They had already received the faith and were established — the epistles encourage and correct and elaborate on the faith already received, but they don’t lay it out from scratch.
> “ but they don’t lay it out from scratch.”
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Oh, but yes they do! - Absolutely everything is in the epistles.
The stuff that you are looking to as not included were the idolatry that that formed the foundation of the Roman Catholic Anti-church.
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