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
Gold Q&A - April 2022 Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Read by Ken Teutsch. Link to written blog: https://ehrmanblog.org/introducing-the-old-testament-apocrypha/
In trying to chart the early rise of Christianity, it's impossible to figure out what set of beliefs should count as "Christian." Read by...