So, by your bizarre interpretation of Scripture, Saint Stephen (the FIRST Christian martyr) and Saint James (brother of Saint John and one of three to witness the Transfiguration) WERE NOT Christians because they were both martyred before Saint Paul wrote any of his epistles.
You throw out everything except the Gospels, you don't have much...
Just the actual Words of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Silly, but sad...
What sect do you belong to anyway?
You just can't have Protestantism because it uses an assumed supremacy of the Pauline scripture over the actual words of Christ, not to reform but to revise the Gospels and shape Christianity to their man-made and self-serving theology.
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Acts 7:59-60
59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
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κοιμάω: 1) to cause to sleep, put to sleep 2) metaph. a) to still, calm, quiet b) to fall asleep, to sleep c) to die ======================================= So Wag, do you wake Stephen up before you unbiblically communicate with him?
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"Saint Stephen (the FIRST Christian martyr) "
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Acts 7:59-60
59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
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κοιμάω: 1) to cause to sleep, put to sleep 2) metaph. a) to still, calm, quiet b) to fall asleep, to sleep c) to die
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So Wag, do you wake Stephen up before you unbiblically communicate with him?
Well it's far bigger than just Paul...Luke's account in Acts must be just as illegitimate as Paul's epistles...
Act 11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Apparently then, Luke lied...
Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
Mat 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Well pity for you...Salvation wasn't offered to you...It was only offered to Jews...Your church is illegitimate as well...
Joh 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
What's really funny is that you don't know for sure whether Jesus said any of that stuff that is printed in red ink...All you know for sure is that the authors of those books make the claim that Jesus said those things...
Luke writes what he says Jesus said, before the resurrection...Paul writes what he claims Jesus said, after the resurrection...Don't you guys ever think these things thru, or you just blindly accept what your religion tells you???