waxm

These four seperate stories of one event do not corroborate each other.
Instead they are four storys that do not support each other factually, even if one claims that a timeline can be the varience.

Anyone is welcome to read them if they wish:
Matthew 28:1-8
Two women, both named Mary
Great earthquake and they watched an angel roll back the stone
the keepers watched it also
the angel sat on the stone and told the women, one of them being Mary Magdalene, that christ has risen.
the women did not go in the tomb.

Mark 16:1-8
Two women, one being Mary Magdalene
No earthquake, no keepers
Stone is already rolled away and no angel sits upon it, they were amazed that it was rolled away
both went inside this time
one young man inside tells them that christ had risen.

Luke 24:1-10
More than two women, but two of them being Marys', one of which is Mary Magdalene.
Found the stone rolled away, again with no mention of an angel sitting on it, or keepers being like dead men.
went inside
found two men, not one young man this time, and they told them that christ has risen.

John 20:1-14
one woman, that being Mary Magdalene, approached the door and saw that it was rolled away and did not go in, but went to get Peter.
Again no earthquake, no angel outside, and no young man inside,
Peter looks around and sees that Jesus is gone, then leaves.
Mary leans over and looks in the cave, then sees two young men who tell her that Christ has risen, then Jesus appears to her there.

We know that these can not be the same two men as in Luke because these have white garments, as the others were dressed in shining garments.
Even if we could somehow rectify this in our own minds, that white could be shining, in one instance she was standing inside with other women and in the next she was outside, alone, leaning over.

Dishonest clergymen will claim that these four different stories about a singular event can somehow be drawn into one coherent tale, but they can not be!
In each version, Mary Magdalene is purported to be the subject who experienced particular events.
So one can not claim that the stories are a complilation of different views of one event.

Some very ignorant sources will claim that these stories describe four seperate trips, as if Mary would be shocked to see the stone rolled away three times in one mourning, after watching an angel do it herself earlier.
Or that one angel, one young man, two men in shining garments, then two men dressed in white, could all tell her that, "He has risen." Without having Mary eventually proclaim, "Yea, Yea, I've already been told man!"

There is absolutely no way to view these stories as an accurate portrayal of a single event, and no way to base a belief, much less a faith on them!
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aikido7

...maybe the resurrection has nothing to do with Jesus' body. Faith in Jesus obviously does not depend on a literalistic reading of the Bible.