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Carrying on the tradition of reasons the Gospels are true -- if you were going to make this up as an author in the first century, you'd never have women going to the tomb alone -- their testimony wouldn't have been considered nearly as valid as a man's at the time. The natural thing would've been for one of the disciples to go to the tomb, naturally expecting to do just what Jesus said he was going to do. But the Gospels have women going to the tomb... because that's how it happened.
In the same way, would you end your Gospel with the women fleeing in fear? Or would you have them leave in joy, rejoicing and proudly proclaiming that He is Risen, just as he said he would be? If you were going to tell the story, you wouldn't write it like this... unless this is how it happened.
The women went to the tomb, expecting to find death, and in that place, they found life more abundant than they could have imagined.
What Christ gives us is the ability to look at death and see life, for death has been defeated. We are draped in Christ's glory, set free from the punishment of sin, and claimed as Christ's own forever.
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