Is one-third of the NT made up of miscellaneous letters because people knew so little about Jesus?

Answer 1

Most of the NT's pretty much sand as far as I know. Lots of rocks, sure, and the occasional town, and of course Darwin's meant to be pretty nice, by the water and all...

Answer 2

They were written to people because they had questions about Jesus and the Christian faith. Several of the letters (like 1 and 2 Corinthians) were written to direct response to letters with questions from the churches. Others were written to encourage, instruction, and thank the churches as needed.

Because there was no way to record what was said (no tape recorders, CDs, video cameras, etc) the only records we have of what the apostles believed and are their writing.

Contained within their letters are the fundamental points of their message. So it is the only record we have - beyond a single history of their mission trips in Acts - to know what they believed and taught.

Answer 3

No. Only part of the NT is the story of Jesus' life, because that is only part of the doctrine that has become Christianity. The rest of the NT is letters, mostly from Paul, because his preaching and letters became the moral code and doctrine that are Christianity. Many of the dictates that form Christian belief, and especially Christian mores and morals, are from those letters as Paul and others made real-life decisions and examples based on the meaning of Jesus' life.

Answer 4

On the contrary. The New Testament was written primarily by the Apostles, those men who walked and talked with Jesus. A few other books(or letters) were written by men who were converted to Christ by an Apostle. For example, Luke was a convert of Paul, and Mark was a convert of Peter.
For those who would say the Bible is not the Word of God, or that the Bible contains numerous errors I would say this: Paul could say in 2nd Timothy 3:16, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God." That's the Greek word, "theopneustos" meaning "God-Breathed." Every single word was given from God to 40 different men, and 2nd Peter 1:21 adds: "for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God." Now that was the Old Testament. The New Testament wasn't in existence when Paul used these verses. He was telling the churches in his letters what had happened in the past, but in John 16:12-13, Jesus talked about the coming of the New Testament. He says, "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
That's the New Testamant. And we can say with John 17:17, "Your Word is Truth." Today, we have 66 books written by 40 different individuals on 3 continents covering a period of 1,500 years and there's not one mistake, regardless of what some of the critics say. They haven't studied God's Word enough to know the truth. Among the writers we had kings, poets, philosophers, prophets, scholars and fisherman. And I want you to know we have all of the Word of God today. Someone says, "Yes, but we don't have the original manuscripts" Who said so?
We have copies totalling 24,800. Now, how do we know that they're right? Well, if you take 20 items and you compare them and 19 state one thing and one doesn't, then the one is in error. We've got 24,800 manuscripts that exist today to compare one against another and we have another 80,000 quotations from the church fathers, enough to put the entire Bible together with the exception of 11 verses. Take the 80,000 quotations from the church fathers and the 24,800 manuscripts for a total of 104,800 and you have all of God's Word dozens and hundreds of times. This is so because God's Word is literally flawless. After computers have compared millions, or even billions, of letters in analyzing the 104,800 manuscripts the texts are basically flawless. So, don't listen to the critics. The Bible is God's Holy Word without error!

Answer 5

The majority of the letters of the New Testament were written to the early churches. For example, the "book" of Ephesians was a letter written to the church of Christ in Ephesus as was Galatians, Thessalonians, Philippians, Colossians and the two books of Corinthians. The other letters were written to and from various christians who were involved in missionaries to various areas, preaching God's word to the world.

Answer 6

Actually no. There were quite a few more testimonies written about the same thing. The council just took it on them selves to remove something like 30 other books from the bible for various reasons. Some non biblical, some copies, some repeats.....etc
Many had influences over what we read today, and still mess it up according to their power over the people.

Answer 7

the letters indicate that the authors knew a lot about Jesus. Those they were writing to were in various stages of knowledge with all the regular confusions of trying to apply principles to life.

Answer 8

Dear Swampthi.....
The answer is no.
Peter, one of the writers of those letters, explained the purpose:
"this is now the second letter I am writing YOU, in which, as in my first one, I am arousing YOUR clear thinking faculties by way of a reminder." 2 Peter 3:1
"By way of a reminder."
Reminders are necessary ....otherwise there would never be coaches.

Answer 9

Your lack of knowledge of the New Testament is only exceeded by your bigotry and intolerance toward all things Christian.