This being the case, if the ascension of Jesus really happened, it would be impossible for the eyewitness to such a stupendous event to have so thoroughly screwed up its location. If this ascension really happened, and these people actually witnessed it, their memories of such a memorable occasion would not have scrambled the location so. No one would think for a minute that the people who witnessed the fiery death of TWA flight #800 off the coast near New York City in the summer of 1996 would ever, even decades later, mistakenly remember it as having occurred some thousands of miles away, say, near Los Angeles, or Mexico City. Nor would New York pedestrians who stood and watched as airplanes smacked into the World Trade Center in 2001, twenty years later misplace the event as having happened in Kansas. To put the Gospel problem into modern terms so that we can better get a handle on it, it would be as if some claimed this singular event of Jesus’ ascension occurred in the deserts of Mexico while others in the cool forests of Canada. As I said, a discrepancy of this magnitude is an impossibility for REAL eyewitnesses, leaving us the only reasonable alternative, that we are dealing with false eyewitnesses: people who claimed to be eyewitnesses to an event but actually weren’t; or people who claimed to witness an event that never occurred at all. To top it off, these people not only lied about being eyewitnesses to an ascension that never happened, they then went and wrote down their lies on the documents that later evolved into The New Testament.