Thanks for your input. Your research sounds reasonably solid.
However, I remain convinced that key aspects of that perspective were operant in the first 100-300 years of the church.
I agree with you, that it is first century belief.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
144 posted on 12/21/2008 8:15:31 PM PST by Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)