I knew it.
I asked you to pick ONE and you give me a shopping list. How would you like a link back that answers hundreds?
I'm sorry, I missed the memo where you were designated the arbiter of this debate. And FWIW, that was a small sample of contradictions that I gave you.
But for the record, I'll pick this ONE:
Whom did the women see at the tomb?
Whom did the women see at the tomb?
Your questions assume time didn't pass while they were there and people / angels didn't come and go. Which is why your claim isn't worth the time it took to present it.
Greenleaf's "Harmony of the Resurrection" puts the events in chronological order, and that settles that.
Greenleaf?s Harmony of the Resurrection Accounts
By the way,
ALL FOUR GOSPELS CONFIRM THE RESURRECTION. Don't miss the forest for the trees, which is what you're doing.
In order to confirm the validity of the resurrection story, it is necessary, but not sufficient, that all the details be consistent. And considering that what happened on Easter morning is the single most important event in Christianity, and that many conservative Christians consider the Bible to be the inerrant word of God, I feel this is not too high of a standard to set. A single detail out-of-place threatens the whole story, and multiple out-of-place details completely destroy it. So no, I am not going to play the "let's just look at one detail" game, because we must consider how all the parts fit together, not just the individual parts, in order to see if the resurrection story survives this test. (That's a mouthful, yes, but if you live up to your screen name, this shouldn't be too hard to understand.
Let's just focus on Mary of Magdalene, for example.
A. In Matthew 28, at dawn she comes with "the other Mary" to the tomb. A violent earthquake occurred as a direct result of an angel's rolling the stone away (v. 5). This is the only gospel to even mention the earthquake; why? By no standard does it make any sense for the other writers to omit the earthquake, let alone a violent one. Then they see the angel who did this, sitting on the stone, who gives them the good news and tells them to return. On the way back, they ran into Jesus himself. The big reveal to the disciples came at Galilee.
B. In Mark 16, right after sunrise she comes with Mary the mother of James (Matthew's "other Mary"?) and Salome. Why is Salome not even mentioned by Matthew? In this version of the story, the stone is already rolled away. No earthquake in Mark. They see a man--
inside the tomb--who gives them the good news. Then they leave, confused and afraid. They do not run into Jesus.
C. Mark has a somewhat different story immediately after this that focuses on what happened after Mary of Magdalene and the other(s)(?) saw the empty tomb: She ran and told the disciples, but they did not believe him. Next, Jesus morphs into a different form (why??) and appears to two of them out in the country. They relate the news to the rest, who don't believe them. Finally, the big reveal comes while they are all eating. They are full of doubt, and Jesus rebukes them. Did this happen in Galilee? Perhaps, but that seems like a stretch.
D. In Luke 24, early that morning "the women" went to the tomb. Who are these women? Similarly to Mark's story, they experienced no earthquake, saw the stone rolled away, and walked right in. But they saw two men, not one, inside the tomb. They give the women the good news. We finally learn who these women are: Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Joanna, and some others. The crowd just keeps growing! They all tell the disciples the good news. The disciples doubt them, kinda sorta except for Peter.
Now in the next post, which I will need due to the length of my response, this is where things really get good...