Why would the Gospel writers have women being the first to see the empty tomb?

[raoskaos]

The more important questions. How many women came at the tomb?? What women came??? Was it daylight or dark??? What was the womens reaction to the resurrection??

And many more...

[ScottyVOR]

@raoskaos At least five women visited the tomb, four of whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Salome and Joanna. Some possible harmonizations of the visit to the tomb have all the women arriving together; other harmonizations have multiple groups of women going to the tomb at different times.

The time was probably very early morning, in the twilight between full day and night.

A basic attempt at harmonization would tell you this dude.

[raoskaos]

@ScottyVOR

"At least five women visited the tomb." - How do you know that??? I'm curious...

You can't harmonize contradictory scenarious, which these are.

The fact is you have 4 resurrection stories.

[ScottyVOR]

@raoskaos Contradictory or complimentary? You're taking on an enormous burden of proof to show that none, absolutely none of the various harmonization scenarios can possibly be correct.

As long as a harmonization is even possible, an outright contradiction doesn't exist. I'd link you to various articles written on this, but the comments don't allow them... ;)

[raoskaos]

@ScottyVOR

It's not possible. There can't be daylight and dark at the same time. There can't be one human and a bunch of them at the same time.

And that's why the gospels are not reliable.

[ScottyVOR]

@raoskaos Just out of interest, at what precise point does night become day? It's perfectly possible to have both daylight and dark...in the pre-dawn twilight. It happens every day.

As for the people...I see no contradiction. The gospel writers aren't writing exhaustive histories, merely the highlights. For example, John mentions only Mary Magdeline because he knows the other gospels already record the other women (John wrote last)...and so he just adds extra detail to the account.

[raoskaos]

@ScottyVOR

And who was at the tomb?