"Tim Lamb" wrote in message
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Point of curiosity.
Would the son of a carpenter and his fishermen disciples be able to read and write at
that time?

The same could be said of the majority of the population in
most places certainly up until the invention of printing.
They got all their religious information by word of mouth
from priests, monks etc either by way of teaching or in
sermons.

The teaching and sermons would mainly have been in terms
of simple ideas and principles and rules to follow, which
could be easily explained by word of mouth. And the same
still applies to most people's religious thinking today.

michael adams

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