Something that hasn’t made sense to me is the tomb, and how the women (pick your number depending on the gospel) had planned to get into the tomb to see Jesus’ body. If the stone weighed between 2,000-4,000lbs (from what I’ve read), and it was sitting at the bottom of a downward slope, it doesn’t make sense that the women would think that they would be able to access Jesus, unless the Roman guards were going to open it for them.
Call me lazy but if I’m a Roman guard in that time, and some women came to me (who from my understanding weren’t exactly respected in that society) came and said “hey can you do this extremely hard manual labor for me/us?” I’d likely tell them to kick rocks.
Is there any reason for thinking the guards were already going to open it? For the women to show up, with no way of actually getting to the body that they are going to see just seems like a massive plot hole to me that just happened to magically work itself out. I’ve read the apologetic response being that the women weren’t in the right state of mind, but given that they wouldn’t have been able to buy spices/herbs whatever to anoint the body at the market on the Sabbath, and they supposedly went to the tomb before sunrise, they would have had to navigate in the dark at their homes to gather ingredients, which seems like a pretty purposeful and thoughtful process and not that of some person that’s completely beside themself.
Very little about the resurrection narratives makes any sense. There are many many reasons to seriously doubt them.
Aside from the issue of where they got the spices–though John says this had already been done–there is the issue of why were they anointing a body that was already interred in the first place? There is not point to adding spices to a body that is already in the ground.
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