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VERSE BY VERSE: JOHN 14 (NO. 3) HOW JESUS BETRAYED HIS DISCIPLES John 14:2-5 "My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Anyone who reads and understands these verses, alongside the entirety of Jesus' teachings in the New Testament, cannot help but be astonished by the apparent trickery and treachery against his own disciples. In fact, earlier in John 8:58, Jesus already declared his "ancient existence" or deity. If this claim is true, why did he not prepare a place for his disciples beforehand? John 8:58 "Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” Secondly, if the resurrection story is true, why did Jesus not take the disciples "to be with him" as he promised during his ascension? This inconsistency suggests that the resurrection is false and did not happen. Finally, why did Thomas question Jesus' destination if he and the rest of the disciples had truly witnessed miracles such as walking on water, raising Lazarus, feeding thousands, or giving sight to the blind? The euphoria such events would generate would be undeniable if these stories were true and not fabricated. To add to these contradictions, John 20:1-2 and Matthew 28:2 state that the stone sealing Jesus' tomb was removed by angels. If Jesus had truly promised to rise three days later (I am the resurrection and the life, John 11:25?), why would he need angels to remove the stone when, according to John 20:26, he could pass through doors? These nonsensical claims highlight the absurdity and falsity of the Gospel narratives. When Simon Peter and another disciple entered the tomb (John 20:3-10), they saw nothing but the burial cloths used to wrap Jesus' head. Despite being resurrected, Jesus did not appear to them. Instead, he appeared to Mary Magdalene after Peter and the other disciple had left. Why did Jesus not appear to Peter then? Why play hide and seek? Why require angels to roll away the stone when he could supposedly pass through doors (John 20:19-20)? All of the above proves that the resurrection is a manufactured bedtime story. It is laughable that Peter was ignored while Jesus appeared to "flirt" with Mary Magdalene. Moreover, the need for angels to remove the stone when Jesus could walk through doors further undermines the credibility of the resurrection narrative. Of course, the worst lie and act of treachery against his disciples is when Jesus promised, "I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" (John 14:3). They all died waiting. If his resurrection story were true, why did he not take them with him during his ascension? This is what "synthetical reasoning" is all about-reasoning backward.VERSE BY VERSE: JOHN 14 (NO. 3) HOW JESUS BETRAYED HIS DISCIPLES John 14:2-5 "My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Anyone who reads and understands these verses, alongside the entirety of Jesus' teachings in the New Testament, cannot help but be astonished by the apparent trickery and treachery against his own disciples. In fact, earlier in John 8:58, Jesus already declared his "ancient existence" or deity. If this claim is true, why did he not prepare a place for his disciples beforehand? John 8:58 "Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” Secondly, if the resurrection story is true, why did Jesus not take the disciples "to be with him" as he promised during his ascension? This inconsistency suggests that the resurrection is false and did not happen. Finally, why did Thomas question Jesus' destination if he and the rest of the disciples had truly witnessed miracles such as walking on water, raising Lazarus, feeding thousands, or giving sight to the blind? The euphoria such events would generate would be undeniable if these stories were true and not fabricated. To add to these contradictions, John 20:1-2 and Matthew 28:2 state that the stone sealing Jesus' tomb was removed by angels. If Jesus had truly promised to rise three days later (I am the resurrection and the life, John 11:25?), why would he need angels to remove the stone when, according to John 20:26, he could pass through doors? These nonsensical claims highlight the absurdity and falsity of the Gospel narratives. When Simon Peter and another disciple entered the tomb (John 20:3-10), they saw nothing but the burial cloths used to wrap Jesus' head. Despite being resurrected, Jesus did not appear to them. Instead, he appeared to Mary Magdalene after Peter and the other disciple had left. Why did Jesus not appear to Peter then? Why play hide and seek? Why require angels to roll away the stone when he could supposedly pass through doors (John 20:19-20)? All of the above proves that the resurrection is a manufactured bedtime story. It is laughable that Peter was ignored while Jesus appeared to "flirt" with Mary Magdalene. Moreover, the need for angels to remove the stone when Jesus could walk through doors further undermines the credibility of the resurrection narrative. Of course, the worst lie and act of treachery against his disciples is when Jesus promised, "I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" (John 14:3). They all died waiting. If his resurrection story were true, why did he not take them with him during his ascension? This is what "synthetical reasoning" is all about-reasoning backward.

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Wisdom of Solomon 2 1 For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. 2 For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: 3 Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air, 4 And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof. 5 For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again. 6 Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. 7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us: 8 Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered: 9 Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this. 10 Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged. 11 Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth. 12 Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education. 13 He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord. 14 He was made to reprove our thoughts. 15 He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion. 16 We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father. 17 Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him. 18 For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies. 19 Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience. 20 Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected. 21 Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them. 22 As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls. 23 For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. 24 Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death