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 asks if it could have been the way that early Christians cared for their sick and dying that made the early church attractive...
Did Pilate "learn his lesson" about offending Jewish sensibilities? Read by Ken Teutsch.
Dr. Ehrman looks at the rewards and demands of teaching at a place like UNC-Chapel Hill.. Read by John Paul Middlesworth