Reasonable_Jeff Wrote:You have fishermen, tent makers, shepherds, tax collectors, men that lived apart from society in caves and deserts, etc. So if this rag-tag group of outcasts writes something, why do people give it so much weight/value?
Out of the people you mentioned, only tax collectors would have been literate. The rest couldn't have written anything that would have contributed to the NT.
The rest of your post looks really juicy and I will be biting in when I find the time next. Right now I'm off somewhere though!
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
