When we speak about truth and having a love for the truth we must start asking questions as to where ideas came from who suggested them and why where they given. For example Offering plates were invented by the Roman Catholic Church between the first and second crusades when they had taped out the european nobility for funds and still came up short they turned to the laity that had traditionally been the poor.It created was by design so that the priests and ushers could see what was being offered by who and at the time if a man was considered wealthier than what he was offering they would have a chat in the confessional or perhaps the inquisitor would call on him.
The term New Testament was coined by "Tertullian" in the year 200 it was the name of his new latin translation of the gospels and epistles that he was pushing at the time --unfortunately the name stuck and came to mean something other than "a new translation"
About 150 yeaars later the word New Testament and Old Testament were codified with the creation of the cannon of scripture. Forever dividing Gods word into the Christian part and the Jewish part -- Jesus called it the law and the prophets and all verses that refer to the law and the prophets by Christ and the Apostles are always called scripture.
In the new testament the Apostles make no references to each others writings as scripture instead it is all called the gospel. And this was prophesied as as much by Isaiah preaching Good News to the poor. . . oddly enought when Christ proclaimed his ministry in galilee he opened the gosepl era with reading that very passage in Isaiah.
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Interesting.
Thank-you for posting this. The Didache has been part of Orthodox libraries for nearly two thousand years. Much of what it says about fasting and preparation for reception of the Eucharist are practiced to this day among Orthodox Christians. While it has never been considered canonical, Athanasius, for example, held it to be deutero-canonical and it tells us a lot about very early Christian practice and belief.
Printed for later study by a bible thumping born again newly ordained minister. Thank you
Tithing is merely a 50-year-old doctrine?
On the contrary, if you look at St. Paul's epistles you'll see that he was taking up a collection back in the first century!
The term New Testament was coined by "Tertullian"
No, it was coined by Jesus. See Luke 22:20.
In the new testament the Apostles make no references to each others writings as scripture
... our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you: As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. (2 Peter 3:15-16)
Do you know what the position of the Vatican is on the Didache, and what it was pre-Vat II?
It was written by Barnabus and the Apostle Paul.
It was brought to Peter, James, and John as the primary example of what they were preaching to the Gentiles.
It was accepted, and the rest is history.
"but if he ask for money, he is a false prophet."
This is why I don't go to church but go to Bible study in private homes.