When Mary Magdalene visits the tomb of her “master” and she hears his voice. Turning she only beholds the gardener. I believe the embodiment of Jesus came into the body of the gardener, thus the statement;
“Do not touch me for I am not fully in my body!”
Jesus may have been conducting a resuscitation on the Mount of Olives, he helping a dead sant come into the body of a young boy who is wrapped in burial ribbons. When he is unwrapped, we hear the voice of the wizened old sage who gets to spread his wisdom around some more.
The real mission was to bring the Kingdom of God back to Judea, it retreating to heaven with the Roman occupation. I have restored this kingdom – to earth!
There is the possibiity Pilate applied his seal because he was curious to see if this Jewish folklore was – real! The king and queen of Judea may have subscribe to the resuscitation, and thus they more then almost believed Paul when he was brought before them to be judged.
And, that is that!
NEXT!
Jon the Nazarite
In the last post, we noted powerful evidence for the empty tomb: enemy attestation. The religious authorities of Jerusalem and the early Church both agree: On Easter Sunday, the body of Jesus is not in the tomb. The question is: Why? Christians, of course, affirm the reason is the bodily Resurrection of the Lord. The authorities concocted a different tale: they said the disciples stole the body. Did they? Not a chance. First, the tomb was guarded, most likely by Roman soldiers. Matthew’s Gospel mentions that the religious authorities bribed the guards to say that while they slept, the disciples pilfered Jesus from the tomb. That Roman soldiers would fall asleep on the job, and somehow not be woken by the commotion of men rolling away the massive stone at the mouth of the tomb, is laughable enough. But even if that were possible, who knows what’s happening while one is asleep, anyway? But there’s an even more convincing reason this argument doesn’t work. Almost anyone would grant that people are often willing to die for what they believe to be true. Suicide bombers come immediately to mind. But no one dies for something they know to be a lie. And the disciples would certainly know if Jesus had actually risen from the dead and appeared to them, or if they had, in fact, hidden his corpse in a trunk somewhere. But if they had really stolen the body, why would they go and get themselves killed by preaching that Jesus had been resurrected? I mean, it’s not as if they had anything to gain, humanly speaking, by their message. It’s not as if sprawling mansions along the Mediterranean coastline awaited. They could only look forward to beatings. imprisonments, and an almost certain death. The truth is that they proclaimed the Resurrection because they were convinced by the encounters they had with the risen Christ. They proclaimed it because it was true – See more at: http://www.thefaithexplained.com/tag/gospel-of-matthew/#sthash.G9mND0kx.dpuf


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