(November 12, 2013 at 12:45 pm)max-greece Wrote:
Quote:Anyway, according to Mark he takes the body and places it in a tomb with the 2 Marys. He then rolls a stone across the entrance and disappears.
When the 2 Marys come back the next morning (?) the stone has been rolled back, the body is gone and a young man sitting by the side of the tomb tells them that Jesus has risen. Again this is the only mention of the Young man.
They did not come back the next morning that was the Sabbath. They came back on the morning of the first day of the week.
Quote:So:
Who was the young man?
What was he doing sitting besides a tomb in the morning?
How do we know that the young man and Joseph were not in league to steal the body?
How do we know it was even Joseph's tomb as he claimed?
An angel, he rolled away the stone, the angel knew Jesus was going to raise from the dead, no need to steal the body. Just like a lot of ancient history we assume it to be true, why, because there was no need to lie.
Quote:As Joseph rolled the stone into place we can safely assume he could roll it away again (particularly with the help of the young man).
It was easier to roll the stone in front of the tomb but it probably took more than one person. However it would have taken several men to roll it away as there was a large dip the stone was rolled into. The dip was there so people would not be able to roll away the stone and rob the grave.
Quote:It all seems a bit odd to me, but obviously once we have established the first report of the resurrection comes from this strange young man the rest follows as the story gets embellished.
You see it as embellished, I see more detailed stories being told, we see this today in news report, right.
Quote:Unless I have gotten something horribly wrong here I ....
Horribly is an understatement
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
