We have very little evidence to suggest that serious intellectuals converted to the Christian faith between the time of Paul and the mid-second century.Most converts would have been lower-class and uneducated.This was certainly true in Paul’s own day. In a letter to one of his largest congregations, he explicitly reminds the Corinthians about their own constituency: “Consider your calling, brothers and sisters: Not many of you were wise...
-Bart D. Ehrman
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