Zombie apocalypse

"At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people. (Matthew 27:51-53).

Any particular reason the other Gospel writers (or indeed any other writer from that time) didn't make mention of it?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
"At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people. (Matthew 27:51-53).

Any particular reason the other Gospel writers (or indeed any other writer from that time) didn't make mention of it?

@moonbus said
Because it didn't happen. That story was invented later, for dramatic effect.

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
"At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people. (Matthew 27:51-53).

Any particular reason the other Gospel writers (or indeed any other writer from that time) didn't make mention of it?

@mchill said
Any particular reason the other Gospel writers (or indeed any other writer from that time) didn't make mention of it?

No, there isn't. As I've explained to you folks many times, the gospel writers wrote not only the lessons Jesus taught them, but lessons that came to them from God through visions and dreams. You're not going to find a complete set of logical, and verifiable facts in many of the scriptural books. There are some things you have to take on faith.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
So when the gospel writer speaks of the bodies of many holy people raised to life and going into the holy city, appearing to many people, we are not to necessarily take that literally? Such writers had divine authority to make stuff up and present it as factual to fill the masses with awe and wonder? - Indeed, Matthew could have regaled how Jesus wrestled an alligator ...[text shortened]... f it had a grain of truth in it. - The vision/dream defence disintegrates the entirety of scripture.

@mchill said
The vision/dream defence disintegrates the entirety of scripture.

Scripture lays out the case for accepting God and his Son Jesus Christ. If you see the concept of God speaking to mortals through visions and dreams, as opposed to a set of apostles as "disintegrating" in some way, I'm sorry, but it doesn't make what I said here any less true.

@fmf said
If you see the concept of God speaking to mortals through visions and dreams, as opposed to a set of apostles as "disintegrating" in some way, I'm sorry, but it doesn't make what I said here any less true.

"God speaking to mortals through visions and dreams" makes it sound like it is written by humans without divine inspiration.

The story goes: God sends himself dow ...[text shortened]... new religion go for "God speaking to mortals through visions and dreams" as well. It seems mundane.

@mchill said
The vision/dream defence disintegrates the entirety of scripture.

Scripture lays out the case for accepting God and his Son Jesus Christ. If you see the concept of God speaking to mortals through visions and dreams, as opposed to a set of apostles as "disintegrating" in some way, I'm sorry, but it doesn't make what I said here any less true.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
This is akin to God speaking to Joseph Smith from inside a hat.