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Republican says Charlie Kirk would have been Jesus' "13th disciple" (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

(Unless of course you read the other chapter of the fairy tale that says he didn’t kill himself but instead fell into a hole and exploded or something)

He hung himself in a field he bought, his body baked in the sun, the rope broke and he was found exploded on the ground.

[–] AugustWest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well no, that’s what I was saying.

In Matthew 27:3–7 he is filled with remorse, tries to give the silver back, the priests don’t want it, he throws it on the ground and goes and hangs himself, and the priests buy a potters field with it.

But in Acts 1:18 it merely says he buys used the money to buys a field, falls in it, and “burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.”

It’s a famous discrepancy among biblical scholars, and the general belief is that it is a discrepancy. Some try to justify it figuratively, but the better explanation is it’s all nonsense.