Johnny Skeptic

Consider the following Scriptures:

Matthew 27:57-61

"When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre."

Luke 24:6-8

"He is not here, but He has risen Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. And they remembered His words."

John 11:43-45

"And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him."

Fundamentalist Christians would have people believe that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary forgot that they saw a large stone rolled in front of the tomb, and that an entire group of women, including Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, forgot that Jesus said that he was going to rise from the dead in spite of the big commotion that he had caused when he raised Lazarus from the dead. That is ridiculous. An entire group of people doesn't just forget that a man who raised someone from the dead said that he was going to be raised from the dead too. If Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, surely most or all of his followers concluded that it was God's power that raised Lazarus from the dead, not his power. Jesus had been careful not to claim that he had all of God's powers at that time. For instance, he said that only God knew when he would return to earth.

How many tombs had Mary Magdanlene and the other Mary previously visited that did not have large stones in front of the entrances, perhaps none?