(July 26, 2018 at 8:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There were heretics everywhere. The notion that there was any sort of "church" in the first-2d centuries which could exercise any kind of authority is patently absurd.
What there were were scattered groups with all sorts of fucked up beliefs.
Quote: It is interesting. But then how, under this insinuation, are the Pauline epistles unaware of gospels?
Justin knows nothing of any gospels, either. He mentions something called the Memoirs of the Apostles but none of it matches up with any of what passes for "gospels" now.
I'm reading through his First Apology right now and while he has yet to mention anything from Paul, he actually quotes liberally from Matthew in one section so I don't see how he couldn't have known of at least that gospel.
