(June 21, 2015 at 12:08 am)Spacetime Wrote: It's 1 Thessalonians.
After a few hours sleep, I think I will engage a few more of your points...not that I think they will actually help you at this point...but there are others lurking.
Last night, I acquiesced regarding 1 Thessalonians based upon a conservative view which is held by many. However, I'm also aware that a case may be made for a much earlier dating of the Gospels. I've posted this before elsewhere in the forum, so I'll hide it here as a courtesy to others. Just click "Show Content" to see it.
Now, if the material present in that line of reasoning is even remotely correct with regard to the dating of the gospels, then there was a wealth of information about the miracles of Jesus in circulation long before the Epistle of James was written.
Finally, it might be noted that the Epistles of the NT were written to existing churches concerning pastoral issues and finer points of the developing theology of Christian faith. These were not the sorts of documents in which a RE-TELLING of Jesus' miracles was necessary.