But Why Doesn’t Paul Say More About the Historical Jesus?

December 23, 2021 00:06:16
But Why Doesn’t Paul Say More About the Historical Jesus?
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But Why Doesn’t Paul Say More About the Historical Jesus?

Dec 23 2021 | 00:06:16

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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

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