"How do you explain the empty tomb?"

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And they didn't tell anyone because they were afraid. The writer of St Mark was hoping that readers would say to themselves, "Aha! I see it now. The reason why I've never heard of the empty tomb is because unreliable women were the only ones who saw the tomb and further more, they didn't tell anyone as St Mark wrote it."

'The women told no one about it' said 2.2 billion Christians.

Does anyone see the problem here?

I know what you are driving at but one silly thing to do when you are trying to think through religious beliefs is to think rationally. Check your brain at the bags counter before entering.

You see, superstitious people believe that the Holy Spirit inspired the writing of the Holy Gospels and the other books, the number of which is dependent on which church you belong to - 66 for Protestants, more for RCs and even more for Orthodox. Although the women told nobody, the Holy Spirit knew and got the chappies to write whatever they wrote. Naturally, the problem pops up when the writers contradict one another like mad. But faith covers a multitude of sins.