Why the New Testament Isn’t Jesus’s Own Story: Tracing Its Development

Jesus never wrote or supervised a written scripture. He preached in a first-century Jewish oral culture. His followers carried his message by word of mouth rather than in a book. Paul’s letters were responses to disputes, discipline issues, and doctrinal confusion in scattered communities. They were not systematic theology or foundational scriptures. The Gospels themselves appeared decades after the crucifixion, as eyewitnesses were aging or gone. The New Testament canon did not descend fully formed. It emerged slowly through centuries of disagreement and debate. Church authorities eventually decided which texts counted and which did not.

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