
Was the Apostle Paul the Real Founder of Christianity? With Dr James Tabor
Blogging Theology
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In the ancient world, you would make up a nice speech for what he would have said at that battle. First Thessalonians is the earliest Christian Jesus movement document on the planet. If Paul has already lived and died in his letters, as well as his secondary letters are circulating, then these gospels are written heavily influenced by Paul. When you go to the Gospel of Mark, which I think is our earliest gospel, and you're going to put a link in your description to my Mark Course. You've got to remember that whoever wrote this early account, he's got Paul really heavily in his head. And so that's just a method. It means that when you open Matthew
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