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
Fact or Fiction? Or both? Or neither? Read by Ken Teutsch.
Part one of two posts about the Phibionites, a group of heretical early Christians with (allegedly) extreme sexual liturgies. Read by Brandon M. Bender
As we consider what a scribe "intended" by a certain alteration, Bart proposes a conceptual reorganization of our category of intentional change. Read by...