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Why wouldn’t the “amulet” be a phylactery (Tefillin)? Early Christians were also Jews, or had been Jews. Isn’t this just a phylactery Christian style? Why make it sound like a superstition?

The early Christians in the book of Acts were very much aware of phylacteries, being as they were Jews, they were heavily persecuted by their fellow Jews and the Romans, yet we read nowhere in the book of Acts that they strapped phylacteries on their head and arm as protective amulets. Neither do we see directives in the epistles for their readers when threatened with persecution to do so.

The kingdom of God was an external thing in the Old Testament, the phylacteries for instance, certain scriptures attached to their heads and arms; as opposed to the New Testament which is the kingdom of God internalized, Luke 17:20, 21. i.e., the revelation of Jesus Christ.