Originally Posted by DBT
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Some churches has a scrap of a letter from one evangelist that they reverenced and often read, and others had another, and some had a copy of one of them, and some had no New Testament scripture at all. What they had was the faith.


Faith in word of mouth transmission: talk...which was later put to parchment.



So faith is derived from the oral that transitioned
to what was scribed.

But since such writings aren't necessary for faith
why bother?

-Bulletproof and Waterproof don't mean Idiotproof.