(December 13, 2016 at 1:34 pm)Athena777 Wrote: @OP: In a culture in which relatively few could read, what purpose would Jesus' writing his message serve? To fail to reach the very people his ministry, as presented in the Gospels, was supposed to reach, i.e., the Galilean peasants?
It would serve as a historical record for future generations!
My rejoinder to your response (bolded by me) is in the very post you only partially quoted. What future generations?!?