sister crystal,
if you get a conflicting account, the first thing you'd have to look at is which account holds up to scrutiny,
we are told he was crucified on Friday (good friday)
taken down from the cross on friday evening before sunset (start of sabbath - as it was considered an abomination to have crucified people hanging on the sabbath)
and on sunday morning (first day of the week) - mary magdalene comes to "anoint him with spices" and finds nobody there.
firstly - it is a fact that people do not go to anoint bodies after three days, (anoint means rub) because you can't rub spices and perfumes into a body which has been decomposing for three days, neither was it a jewish practice to remove tombstones and rub decomposing bodies with perfumes and spices after three days.
Now upon the
first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain
others with them.
2And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
3And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
4And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
5And as they were afraid, and bowed down
their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
6He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
7Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified,
and the third day rise again.
8And they remembered his words,
9And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
10It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary
the mother of James, and other
women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
11And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
12Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
Luke 24
But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this,
to day is the third day since these things were done.
22Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
23And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
Luke 24:21-23
what is this "three day" statement?
Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
39But he answered and said unto them,
An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign;
and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly;
so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 12:38-40
now we see that first he mentioned that it would be an evil
and adulterous generation - and he was not living among such at the time of the first coming.
and the emphasis was on three days and three nights - repeated twice.
in the semitic regions - the day begins after sunset of that night rather than at 12am - and continues through to sunset.
let's count:
saturday night
sataurday day
sunday night
and on sunday morning (easter sunday) - nobody is there.
we have a total of 1 day and 2 nights,
even if he had just said "3 days", it wouldn't add up, since there was nobody there on sunday morning.
it would be just friday and saturday,
but even more dam*ing is that three days AND three nights was EMPHASIZED.
we can clearly see that this is not a fulfilment of that prophecy and that it didn't happen in that age.
if you look at the signs of the second coming as mentioned in the bible and the hadith.
you find it is a time of sexual immorality and decadence.
it says in revelation:
Behold, he cometh with clouds;
and every eye shall see him,
and they also which pierced him:
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Revelation 1:7
we know for a fact that those people didn't have skype or satellite tv broadcasting, and that every eye could not see him.
and that all kindreds of the earth didn't wail as people in england had not even heard of him.
we do know from the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) that the time where this type of thing occurs is near the end:
Mahdi means: The One Who Is Rightly Guided.
Certain it is that IN THE TIME OF HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)IF A BELIEVER IS IN THE EAST HE WILL SEE HIS BROTHER IN THE WEST.AND IF HE IS IN THE WEST, HE WILL SEE HIS BROTHER IN THE EAST. (Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 52, p. 391)
[SUP]Hazrat Mahdi (as) will (spiritually) conquer both east and west[/SUP][SUP]and cause Islam (the moral values of Islam) to rule the world
...[/SUP][SUP]ALLAH WILL BESTOW SUCH POWERS ON PEOPLE [/SUP][SUP]THAT[/SUP][SUP]EVERYONE WILL HEAR HIS (THE MAHDI’S (AS)) WORDS,[/SUP][SUP]WHEREVER THEY MAY BE[/SUP][SUP]and Imam (as) will give life to Islam...[/SUP]
so it can be confidently stated that either that event didn't happen at the time, or whoever added those verses made big mistakes.
