Posted: Aug 04, 2020 2:30 pm
Clive Durdle wrote:The Epistles and the Apocalypse are assumed to be related to the Gospels and Acts. But are they?
Both make use of nomina sacra. Maybe a later editor?
..... the epistles seem to be talking of a first coming.
Maybe the letters were written earlier but there was a postal delay and they were delivered decades later?
Someone must have explored this.
The Letter of Peter to Philip (NHC 8.2) says that Jesus responded
to various questions of the gathered apostles by saying
"Why are you asking me?"
Perhaps this letter from the Nag Hammadi codices summarises the whole Christian message?