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 eagerly planned to visit the oldest continuously-operating monastery, but ran into a hitch. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
I have started to give some background on the book of Revelation, to help set the stage for my new understanding of it as...
Bart offers a two-part course that suggests the virgin birth of Jesus was not the prevailing view among the earliest Christians. Read by John...