(July 19, 2014 at 4:11 am)Aractus Wrote: Don't troll my thread with "Jesus never existed" nonsense, start your own thread. Paul wasn't the first to start writing, the earliest epistle in the NT is almost certainly James which is probably written before the Jerusalem Council (AD 50).
Hate to burst your little bubble here but "James" is highly suspect for many good reasons.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/james.html
Quote:5. As the history of the canon shows (see 27.2), it was only very slowly and against opposition that James became recognized as the owrk of the Lord's brother, therefore as apostolic and canonical. Thus there does not seem to have been any old tradition that it originated with the brother of the Lord.
This stuff is not factual because some church propagandist says so.