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EPISODE · Nov 25, 2024 · 23 MIN

Rigid critical scholars: Is there a contradiction about Jesus' words on the cross?

from The Lydia McGrew Podcast · host Lydia McGrew Podcast

Today I'm starting a series in which I especially emphasize the rigidity of critical Gospels' scholars who create strained contradictions and reject sensible harmonizations. This theme has been implicit in much of my work, but I'm trying to make it more explicit. The claim that conservatives interpreting the Gospels lack nuance and are rigid is so misguided that the truth is exactly the opposite. It is the critical scholars who create implausible contradiction claims who are interpreting rigidly without the nuance granted by a commonsense understanding of the way real life works. In this case, Jesus could *easily* have said all the words attributed to him on the cross in the various Gospels, with no contradiction. Merely recogizing that someone can say more than one thing at about the same time is sufficient to recognize this, especially combined with the fact that "I thirst" doesn't even appear to be the same saying as, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Here is the clip from a recent interview in which Dr. Licona insists that there are contradictions about Jesus' words on the cross if one takes them nall to be recognizably historical. https://youtu.be/dNUCCeTwCaI?si=g29IfHaSVfB488Dj&t=4104

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