Not only that, as Michael Shermer has so aptly noted, "God sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself!" This is not a 'mystery' ... it is an absurdity!
If suicide's a crime & God kills himself . . .? Oh, that's right - He was resurrected after 3 days. Wasn't actually a death, so much as a wasted weekend
Don't you get tired of the 'after 3 days' crap? I mean, since when is a period of less than 40 hours—from 3:00 p.m. on a Friday to sometime before sunrise, NLT 7:00 a.m. on a Sunday—equivalent to three (3) days?
@pnfullifidian Have you read Age of Reason? Paine suggests it was a big cluster fuck in which nobody knows when it was or who was there. Was there an earth quake or no? Did other dead arise or no? Different authors employed different embellishments to pitch their goat herder story.
@chalupacabre It's been a while since I read it, but you're right, there are discrepancies, interpelotations and let's be honest, no eyewitness testimony.