Did the sky really go dark as biblical inerrantists insist?

Just another fairytale.The reason it isn;t reported in other cultures is because it didn't happen. It is impossible to have a 3 hour solar eclipse.Brian.

Wouldnt really matter how you read it, a three hour solar eclipse is impossible.Brian.

It was recorded in the other synoptic Gospels, but since these guys all copied from each other this isn’t surprising.Matthew 27:45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.Mark 15:33 At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.Luke 23:44 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour Brian.Edited by Brian, : fixed quote box

Thallus recorded a three hour eclipse?How do you know the 'darkeness' recorded by both these people was the same event?Brian.

Hi, Yes, I made a formating error, I fixed it now, thanks for pointing it out. Not at all, it is perfectly feasible that no one had the original content, and since we do not have any original Gospel we do not know how often the stories have changed. Here's how it could have went. Mark wrote his Gospel first, Matthew copied it and added to it, Mark read matthew and altered his own Gospel, so the Gospels we have today could be copied off each other. You also have to consider the fact that Matthew's Gospel (in fact all of the Gosepls) is an anonymous work, so we don;t know if it was written by the apostle or not. Again, an anonymous work. What a text claims for itself isn't always the truth, a little bit of spice helps sales. As has been pointed out, this is a strange reading of the text.Brian.

Hi,Could you perhaps help me out here and tell me where Thallus wrote: "On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake." Hope this isn't too inconvenient.Brian.

Which chapter and verse.ThanksBrian.