Empty Tomb Puzzle

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but how do you get past the simple solution that the priest had to put away Jesus once and for all by opening the tomb.

You get past it by remembering (duh) that the whole thing is not a historical treatise but a synthesised, copied, edited story with absolutely no external validation from legitimate, contemporary sources?

Besides that it seems that GC doesn't even know his idol (the bible). It was not a priest that rolled the stone away from the tomb. Bible says it was Joseph of Arimithea (or Joseph apo Mathias which is the exact Greek used in the passage from Josephus I cited above).

hock: I do not know the scriptures. I did not say the priest rolled away the stone in front of the tomb, I asked the question, why did the priest not take the opportunity to open the tomb and show everyone the body, this would have put an end to the whole deal. No one has yet given an answer to this except to deny that Christ never existed, and if one believes this then why argue the empty tomb.

Now let's get to your knowledge of the stone sealed in front of the tomb, where in scripture does it say that Joseph of Arimathea rolled away the stone for the resurrection?

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Jesus appeared to 500 people during the 40 days after the resurrection to the ascending.

Acts 1:2-3,9 explicitly explains how his ascension was after 40 days. What would John say about this!

John 20:26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.

8 days.

Mark and Luke?

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Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
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After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.
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Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
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So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
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And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. ...
And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus....
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And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together....
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And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
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And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

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The same day as the resurrection.

To believe Acts or not to believe. That is the question.

Just because John and Luke do not describe the 40 days Christ was with them after the resurrection, does not prove He ascended the same day.

There are others of history that have had their lives revealed by more than one source, those sources were used to get a better picture, because one source alone did not reveal all the facts of ones life.