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“Through countryside and city [the apostles] preached, and they appointed their earliest converts, testing them by the Spirit, to be the bishops and deacons of future believers. Nor was this a novelty, for bishops and deacons had been written about a long time earlier. . . . Our apostles...
Many of us who grew up in church were taught the reason Jesus came to this earth was to save us from Hell so we could go to Heaven. Your kid isn’t going to Hell regardless of their beliefs. A literal Hell isn’t biblical.See here.Jesus spoke of loving God not to get into heaven...
which integrated the cross into the linear design of the ancient Roman basilica. The earliest transepts appeared around 800 in Saint Maurice of Agaune, the cathedral of Cologne, and the cathedral of Besançon. The second innovation was the west front with flanking towers in the abbey of Saint...
Martin Lutherpublicly taughtthat only the Bible should be used as doctrine. One of the rallying cries of his movement wassola Scriptura(translated in English as 'the Bible alone'). This is one of the major positions that many professing Protestants respect Martin Luther for. ...
The earliest Latin cross is on the tomb of the Empress Galla Placidia, 451 AD. No picture of the crucifixion until the Ninth Century, nor any portable crucifix until long after. To the early Christians Christ was living, the one agonized hour was lost in the thought of his glory and ...
I write a quarterly column for Preach magazine, in which I explore a significant word or phrase in the Bible, or a theme or section of Scripture, and the ideas that it expresses. At the end of this piece I list the previous articles I have written for th
(In fact, the earliest Christians didn’t even have special buildings in which to meet during the period in which the New Testament was written. This came much later. For the most part, the first Christians met in private homes or other non-religious gathering places.) At this point, you...
The Revelation to John or the Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament. It is also referred to as The Apocalypse of John, which means the unveiling. John refers to himself by name in his writings. Many scholarly sources claim evidence that the book was written late in ...
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