CASH REWARD1
Jim Lippard
The Internal Test looks at internal consistencies and inconsistencies within the [Christian bible―New Testament] manuscript.
The New Testament fails this test. There are innumerable
manuscript variants, plus logical errors and inconsistencies between different
accounts of the same events.
The Skeptical Review and Ralph Nielsen
each offer $1,000 (for a total of $2,000) to anyone who can produce a single
consistent narrative of the resurrection appearances of Jesus as described in
the four gospels, Acts and 1 Corinthians 15, without deleting any details or
adding any purely speculative material. This challenge has been publicized in The
Skeptical Review (one year free from
So far as I know, nobody has even attempted to take up the
challenge.
Footnote:
1. Jim
Lippard,