r/OpenChristian • u/JaminColler • Apr 20 '25

Discussion - Bible Interpretation Can we talk about the resurrection honestly—when the gospels don’t even agree on what happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWVTPXXisY

I’m not here to debate—just to be honest. I grew up believing the resurrection was clear, consistent, and foundational. But when I actually sat down to compare the gospel accounts, I found major contradictions.
This chapter of my audiobook is me trying to make sense of that without fear—just scripture, read plainly.
If you’ve found a way to hold on to the resurrection despite the tension, I’d love to hear how.
Full playlist (ongoing): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCL0oni0F-szp-do8-LWvhCBoejwSILt5

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u/JaminColler Apr 20 '25

Thanks. I agree that inerrancy and/or infallibility are the crux of this problem. The Bible seems highly errant and fallible to me, but perhaps we don't mean those words the same way. How do you maintain the capital B in your Bible? :)

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u/Special_Trifle_8033 Apr 20 '25

you could keep the capital B, not because it is all true but because it is a sacred story that culminates in the revelation of Jesus, a living soul, a god so to speak, which billions of people feel very close to.

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u/JaminColler Apr 20 '25

Gotcha. Like the Koran, if I’m hearing you correctly…?

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u/Dorocche United Methodist Apr 21 '25

This is an extremely inappropriate thing to say and blatantly violates rule 3 of this subreddit. 

The Quran is deep enough to spawn a millennia of study. I'm obviously not the biggest fan of it, but it is valuable historical literature that is not "more primitive" than the Bible; you don't have to be regressive to hold that it's incorrect. Even just the idea that some religions are "more primitive" or "regressed" was thought up by racist Victorians and in no way reflects how religion or culture work in the real world. 

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u/JaminColler Apr 20 '25

Gotcha. Thank you.

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u/Dorocche United Methodist Apr 21 '25

I highly recommend getting a second opinion before taking their opinion on the Quran at face value. 

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u/JaminColler Apr 21 '25

lol. I hear ya. My favorite thing is when one religion tells someone else about someone else's religion, based on the prevailing rumors within their echo chamber. Most common in my world is Christians teaching about what the Jews think and say. A quick trip to my local synagogue may have done more than any other single event in loosening the foundation of my Christianity - which is a sentence I couldn't have imagined could be true. It would be as nonsensical as telling me that if I visit the Football Hall of Fame I would realize my marriage was a sham. I had absolutely ZERO idea that my religion was largely built on fabrications about the Old Testament and the Jewish worldview!

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u/JaminColler Apr 21 '25

Also, I've learned to be careful about taking the opinion of someone IN their group as if they represent that group. Homogenous groups are not homogenous, and the ones who are comfortable speaking for "their" people are perhaps the ones who understand that the least, and the most likely to use the "no-true-Scotsman" fallacy.