What Can We Believe about the Bible?
Second Lesson Cycle A Proper 23 through Thanksgiving
The words that you have just heard read in our epistle lesson for today are probably the first words that were ever written that became parts of the New Testament. Bible scholars tell us that Paul wrote this letter to the Christians at Thessalonica about twenty years after the death and resurrection of Christ and about twenty years before the Gospel According to Mark was written to collect and preserve the early church's memories of the life of Jesus. This passage can tell us a lot about the Bible as a whole.
