[terycarl]

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?

you have no idea of what went on in those days, do you???If one Apostle wanted to relate the letters of another Apostle, he would either have memorized (tradition) that message or required a written copy of it.

since written copies were virtually impossible to come by, tradition seems to be the way that the messages were transmitted to the people.

Paul wanted to tell his audience of the wonderful teachings of Peter....do you suppose that he went to Peter and asked for a transcription of his last sermon??????????????

[Elsie]

... since written copies were virtually impossible to come by...

More blather with NO proof.

[Elsie]

do you suppose that he went to Peter and asked for a transcription of his last sermon??????????????

Nah; that is a Catholic 'tradition'; peating and repeating the 'words of the Fathers' ceaselessly.