Myths about Reza Aslan’s ‘5 Myths about Jesus’

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October 14, 2013 • 05:08

Myths about Reza Aslan’s ‘5 Myths about Jesus’

Reza Aslan‘s 5 Myths about Jesus is so much myth-making.

Last Sunday (October 5, 2013), the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette prominently featured an article reprinted from the Washington Post by Reza Aslan titled “5 Myths about Jesus.”

The article was filled with what the Bible calls “foolishness” masquerading as scholarship.

Aslan’s work has been questioned by secular sources such as The Nation (“not meeting historical standards“); PJ Media (“falsehoods“); and NewsBusters (“Reza Aslan falsely asserts…“). Any basic research would have turned up many questions about Reza Aslan, his claims and his credentials .

Aslan’s claims are easily rebutted by the Bible.

1 Jesus was not born in Bethlehem.

“Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,”
—Matthew 2:1

[Also Luke 2:1-5, John 7:42, MIcah 5:2]

2 Jesus was not an only child.

This fact is correct–which demonstrates that when Aslan chooses, he can do satisfactory work.

[Matthew 13:55, Mark 6:3, Luke 8:20 and others.]

3. Jesus did not have 12 disciples.

“And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.”
—Matthew 10:1

[Also Matthew 11:1 & 20:17, Mark 3:4 and 6.7, Luke 6:13 and others.]

4. Jesus had no trial before Pontius Pilate.

“Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.”
—John 18:38

[Also Matthew 27:2, 13, 17, 22, 24, 58, 65, 68; Luke 23:1, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 13, 20, 24, 52; as well as dozens of other Bible verses and such secular sources as the records of Jesus’ trial and Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who was no friend of Christianity.]

5. Jesus was not buried in a tomb.

“The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.”
—John 19:31

“Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.”
—John 19:41-42

The Post-Gazette made the decision to reprint Reza Aslan’s article, “5 Myths about Jesus” even though any due diligence would have turned up questions, not only about the article itself, but about Aslan’s credentials as well.

However, the fact that the Post-Gazette chose to print such a piece should be a comfort to Christians, whose Bible foretold such events.

“…there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.”
—Jude 1:18

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,”
—2 Peter 3:3

The Bible, which Dr. Aslan holds in such low regard, also foretold pieces such as his “5 Myths about Jesus.”

“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
—1 Corinthians 2:14

by Jeremiah J. Jameson

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