>Although I've done this many times before, I wanted to send an
>absolute zinger, something that there is no chance that he could
>effectively refute. Any ideas?
My favourite du jour is the Infancy narratives. Compare the following sequences:
Matthew: Jesus born in Bethlehem (B) (2:1) Family flees to Egypt (2:13) Return, warned in a dream not to go to Judea (2.22) Settle in Nazareth (N) (2.23)
Luke: Family goes from their home in N to B; Jesus born (2:4) Jesus brought up to the temple after the prescribed days of purification (2:21) Family returns promptly to "their own city" of N (2:39)
These two stories are laden with contradictions and internal problems, but to me the killer is figuring out how the flight to Egypt would fit in with Luke's story.
Has anyone every heard an apologist successfully "explain" this?
-Brian Griffin