To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (19501 ) 1/12/2012 3:58:39 PM From: Brumar89 1 Recommendation Respond to James, Peter and John may have mentioned Jesus and earlier history Considering that they were preaching a new religion founded on him, yeah, I'd say that was likely.he had been preaching for three years after the death of Jesus without conferring with any of the other apostles. He clearly conferred with Christians in Damascus and elsewhere. Remember that at this very early date, there were lots of people who had known Jesus and heard his teachings. 1 Corinthians 15 may well be an interpolation as it contradicts Paul's other writings. Also, he states that Christ appeared to the twelve, but Judas was dead by then. The disciples chose another to take his place. The "twelve" may be a term applied to the selected disciples, not a count also.There is also no mention of Christ appearing to more than five-hundred after he rose. Paul's other writings make it clear that he was not referring to Christ having a physical body. He may have been referring to the heavenly body. As far as James being Jesus' brother or half-brother it could just as easily refer to brother in a sense other than a genetically related individual. Most serious scholarship (other than Christian apologists) dates Acts later than the 60's, some into the second century. But you don't have the originals and the copies often disagree. Also, it is well known that later writers such as Eusebius were not above altering copies of the texts if anything disagreed with their literalist views. Also, there was a good measure of debate in the early church over what was to be included the New Testament canon. Some of the other early writings contradicted the writings that eventually formed the NT. That's misleading. The books in our present NT are older and were accepted farther back than any of those fake documents.
