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I do because it was badly deficient and you should be big enough to recognize and admit it instead of being snotty about it. Honestly, I just get a little tired of being asked to produce more evidence, because that takes time and work, and at the end of the day all the satisfaction I can get from i...

I do find it coherent and plausible to consider the author to be a "bungler" (my word) who made an "subconscious" (your word) mistake, but you haven't committed to this idea. Maybe that's because other people jumped on the same idea, but it makes just as much sense under the so-...

I meant to send this earlier but see that I didn't click on 'submit': The visit of other women to the tomb flies in the face of the narrative of GJohn. There's also nothing in there about Mary running to tell the other women. Your view has big, gaping oddness in terms of what the text says. Agree As...

It is obvious to me that there is something odd about Mary using the word 'we' where there is nothing in the text to suggest that anyone other than her was aware of the empty tomb It includes the other women, which is something we agree on. We both think there is no explicit statement in the text t...

I do because it was badly deficient and you should be big enough to recognize and admit it instead of being snotty about it. Honestly, I just get a little tired of being asked to produce more evidence, because that takes time and work, and at the end of the day all the satisfaction I can get from i...

I must admit I don't understand what point you are making that you think I don't get. Nothing you can say removes the fact that the author didn't state his reason for having Mary say 'we'. You and I can make various assumptions about that reason, but that isn't my point. My point is that it is an o...

It was to outhouse, although his post seems to have disappeared. I used 'quick reply' but didn't realize his quote would not appear in my reply. Edited now. You aren't quite answering my question. Let's say they believed it was true - why does that have to serve a theological purpose in this case, a...

I don't see the point you are making here. Of course 'we' would include other people, and of course the most logical inference is that it includes the other women. What exactly is your point here? The Gospel of John has a narrative where this statement by Mary doesn't imply that the other women wer...

... You aren't quite answering my question. Let's say they believed it was true - why does that have to serve a theological purpose in this case, and not simply what it looks like on the surface - that they believed something happened in the course of human events that really had no particular theo...

Very valid idea. I find your choice to be badly deficient however. Of course you do. I do because it was badly deficient and you should be big enough to recognize and admit it instead of being snotty about it. Let us know when you've done the work to validate your weird beliefs about what fiction c...