Are you implying that the ONLY communication between Paul and Timothy on the matter was limited to the Letters that were included in the Bible?
"Were the Corinthians able to read and understand the letters written to them, Theophilus understand Luke?"
Were all of the Corinthians saved?
"Did Timothy understand the letters written to him by Paul?"No, My point is that Paul wrote letters that COULD be understood by readers. Scripture is not written in riddles that only a magesterium can decipher. He assumed Timothy could understand the message and Luke assumed that Theophilus could understand the book of Luke.Are you implying that the ONLY communication between Paul and Timothy on the matter was limited to the Letters that were included in the Bible?
Is it really that difficult to read and understand?
Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Luke 7:50 And he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."
Luke 8:12 The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
John 3:16"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 26:28 Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?" 29Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
John 20:31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Acts 10:43 To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
Acts 11:17 If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?"
Acts 13:39 and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Acts 16:31 And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."
Romans 4:5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,