The Good News

   The discussion on history really spoke to me the most today. I have always wondered about the gospels and the way they're written. They're all telling the same story but just in different ways. And it use to mess with me because of how different they are. Like at the end of the gospels when they talk about the resurrection of Jesus, they are all quite different. 
  In Matthew there is an earthquake because an angel comes down, rolls away the stone, and sits on it. He freaks out the guards so they pass out and then tells the two Marys the news. In Mark the two Marys walk up to the tomb and already find it open. The angel is already inside of it sitting on the right side and when it sees the women it tells them the news. In Luke the women went to the tomb to already find it open and when they looked inside it was empty. Then two angels appear them and frightened them causing them to get on their faces followed by the angels telling them the news. And in John, Mary went to the tomb, found that the stone had been rolled away so she ran away to find Simon Peter and another disciple. So all three of them go back to the tomb. Simon Peter and the other disciple look in to find nothing but the linens that Jesus was covered in. But then Mary looks in a sees two angles sitting at the place where Jesus' body had been laying. She turned around to find Jesus standing there and he tells her the good news. 
   Understand why it messed with me so much? But now I understand why they are so different. They could've cared less about the chronological order of events of history. They just cared about making sure we receive the good news! Today really answered a lot of questions for me and I even feel a little more confident about the gospels.