Who is your favorite writer of the New Testament?

Question

For me, in English: Paul
In Greek: John..... because he writes like a fisherman and it is really easy to understand. But in Greek Paul uses like 12 letter long words and is like PhD level Greek. John and Peter are particularly easy. Matthew and Luke are slightly harder since they were better educated and wrote better.

Answer 1

Doubtful any of them were literate enough to write. I am sure the scribes they had did it for them. Not to many people back then were educated...and from what I would gather of Jesus's disciples...they weren't really the college crowd.

Answer 2

Yeah, well you know that Paul was GAY, don't you ?

Maybe you didn't, and I understand that, after all, you don't think for yourself when you endlessly reiterate "dogma"

As for the rest of the NT "writers", I can't make up my mind, Mark only copied Matthew, (and added a few bits), Luke plagiarised Mark, and added a few more bits in there. Then the Pauline letters were copied and forged, and so on.

Of the 13 New Testament letters of Paul, only 7 are now accepted as largely authentic. The so called "patoral" letters to Timothy and Titus are regarded as fakes by all but the most conservative of theologians. Computer studies have confirmed that the author of the Pastorals is definitely not the author of the letters to the Galatians, Romans, and Corinthians. Even the great orthodox propagandist Bishop Eusebius does not include them in his bible.

Sorry, I won't try and confuse you with "facts" you have already made up your mind, and that's a bit sad..but it's the way you choose to go.

Answer 3

John

Answer 4

I think Cartier-Bresson is a good choice. He has a natural sense of composition. He never seems to force a situation; his candids nonetheless have great formal appeal, as though he perceives life in terms of framing and order, like a painter. He's not shrill or weird--doesn't depend upon the bizarre or absurd but remains supremely human. Beside him Diane Arbus seems a trickster, Lisette Model or Brassai perverse. I also think Irving Penn, in a different way--a studio way--is superb. Steichen over his long career took many memorable pictures.

Answer 5

Definitely Paul (especially the book of Romans) and John.

Answer 6

Paul and John

Answer 7

Paul for other than Gospel material, and John for Gospel material. Though I have to say, they are all cool, I would place Luke as a favorite if I could.

Least favorite new Testament writer: James.

Answer 8

It is a toss up between Paul and John. Paul gives us revelation of the God, the Holy Spirit, and the Christian life while John gives us revelation of the personality of Jesus and His power.

Answer 9

Whoever wrote the books attributed to John, with the exception of Revelation. Whoever wrote that book had a few too many magic mushrooms.

Answer 10

I love the storys in Acts written. Paul