why would you call word of mouth, which ALL early Christianity was, hearsay??? that's tha way it was for many years....books are relatively new you know and while there were probably letters and such, there weren't very many and not all the apostles had copies of them....
Why Catholics fall for that meme I’ll probably never understand. Paul commended the Bereans because they “searched the scriptures daily”. What do Catholics think those scriptures were? Peter called the writings of Paul scripture. Do Catholics honestly think that those writings weren’t disseminated widely since they were considered to be equal to the Old Testament? Seriously, Catholics have fallen for a lie from the RCC that anyone who studies history knows.
>> “books are relatively new you know and while there were probably letters and such, there weren’t very many and not all the apostles had copies of them.” <<
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What an idiotic statement!
The apostles wrote them; why would they need copies of their own letters?
The individual believers are the ones that were making copies of them; where do you think all the thousands of MS copies came from?
The scriptures to which they all referred were the Torah scrolls in the synagogues that dotted the lands.