Reply #117: You both have evaded my central point for a long time.

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I've said it many times, no one addresses it. That is why I have a tendency to get rude.

"But just because there is no account during Jesus' lifetime it doesn't mean we shouldn't have accounts from his followers who wrote about his sacred figure."

Why?

If there is no need in the early stages of the movement to convey information in other ways than verbally, one-on-one, why should anyone write it down?

Who would they be writing to? For what purpose? It took a long time for the movement to get large enough, and move out of it's immediate geographic area. Verbal interaction, in terms of preaching and services would pretty well cover it.

The chief evangelist is Paul; there are apparently others, but they didn't write letters, or wrote letters than weren't preserved.