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 considers how likely it was for Jesus to have attended fancy dinners in posh houses when he spent most of his ministry in...
Dr. Ehrman looks at the little-known phenomenon of Christian manuscripts being used as magical objects. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Bart shows how similar the teachings of Jesus and the Stoics were, even if the motivations were different. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.