Polycarp, and the presbyters with him, to the Church of God sojourning at Philippi: Mercy to you, and peace from God Almighty, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour, be multiplied.
I exhort you all, therefore, to yield obedience to the word of righteousness, and to exercise all patience, such as you have seen [set] before your eyes, not only in the case of the blessed Ignatius, and Zosimus, and Rufus... they are [now] in their due place in the presence of the Lord, with whom also they suffered. For they loved not this present world, but Him who died for us, and for our sakes was raised again by God from the dead.
TenQ: Jesus said: My Deity, my Deity, why have you forsaken me? Elohim, Eloha, Allah are all semitic language all meaning the same thing Deity/God/gods.
Muslims disagree : they claim that Allah is the personal name of their Elohim (God).
If you like, cry more than the bereaved: I don't care! BUT Please only after you have educated yourself about Islam, you can come back here. Otherwise, consider yourself ignored!
He said, elahi lema sebaqtani.
I’m talking history and common sense language here, both you and Muslims are worshipping Abrahamaic gods. Before making any other post, have knowledge on this topic, and don’t be assuming please.
SIRTee15: Since you've done some good reading of apostolic fathers. Tell me who is father Clement.
Now we about to discuss 1st century Christianity.
Yes who is father clement; bring out his work in 1st century christianity. nowhere is he described as a bishop or called such until about 100 years after his death.
SIRTee15: Don't worry we wil get there... But first tell me who is father polycarp
in his Epistle to the Philippians, Polycarp does not mention ever having met John or any other apostles nor does he mention him having received anything directly from any of them.
We have no good evidence that Polycarp [c. 69/80–155/166 CE] was a student of the Apostle John, but plenty of second-century “evidence” that associates Polycarp with the Apostle John. Francis A. Sullivan SJ explains, in From Apostles to Bishops, how Christian traditions about Polycarp grew during the second and third centuries:
Irenaeus [c. 130–202 CE] said Polycarp had been made bishop of Smyrna “by the apostles.” Tertullian [155–220 CE] later said that Polycarp had been made bishop of Smyrna “by John.” The letter of Ignatius to Polycarp makes no mention of his having been appointed by an apostle.
SIRTee15: What u need is education on early Christianity in the 1st century. Christianity started in the 1st century AD not 2nd century. You can start by reading apostolic fathers. U want to engage me, read about apostolic fathers.
All the gospel books were named by early church fathers. You are worshipping a Roman Parody.
SIRTee15: What u need is education on early Christianity in the 1st century. Christianity started in the 1st century AD not 2nd century. You can start by reading apostolic fathers. U want to engage me, read about apostolic fathers.
SIRTee15: What u need is education on early Christianity in the 1st century. Christianity started in the 1st century AD not 2nd century. You can start by reading apostolic fathers. U want to engage me, read about apostolic fathers.
There was nothing like “Christianity” in the first century.
Ramblings of a Jewish slave, this is simple hebrew language but because of your agenda you don’t want to learn. Worthless thing.
Elated177, ode Unfortunate slave, oloriburuku cum worthless yahweh slave, if you were are not insane and doomed then you will know you are an illiterate.
Keep being a slave to the isrealite god, yahweh. Agbako eranko odanra
martinosi: The Know how it has protected and guided their country....fo over 4000 years..
Hope you know Ethiopia were originally a Muslim country, their conversion to Christianity was intentional, heard of Haile Selassie? how is he regarded in Ethiopia?
martinosi: 1 - The first Country mentioned in Scripture is Ethiopia
2- Moses Married an Ethiopian Woman
3 - Moses Wrote the First 5 Books of the Scripture in Amharic & Hebrew, Amharic is the Official Language of Ethiopia
4 - Ethiopia was the First Country to Make Jesus of Nazareth Way of life a National Belief System in 60AD 2000 years Ago ie the State Religion
5 - Ethiopians were counsellors in the Court of Israel Kings 2900 Years Ago
6 - The Oldest Scriptural Bible in the World with Old & New Testament Writings is the Ethiopian Coptic Bible that has 88 Books
7 - King James of England translated the English version of the Bible from the Ethiopian Coptic Text of Amharic, Hebrew writings in 1610
8 - Ethiopia is the Only country in the world that has never been ruled by outsiders or conquered or colonised
And with all these facts would you still call Christianity a Foreign Religion to the continent of Africa when Europeans only recognised it officially 1000 years ago
You need to post with factual basis and not just comment because you can.
“The Druidic inhabitants of “Glastonbury Lake Village” were highly skilled woodworkers and carpenters; hence, their god was a woodworker and carpenter named Yesu/Esus/Hesus, long prior the Christian era. When one understands the brotherhood and its priestcraft, it is not surprising that Jews who purportedly lived in the very heart of Druidism–the fabled Avalon itself–and who would know about the future Druid savior and other doctrines, would return from Palestine with tales that “the” Messiah by that very name had been born in Judea.” https://stellarhousepublishing.com/christ-great-britain/
ESUS – A TRINITY GOD
The Roman poet Lucan described ‘Esus” in a poem, the Pharsalia, dating from the 1st c. AD, the last great battle in the civil war between Pompey and Caesar. In it, he alludes to the journey of Caesar’s troops through southern Gaul and their encounter with three Gaulish gods: Taranis, Teutates and ‘Esus’ (Pharsalia I, 444-6). Lucan describes this triad (trinity) as cruel, savage and demanding of human sacrifice: ‘horrid ‘Esus’ with his wild altars’.
I don’t know why a loving god needs blood(animals and humans) before he can forgive, he even killed his own son to “atone” for your sins 😂😂
The Christian religion is a PARODY on the worship of the Sun, in which they worship a Jewish man in place of the sun. The quest for an historical Christ is doomed to failure because "iesus chrestus" doesn’t exist.
Of the many gospels written in antiquity, exactly four gospels came to be accepted as part of the New Testament, or canonical. An insistence upon a canonical four, and no others, was a central theme of Irenaeus of Lyon.
He claimed only four in number; according to Romer, "like the four zones of the world, the four winds, the four divisions of man’s estate, and the four forms of the first living creatures – the lion of Mark, the calf of Luke, the man of Matthew, the eagle of John."
The four living creatures that John of Patmos sees in the Book of Revelation are the author's reworking of the living creatures in the visions of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1:5–28)[8] and Isaiah (Isaiah 6:2).
The four gospels then became Church canon for the orthodox faith. Most of the other claimed gospel writings were burned, destroyed, or lost. The names of the authors of the gospels were assigned to the works by the early church fathers in the 2nd century AD; none of the writers signed their work as they remained unknown.
The ruling deity of day, Helios or the sun as God, was the supreme god of the ancient world universally worshipped in both continents, the old and the new world.
Christ/Christian comes from the Greek word "Christos" meaning "Anointed one". Christos originates from the Greek word 'Chrestos,' which means 'Good' and was used in the Pagan Greek & Roman religions to give reference to their Sun-god, "Helios." Roman Emperor Constantine worshipped "Christos Helios," which means "Christ-The-True-Sun." An Orphic saying, supposedly given by an oracle of Apollo, goes: “Zeus, Hades, Helios-Dionysus, three gods in one godhead!"
Roman Emperor Constantine, in 321AD, legislated Sun-day as a day of rest dedicated to the Greek and Roman Sun-god, Helios. Constantine worshipped "Christos Helios," which means "Christ-The-True-Sun." The Roman Catholic Church venerates Sun-day as its Sabbath even today and has handed it down to Christianity.
Chrestos was frequently used as both a title and a name, as in Mithidates Chrestos, co-King of Pontus, and Socrates Chrestos, King of Bithynia. Several Hellenistic deities were bestowed with the title, such as Osiris Chreistos, Isis Chreste, Helios Christos, Apollo Chrestos, Serapis Chrestos, Hades Chrestos, Persephone Chreste, Hermes Chrestos, Eileithyia Chreste, and Chrestos Mithras.
The Codex Sinaiticus, one of the earliest almost complete collections of the books of the New Testament, belongs to the Alexandrian test-type family. Where the three places in the New Testament have the word 'Christianoi', translated into English as 'Christians' (Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, 1 Peter 4:16), the Codex Sinaiticus has the word 'Chrestianoi'. Also, the references to 'Jesus Christ' and 'Christ Jesus' are instead to 'Jesus Chrestos' and 'Chrestos Jesus'. "Jesus Christ" is a medieval invention. https://www.academia.edu/43061919/Chrestos_not_Christos
“The Cross of Constantine, known as the Labarum, was nothing more than the ☧ (Chi-Rho pronounced 'CAIRO'), the monogram of Osiris, and afterward of Christ" - Thomas William Doane.”
Constantine knew of the Druidic Savior named Esus (Hesus). This savior's name was written as Esus on the west European mainland, but written as Yesu in the British Isles. Both were pronounced as "Hesus."
Hesus was born on December 25 (834 BC) by the virgin mother Mayence, fathered by 'Gudt,' the Sun deity.
Hesus died on the cross; a lamb on one side, which symbolized his innocence, and an elephant on the side, which signified the sins of the world he came to redeem. The elephant, being the largest animal known, was chosen to represent the magnitude of the sins of the world, while the lamb, from its proverbial innocent nature, was chosen to represent the innocence of the victim, the god offered as a propitiatory sacrifice. We have the Lamb was taking away the sins of the world. This legend was found in Gaul long before Jesus Christ was known to history. He was regarded as Mercury or Mithras by the Romans, and then completely adopted into the Roman Pantheon. Esus also became associated with the cult of Serapis and also of Sol Invictus, a small group of gods who identify as Solar Deities.
The cult of Esus practiced prayer to the dead, crucifixions, marriage vows, holy water, and burying of the dead as opposed to cremation..
The Druids taught their disciples many things about nature and the perfections of God, and that, there was only one God, the Creator of heaven and earth. One name, under which they worshiped him, was Esus or Hesus (“He," in Celtic meaning, "Lord," ) or Harits which is their name for Horus..." ~Julius Caesar from [Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, by Albert Churchward circa 1912] [Page 186]
Kobojunkie: You are missing the major point here which is that there is no truth to the claim that a Jews ancestry is only traced from the father's side and not the mother's. That Law there clearly shows you that it can be traced from the mother's side too.
Bigkoko: Blacks & mental illness are 5&6..... Is this not the same Adeboye who together with Asiwaju form the genesis of destruction of Nigeria, at least, pre 2015 standards?
Stalin was actually right...no matter how you treat some race; especially blacks, throw them small corns, they will sing for you and how noble you are! Tufiakwa in Swedish!!!!
Queenttoast01: He had completed His creative work (Hebrews 4:3–4). Israel only forfeited their rest in Canaan when they failed to complete the tasks given them by God (Hebrews 4:6). So, in a very literal sense, the "rest" offered by God is not about relaxation or leisure. It is about the rewards which come once we have "rested from", or "completed" the works we are assigned (Hebrews 4:9–10). This means saved Christians ought to make every effort to obey God while we still can (Hebrews 4:11).
Key to our ability to complete our work is the Word of God, specifically the written Scriptures (Hebrews 4:12). Human nature makes it easy to confuse selfish piety with true godliness (Matthew 7:21–23). We can fool others (1 Samuel 16:7), and even ourselves (Jeremiah 17:9), but not God (Hebrews 4:13). Like a razor-sharp knife, the "living and active" Bible can distinguish even those things we think are inseparable. This is important, since all of our thoughts and actions will be judged by God (Matthew 12:36).
Unique to the Christian faith, however, is our relationship with God. According to the Bible, the One who judges us has a powerful sympathy for our weaknesses (Hebrews 4:15). Not only has Christ experienced our suffering, temptation, and struggle (Philippians 2:cool, He has done so without falling to sin (2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 3:5; 1 Peter 1:19). This makes Him our perfect example (Hebrews 2:10), and our perfect sacrifice (Hebrews 2:14). It also gives us confidence to approach Him in prayer. Since He knows, first-hand, what it means to be human, He understands our flaws (Hebrews 2:18). We don't have to be afraid to bring Him our fears, failures, and needs (Hebrews 4:16).
Queenttoast01: He had completed His creative work (Hebrews 4:3–4). Israel only forfeited their rest in Canaan when they failed to complete the tasks given them by God (Hebrews 4:6). So, in a very literal sense, the "rest" offered by God is not about relaxation or leisure. It is about the rewards which come once we have "rested from", or "completed" the works we are assigned (Hebrews 4:9–10). This means saved Christians ought to make every effort to obey God while we still can (Hebrews 4:11).
Key to our ability to complete our work is the Word of God, specifically the written Scriptures (Hebrews 4:12). Human nature makes it easy to confuse selfish piety with true godliness (Matthew 7:21–23). We can fool others (1 Samuel 16:7), and even ourselves (Jeremiah 17:9), but not God (Hebrews 4:13). Like a razor-sharp knife, the "living and active" Bible can distinguish even those things we think are inseparable. This is important, since all of our thoughts and actions will be judged by God (Matthew 12:36).
Unique to the Christian faith, however, is our relationship with God. According to the Bible, the One who judges us has a powerful sympathy for our weaknesses (Hebrews 4:15). Not only has Christ experienced our suffering, temptation, and struggle (Philippians 2:cool, He has done so without falling to sin (2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 3:5; 1 Peter 1:19). This makes Him our perfect example (Hebrews 2:10), and our perfect sacrifice (Hebrews 2:14). It also gives us confidence to approach Him in prayer. Since He knows, first-hand, what it means to be human, He understands our flaws (Hebrews 2:18). We don't have to be afraid to bring Him our fears, failures, and needs (Hebrews 4:16).
mbaise1000: Jesus said, it is WRITTEN that the soon of man must, suffer and be killed but cursed be that person through whom it will be DONE. He was talking of Judas Jesus said that the BASES of the judgement is that LIGHT CAME BUT MAN chose darkness What you will ask yourself is why are some people doing the right thing and living right while some are not? When you see opportunity to do evil without anyone finding out and you decide not to do it, And you feel good you DID not do it, another will see the same opportunity and will do it most without regrets, and will repeat it over and over, these are choices made by two different people, why will that person who will do that evil not tell himself that I am not made to be like THIS? When Jesus told his disciples to go and preach the good news to the whole world, he said those who accept and are baptized will be saved and that their words will be a witness against those that did not accept, When Jesus was talking to his disciples about the conditions for divorce, and his disciples said that "if it's so , then it's difficult for man"" Jesus Christ told them that the law is made for THOSE that will keep it, it's not made for everyone to keep and it's those that keep it that will be SAVED, we can't question the creator, But nothing stops you from saying to yourself, these good thing or right lifestyle is what God made me to do and continue like that till the end. You will be saved, it's certainly not going to be easy, it can even be in endurance and Jesus said that he that ENDURES to the end is the one that can be SAVED
If he knows the beginning to end, then how do you have free will? Adam and Eve sinning was all his plan.