F4F | Scott McKenna Lies In Order To Deny Christ's Bodily Resurrection

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Yeah, you've been lied to. So today we're gonna be heading over to Mayfield Salisbury Church of Scotland.

The Reverend Dr. Scott McKenna is going to be delivering a message from the

Gospel of John chapter 20. Gospel of John chapter 20. And in delivering this message from the

Gospel of John chapter 20, he's gonna straight -up deny the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and he is going to be making the claim that the disciples all kind of saw

Jesus in their inner spirit thingy, kind of like they were having a group hallucination.

But, you know, I don't know too much about hallucinations, but I can tell you this, that if you were to have a room full of people hallucinating, they'd all be hallucinating different things.

I've never heard of a mass group hallucination where everybody hallucinated the exact same thing.

That's kind of bizarre. So let's go ahead and get our screen open there. There's the

Reverend Dr. Scott McKenna, and let's listen to a portion of his message titled,

Seeing the Risen Christ. But he denies that Jesus actually rose. Here we go. In the night, under the cover of darkness, on the first day of the week, and behind locked doors,

Jesus came and stood among his disciples. He said,

Peace be with you. He showed them his torn hands and pierced side.

On that first evening of the resurrection, Thomas was not with the disciples. He was not in the room when

Jesus appeared. Later, when the disciples tell him of their experience,

Thomas said, Unless I see, I will not believe. One week later, again the disciples gathered under the cover of darkness in a house behind locked doors.

This time, Thomas is with them. Jesus appeared in their midst with the same greeting,

Peace be with you. Jesus spoke directly to Thomas, Put your finger here and see my hands.

Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Thomas said,

My Lord and my God. Now you'll note, I mean, had he just ended there, this would have been an okay sermon.

A little brief, but what he has said so far is accurate and true to the text.

When first we think of the disciple Thomas, we think of the doubter.

But the Gospels suggest that there's more to this man than this. A few days before the triumphal entry,

Jesus and his disciples had narrowly escaped being stoned by a crowd in Jerusalem.

Then came the appeal from Mary and Martha to Jesus to go to Bethany because their brother

Lazarus was dying. The village of Bethany was not far from the walls of the holy city.

When the appeal came, the disciples protested that it was too dangerous.

They would risk being captured and that would mean certain death. Now, by the way, the function of this portion of his sermon, he's going to, you know, it sounds like he's gonna just merely defend

Thomas's honor and basically say it's probably not fair for us to just paint him off as a doubter.

And so this will make him appear as if he is one of these fellows that is all about rightly understanding the biblical text.

And so, you know, by correcting an error, a misperception regarding Thomas, he is creating the impression that he is now going to, you know, that everything flowing from that point on is gonna be really, really carefully addressing what's really there in the biblical text.

But this is actually a deception technique on his part. By first trying to make it look like he's gonna clean things up and be careful in his exegesis, that's the move now that he's going to use, it's a misdirection, to then very quickly smuggle in a word.

See, I'm snapping because I learned it from the false prophets, that he's gonna try to smuggle in a word into this text that isn't there, but I'll show it to you when we get there.

Realizing that Jesus was determined to go to Lazarus, Thomas alone said, let us go also that we may die with him.

On the night before he died, seated with his disciples in the upper room,

Jesus said, in my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so,

I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. You know the place where I am going.

Many of the disciples may have wondered what Jesus meant, but it was Thomas who asked him,

Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way? Unjustly discarded as a doubter,

Thomas is a man of courage and inquiry. It seems to me that he cared deeply about Jesus.

It is possible that the sole reason that Thomas was not with the disciples on that first night was because, in grief, he could not face being with them.

Overwhelmed by the brutality of the crucifixion, the traumatic loss of such a friend, teacher, and confidant,

Thomas simply could not face being with anyone. Courage.

Spiritual searching. Okay, so yes, he's done a really good job of coming to the rescue of Thomas's long -lost honor.

He's not a doubter. He was really courageous and compassionate, had a deep place in his heart for Jesus.

This is not a bad picture, and I think some of the evidence that he's brought to bear here, hmm, it's worth considering.

But the sermon's gonna take a very severe turn in like literally just a few seconds, and this is where it totally jumps the tracks.

Jesus appeared to his disciples. The verb used for appear is quite specific.

It means an apparition, an inner vision. It is something that is experienced and seen within the consciousness, with the inner eye, in the mind, in the heart.

The appearance of Jesus that night in that room in Jerusalem could not have been recorded on an iPhone.

And there it is. Now we're gonna do a little fact checking, and we're gonna do a little fact checking with the very text that he's supposedly preaching from.

And we're gonna go into the Gospel of John, and we are now in verse 19, and here's what it says.

Now pay attention. See if you can find the word appeared. See if it appears.

If appeared, appears in this text. On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the door is being locked where the disciples were for fear of the

Jews. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, peace be with you.

Mm -hmm. You'll note it doesn't say he appeared. It says that he stood.

And it's histemi is the the Greek verb there, and histemi, when we look at it, let me go ahead and make this bigger, to cause to be in a place or position, to set place, bring aloud, to come, to propose, to set up, enforce, to validate, to specify contractually.

One of its words is to stand. But there is no word here for appear.

So on that evening of the first day of the week, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, peace be with you.

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the

Lord. Jesus said to them again, peace be with you, as the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them.

If you withhold forgiveness for many, it is withheld. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the twin, was not with them when

Jesus came. Mm -hmm. Erkamai, come, not appear.

So the other disciples told him, we have seen the Lord. But he said to them, unless I see his hands, in his hands the marks of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into a side,

I will never believe. Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and although Thomas was with them, although the doors were locked,

Jesus came and stood, histemi, among them, and said, peace be with you.

Then he said to Thomas, put your finger here and see my hands. Put out your hand and place it in my side.

Do not disbelieve, but believe. Thomas answered him, my

Lord and my God. And Jesus said to him, you have believed because you have seen me. Blessed are those who have not seen me and yet have believed.

So you're gonna note, the word appear doesn't appear in John chapter 20 at all.

In fact, the whole point of the text is that Jesus came and stood.

He just stood right there. He was there. He was. And so his whole point that if you had an iPhone, you couldn't have recorded the resurrection appearance because it took place in the heart, because the

Greek verb is very specific. Well, that it's very specific

Greek verb doesn't appear in this text, which means

Scott McKenna is totally lying. And I don't know what word he thinks it should be appearing here, but the word appear doesn't appear.

And so now we've got a big problem, and that is that the whole point that he's trying to make doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

Let me back this up just a smidge and listen again to his big claim, you know, regarding the the resurrection appearance from there, the

Gospel of John chapter 20. With whom we can readily identify. That evening, under the cover of darkness,

Jesus appeared to his disciples. Yeah, John chapter 20 says he stood.

The verb used for appear is quite specific.

Yeah, it's so specific it doesn't show up in John chapter 20. It means an apparition, an inner vision.

It is something that is experienced and seen. What is the word in which verse does it appear in?

In the consciousness, with the inner eye, in the mind, in the heart.

The appearance of Jesus that night in that room in Jerusalem could not have been recorded on an iPhone.

There was nothing physical to see, and the verb chosen by the writer tells us that.

The verb chosen by the writer that doesn't appear in this text makes it clear that Jesus didn't appear physically, and yet Jesus said after he came and stood, it doesn't say he appeared, he stood, that he said, touch me, put your hand in my side, do not be disbelieving, and believe.

Luke's account makes it clear that Jesus told the disciples, you know, who freaked out because they thought they'd seen a ghost.

In fact, let's take a look at the the Lucan account, because the Lucan account, Jesus goes through great pains to make it clear that he's not a ghost.

And so Luke chapter 24, and it's after the road to Emmaus account, starting at verse 36, as they were talking about these things,

Jesus himself, and there it is again, stood among them. It doesn't say appear, it says stood among them.

And he said to them, peace to you. But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit.

They were all frightened, by the way. And he said to them, why are you troubled, and why did doubts arise in your heart?

See my hands and my feet, it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.

And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet, and while they were still, they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, have you anything here to eat?

They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it before them. Yeah, so Scott McKenna making a lot to do about a word that doesn't actually appear.

And the word is appear, so isn't that weird? So we've got a missing appearance of the word appear.

So maybe he saw it in his mind's eye. Maybe he wasn't able to record the appearance of the word appear on his iPhone, because the only place this really showed up was inside of his heart and mind and head.

You know, something like that. So if you'd like to leave a comment below, please feel free to do so.

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