MARY AND THE RESURRECTION
Reasons Mary Magdelene was a poor choice for being the first one to find the resurrected Christ: [1]She was a Woman–couldn’t give testimony in a court of law; not the best choice for credibility to this resurrection thing. [2]She was a Woman with a Past–Questionable mental history–7 Demons cast out of her by Christ sometime in the past couple of years. 100 years later Celsus, an anti-christian writer dismisses the resurrection, because its validity is based on what he called the hallucination of a hysterical woman. [3]She was a Wild-eyed loyalist/follower of Christ–How could she be expected to give an objective report? Who would believe it? You know when you really like someone, you can’t be trusted with the facts. In other words: No religious zealot would have ever written the story this way, if this wasn’t the way it happened. No Jew or Gentile reader in the world would have been pressed toward belief. [4]She was a Weeping Woman…
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