Go to bed Godsman, or you will be here forever.
I hear ya Bob, and I promise this is my last post for the night.
How can anyone KNOW what Paul or any of the others taught the new congregations. They may have had stacks of scrolls in their libraries. Paul and others may have written hundreds of letters that have not been preserved. It is OBVIOUS to me that had Paul thought it necessary to rehash all the other stuff, he would have done so. He constantly refers to 'stick to what you have been taught' and 'add nothing to what you have been taught'.
They may have had stacks of scrolls, but not about Jesus. The Jesus story was too new to have been recorded in scrolls. Nope. The new Christians from Paul's ministry were almost completely ignorant, as was Paul himself, apparently.
Paul writing hundreds of letters is just ridiculous. If he did, we would have those letters, or at least we would have references to them by later Christian authors. But we don't. Paul didn't write any other letters, and many of the so-called letters of Paul (like Colossians, Ephesians, and the pastoral epistles were not written by Paul at all.
