Sentences with phrase «considered unreliable witnesses»

Women were considered unreliable witnesses at the time (a fact that may explain why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an «idle tale,» the type of silly gossip typical of uneducated women.

Despite the fact that, by virtue of being a woman she would have been considered an unreliable witness whose testimony wouldn't hold up in court, Mary Magdalene is charged with telling the world that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

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rejected the applicant's testimony as «self - serving and generally not forthright,» and considered him a «an unreliable and unbelievable witness»; [DC at 31]