#144 Why is John’s Gospel so different? What did Paul know about Jesus?
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Paul of Nazareth - Is Paul the Authority on Christ?
In the 19th century some apologists did was actually to have the rooster crowing nine times which is what none of the accounts say. Paul knew that Jesus had been crucified as a messianic pretender and therefore demonstrated that he really was Israel's Messiah so Paul's focus on stuff that he knows about as your questioner says about Christ. We are not saved by believing in the verbal inspiration of scripture we're saved by the events to which scripture still solidly bears witness.
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