
Did Paul Accept the Teachings of Jesus?
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
How Mortis Spread Christianity Quickly Through the Roman Empire
If Mark was written around the year 70 and Matthew and Luke are written in the years 80 to 85, it is not really too hard to imagine it circulating. The richer Christians may well have taken a sacred book with them. I don't think that they were using their Gospels as missionary tools or the letters of Paul for missionary tools. These books were written for Christian for Christian communities. They were read in Christian communities. And I don’t think they were handed out in order to get people to believe. What spread Christianity was one person who believed in Jesus, convincing another person that they too should believe in Jesus and telling them stories about Jesus.
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