(December 11, 2017 at 2:25 am)Minimalist Wrote:(December 10, 2017 at 9:31 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: Well, yes and no. I believe the letters from Paul to be Inspired, and great spiritual meaning can be gained from them, but the red letters are directly from Jesus, so they are of a higher priority.
And yet, over a century after this "paul" guy supposedly wrote them we have an extensive work of a xtian writer, Justin, written to Emperor Antoninus Pius c 160 AD and guess what? He doesn't seem to know jack-shit about this "paul" guy. Never mentions him. Although he does know about the alleged arch-heretic Marcion. Oddly, xtian writers like Tertullian tell us that it was Marcion who was the first to produce a canon of alleged scripture which included 10 of these pauline epistles and the so-called "Gospel of the Lord" which turns out to be a large chuck of "Luke."
Odd, eh?
Justin was clearly more focused on the Gospel than the Pauline epistles. We can't say for sure whether he ignored them or didn't know them.
As for Marcion, that doesn't surprise me. He developed conflicting views from the Pauline perspective but it doesn't surprise me that he could have canonized the gospels early on.
