Recently Discovered: 1700-Year-Old Letter Unveiling How Christians Lived Centuries Ago

GODTV ^ | 07/22/2019 | Rhoda Gayle

[Red Badger]

https://www.samuelsseafood.com/blog/the-art-of-preparing-monkfish-liver/

[Kommodor]

Neither is it written in the official King James vernacular.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[treetopsandroofs]

Much more info than I expected, thanks.

[metmom]

The Papyrus P.Bas. 2.43 was written by a man named Arrianus to his brother Paulus, who was believed to be named after the apostle Paul. The letter has been dated to 230s AD and is thus older than all previously known Christian documentary evidence from Roman Egypt.

The math doesn't work.

Jesus was born about 1 AD and died about 33 AD. The church started pretty soon after that and it wasn't very long before Saul began persecuting it. So by the 30's AD, Saul was already an adult.

I seriously doubt he lived another 200 years.

[miliantnutcase]

I wonder how Twitter will be viewed 1700 years from now.

[metmom]

Neither is Sola Scriptura.

Wrong again.

2 Timothy 3:14-17 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

The letter has been dated to 230s AD and is thus older than all previously known Christian documentary evidence from Roman Egypt.

One piece of clarification/correction needed. The treasure trove of documents from the city dump at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt includes Christian documents, including portions of the New Testament, from the early to mid second century.

[mbarker12474]

All: Before responding to posts with a serious rebuttal, make sure the post isn’t making a wisecrack.

[Wuli]

The letter is addressed to his brother Paulus and at one point it says: “Our lady mother is well and salutes you as well as your wives and sweetest children”

Wives??? Is he speaking of Paulus as having more than one wife???

[Ancesthntr]

“It describes day-to-day family matters...”

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“My lord wife still constantly nags me about leaving the seat on the commode down, taking out the garbage just after I sit down with a beer upon coming home from a hard day’s work, and constantly asks me about me feelings. If there is such a thing as Hell, surely this is a preview.”

[Ancesthntr]

I do believe that the comment was meant are sarcasm.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

divorced? Was that possible among Christians of that time?

[exnavy]

You make odd statements.

[mikeus_maximus]

“Neither is Sola Scriptura.”

It would be odd if it did, since that was the common and unquestioned understanding of scriptures in the first few centuries. Why state the obvious? Conversely, if there had been a pope between the writer and the Lord, you’d think he would pay homage. But you probably know the history of that human invention.

[thinden]

What a miracle that we are still digging up more and more artifacts dating back to the time of Christ!

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better get um before the caliphate destroys um

[Fhios]

I’m having headline problems and I feel misplaced in time somewhere.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

“your wives”?

[TiGuy22]

“your wives”?

Joseph Smith?