Posted on 01/22/2015 5:18:09 PM PST by Jandy on Genesis
In Part 1 we considered the Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox accounts of the origins of the Church of England. The information provided in Part 1 was taken from official websites of each of these branches of the catholic Faith. There is only point on which all three accounts agree: Augustine was the official representative of Rome and was based in Canterbury. So it is that the Britons were claimed as a Roman franchise. That historical reality has had ramifications beyond Henry VIII and the Reformation. The Roman narrative has dominated the conversation for so long that the deficiencies of the account are rarely questioned.
Rome is in error when it claims to have brought Christianity to the Britons and that there was no priesthood in Britain prior to Augustine. Father Louis R. Tarsitano expressed the truth when he wrote: ... it is a simple error of fact to claim that the Anglican Church “began” in the Reformation, or even with the late 6th century mission of St. Augustine to evangelize the newly arrived Anglo-Saxon pagans. The bishops of a five-centuries-old Christian Church met Augustine on the beach. (Of Forms and the Anglican Way)
(Excerpt) Read more at biblicalanthropology.blogspot.com ...
For a moment I thought that you were talking about Christianity....not so!!!
yes. The article goes on to the kookie idea of British Israelites
Why not post your whole blog rather than trying to scam hits from us?
British Israelites? Do some anthropological research about the Habiru/Hebrew. They existed thousands of years before the Israelites came into existence.
Joseph of Ar-Mathea was a follower of Jesus Christ, one of His kinsmen, and the ruler-priest who provided his own tomb for Jesus’ burial.
Joseph had business and probably family connections in Cornwall. The Cornish say that he once visited the Ding Dong mining operation. Eusebius of Caesarea (260–340 A.D.) may have been referring to this in Demonstratio Evangelica when he reports that some of Jesus’ earliest disciples “have crossed the Ocean and reached the Isles of Britain.” Since one qualification of membership in the Sanhedrin was facility of multiple languages, Joseph would have been able to communicate with the people of Britain.
As a ruler-priest Joseph would have known men who were qualified to serve as Christian priests in Britain and he would have been able to arrange for their ordination. Being of advanced age, he would have been older than Jesus and most of His Apostles. This means that any ordinations he may have arranged in Cornwall could have taken place within a few years of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
There is no reason to doubt the historicity of Joseph Ar-Mathea’s connection to Cornwall in spite of the dubious legends from the Middle Ages. He had business in Cornwall as a metal tradesman and a mining expert. From the time of the earliest pharaohs mining and tomb construction were the work of ruler-priests. Joseph was likely engaged in both, even as he was responsible for the tomb where the Lord Jesus was laid to rest. As a high ranking priest of the Sanhedrin, he had authority to ordain priests. As a follower of Jesus Messiah, he is the key to understanding the continuity between the priesthood attached to the promises made to Abraham and his Habiru/Hebrew ancestors and the priesthood of the Church.
Yes, this is Church history, from an anthropological perspective.
“....The Cornish say that he once visited the Ding dong mining operation....”
OK, I did a search on the phrase “Ding dong mining operation “.
Oddly, all I get is the same post:
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