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 discusses how the roots of the modern hospital trace back to ancient Christian monasticism. Read by Brandon M. Bender
Dr. Ehrman shows how early Christians found evidence for the Trinity in the opening verses of the OT. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Prof. James Tabor argues that the imagery of Revelation is drawn from the sight of the volcanic destruction of Pompeii, an event that may...