Timeline for What are the holy Scriptures that Timothy has known from his youth?
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| Jan 9, 2013 at 20:51 | comment | added | warren | @swasheck - I was trying to point out that even if he were under 20, the odds of him having heard any of the early epistles is remarkably low | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 18:32 | comment | added | swasheck | I see your point. I thought that you were proposing that Timothy was in fact under 20 when Paul wrote him | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 18:22 | comment | added | warren | @swasheck - the first of the NT books was written ~49 AD (or, arguably, ~42AD - though those were letters to individuals or churches, not gospels). Paul wrote Timothy in ~65AD. There is no way Timothy could have heard any of the "New Testament" at his grandmother's knee unless at least the following happened: a) he was close to Israel, b) he is under 20 when Paul writes him | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 21:18 | comment | added | swasheck | @warren I disagree. The timeline doesn't add up in your current answer. | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 21:15 | comment | added | warren | @swasheck - it's a relevant comparison, not because the letter had anything to do with his age, but because of when it was written | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 21:11 | comment | added | swasheck | Timothy's age is a red herring. It has no bearing on anything because the writing of epistles was not bound to Timothy's age. | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 19:53 | comment | added | Soldarnal | Wouldn't Timothy's youth rather make it more possible for parts of the NT to be written even while he was a child? | |
| Oct 24, 2012 at 14:09 | history | answered | warren | CC BY-SA 3.0 |