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To: Pollster1

Kind of strange that Jesus never wrote anything since he was a prophet.All of his followers had something to say yet he never wrote anything down.


75 posted on 12/19/2011 6:40:09 PM PST by eastforker (I'll pick Rick but I still root for Newt.)
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To: eastforker
Kind of strange that Jesus never wrote anything since he was a prophet.All of his followers had something to say yet he never wrote anything down.

The only recorded writing of Jesus is in John 8:6.

So therefore, even though He was very literate, He depended on the Church that He Created to do the evangelizing to the world (with His and with the Holy Spirit's guidance and strengthening). The last words in Matthew's Gospel hold the clue.

77 posted on 12/19/2011 6:45:28 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: eastforker
Kind of strange that Jesus never wrote anything since he was a prophet.All of his followers had something to say yet he never wrote anything down.

"All" His followers had something to say? I missed the writings of most of them. Matthew's is preserved, as is Peter's as transcribed by Mark, and John's. The rest? Unless they are with "Q", I assume those followers had another mission and didn't need to write because Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Peter took care of that task.

We know that nothing Jesus wrote has survived in the public sphere, which is very different from Him never writing anything down. I'm not sure why that would be strange, since what is written clearly states His purpose, and it was not to serve as yet another scribe.

Similarly, I suspect we have nothing that Jim Lovell wrote during his Apollo 13 mission. Is it strange that we only have his writings well after the fact? Or does that make sense given that he was doing something both more important and more urgent than writing memoirs at the time?

80 posted on 12/19/2011 6:54:41 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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