[Valpal1]

Never once did Our Lord tell these witnesses of His to write. He Himself wrote only once in His life, and that was on the sand. But He did tell them to preach in His name and to be witnesses to Him to the end of the earth, until the consummation of time.

Um, this claim is based entirely on the written narrative of the Bible. Kind of circular, really. We have no way of knowing if he ever wrote notes or messages to his mother or family or to the apostles. We can only know what was recorded, not what was not recorded.

[SoConPubbie]

Um, this claim is based entirely on the written narrative of the Bible. Kind of circular, really. We have no way of knowing if he ever wrote notes or messages to his mother or family or to the apostles. We can only know what was recorded, not what was not recorded.

Except that the narrative was passed from one generation of believers to the next. First from those who had witnessed the event, and then to those who chose to believe the Gospel and let God change their hearts and minds thereby proving the validity of the Gospel as written by the first witnesses and so on and so forth.

There is no circular logic when you take this into account.

[stfassisi]

You need to thank the Catholic Church for what was recorded and canonized -without the Church there would not be a Canonized Bible. What is recorded and canonized is there because it lines up with tradition of what was taught in Catholicism