Religion & Ethics: Content from Across the ABC     Date/Time 29
Dec 2014 2:47:34pm  “May I suggest you are overstating the
differences and contradicting yourself in the process?”  Let 0
mean no answer, and the other numbers mean how many DIFFERENT
answers are given in the five accounts.  Who went to the tomb?
(0+4); What did they see? (0+2); Were any guards there? (0+2);
What did they then see and do? ((0+4); How did they leave?
(0+4); To whom did Jesus first appear? (4); Where and how?
(0+4); With what result? (00+3); To whom did Jesus second
appear? (5); Where and how? (00+3); With what result? (0+4);
Third (00+3), fourth (000+2) and fifth (0000+1) appear? Did
Jesus ascend to heaven? (000+2); From Galilee or from Bethany?
(000+2)  “Accounts given by eyewitnesses are bound to differ
from each other.”   “Can you suggest a contradiction that is
irreconcilable?”  All of them. The very assumption that they can
be reconciled means inventing a sixth account that contradicts
the other five. John says Mary Magdalene