On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:
> Jesus was with them for a month + after his death till Pentecost. Why
> wouldn't he return in a couple of weeks?
After being in Heaven, why would he return to a bunch of smelly
desert guys? Are you saying he's stupid?
> Why did it take long to start writing? I think it was the shock of
> loosing
> Christ and then enacting what their task was.
Probably more like writer's block. After all, I'm sure that they
realized that 2000 years from then, small-minded people would be
literally interpreting the translation of the translation of the
translation of what they would write, and then killing lots of people
based on that. That's enough to give anyone pause!
> Oh the early years and starting a new organization,
> the joy, the politics, the martyrdom.
And the dues. Don't forget that collecting the dues from the new
membership must have taken up a lot of their time.
-- Ed Leafe
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