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11621489 No.11621489 [Reply] [Original]

So Acts 25 is confusing the hell out of me.

>25:1 - Three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went UP from Caesarea to Jerusalem
>25:5 - “So,” he said, “let those of you who have the authority come DOWN with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them accuse him.”
>25:6 - After he had stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went DOWN to Caesarea; the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.
>25:7 - When he arrived, the Jews who had gone DOWN from Jerusalem surrounded him, bringing many serious charges against him, which they could not prove.

All these seem to imply Jerusalem being North of Caesarea, which it is not.

Any ideas as to why the author chose to describe the journey in this manner if it isn't geographical? Perhaps something in the greek?

>> No.11621509
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>>11621489
I was thinking that perhaps "going up" is used when leaving home and "going down" refers to returning home in greek, but that's just a shot in the dark. Here's the map btw

>> No.11621510

Wait'll OP finds out about upper and lower Egypt

>> No.11621513
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>>11621489
>expecting the bible to be consistent
>implying the bible isn't a myriad of contradictions

>> No.11621523

>>11621513
This

>> No.11621546

>>11621523
>>11621513
shutup stupid

>>11621489
Elevation. Caesarea is on the coast. Jerusalem is 2400 ft above sea level. This is not at all like Plato's "DOWN i went to Piraeus" either.

>> No.11621560

>>11621513
Yes, but if you live in Israel you should know the geography there like the back of your hand.

But I think I figured it out: Jerusalem is on a Mountain range whereas Caesarea is on the coast, a height difference of 741 m. So you go up to Jerusalem and down to Caesarea as strange as it may sound.

>> No.11621566

>>11621546
Cheers dude!

>> No.11621609

>>11621489
It didn't refer to compass point, going up or down was just a figure of speech meaning you went somewhere.

>> No.11621652

>>11621513
>t. actually hasnt read the bible

>> No.11621786

>>11621652
Read all of the new testament and most of the old when I was 15. It was a laborious task, not so much due to its length, verbosity, or even its overwhelmingly tedious prose. No. The real labour came from handling the cognitive dissonance when I was asked to accept as fact that a donkey spoke, that a multitude of dead men rose, that if you build high enough you can reach Heaven, that the entirety of the world was engulfed in water, and innumerable other absurd claims.
I remember quite distinctly my naive teenage brain 'struggling with doubt' as I tried to harmonise the glaring contradictions in the biblical narratives that were supposedly the infallible, unassailable, inspired word of the omniscient God.
Yes, I remember my grandmother dying and leaving me a measly £150 -- all she had -- and instead of spending it like a normal teenager would, I blew it all on books related to Christian theology and Church History. If only I knew how worthless and delusional it all was, I might have spent it on something useful like weed or toilet paper.