Steven Carr

http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Faraday.htm 'Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection', by NT Wright, Bishop of Durham

'The first modification is that there is virtually no spectrum of belief within early Christianity. '

Amazing. Wright knows for a fact that early converts to Jesus-worship in Corinth scoffed at the idea of a corpse rising, and yet he can still stand up in public and deliver such a line.

'The second strange feature of the stories is better known: the presence of the women as the principal witnesses. Whether we like it or not, women were not regarded as credible witneses within the ancient world.'

John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

The Gospellers thought that people would find women credible witnesses.

And Wright also knows that in the earliest Gospel, Mark, the women don't tell anybody.

And , of course, in Mark, the first witness to the resurrection is not a woman at all. It is a young man.

How can Wright read the Gospel of Mark where the first person at the tomb is a young man, and expect to be taken seriously when Wright tells people that the first person at the tomb was not a man?

It was a man. Just read the damned story!