To this point I have enumerated everything that Paul explicitly says about what Jesus said, did, and experienced during his earthly life. The driving question is the one that I turn to now and in the next post. Why didn’t Paul tell us *more*? I’ve long been fascinated by this question, and even though I’ve thought about it for well over thirty years, I’ve never decided on what I really think. There are just too many counter-arguments for every perspective that I’ve heard or thought of! In these two posts I want to lay out three of the main options. If you think of others that need to be aired, feel free to make a comment. I have taken the following from my textbook The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Read by Petra Ortiz
Bart continues the story of how Morton Smith, having discovered the Secret Gospel of Mark, went about trying to find out if it was...
Bart looks at the Dream of Perpetua as an early example of ideas that later developed into the concept of purgatory. Read by John...
Bart addresses claims about Revelation's status as underground literature, its depiction of the fate of sinners, and its concluding "curse." Read by John Paul...