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Fascinating. Thank you for posting this.
Is it the fact that they were the executioners of the Lamb, or the fact that a Roman emperor adulterated Christianity with Babylonian paganism?
That's nice. It was read in the liturgy in the early second century church. Did you know that?
The reason it's not in your Bible today is because groups of Catholic bishops gathered in councils between AD 380 and AD 410, and a Pope of Rome by the name of Damasus (where'd he come from?) around the same time said that it wasn't.
Here's what IS in your Bible: Isaiah 22:21-22, Matthew 16:17-19, Luke 22:31-32, and John 21:15-19.
That Peter founded the Church of Rome is not to say that he was the first one to bring the Gospel there. Rather, he is the one that established the church hierarchy for the Christians that were already there. So the existence of non-Peter lead Christians in Rome when Paul wrote his letter to the Romans means nothing. Peter had yet arrived, just as Paul himself had yet to arrive. It is known that Peter was in Antioch before going to Rome.
Paul himself was insistent on the need for a hierarchy of bishops, presbyters and deacons in the local churches. That he does not address them in his Letter to the Romans only shows that this has not yet been established in Rome, as Paul directed Timothy and Titus to do in his letters to them. Peter would arrive latter to organize the church in Rome.
**Fecit MMXIV Dominic Bnonn Tennant; released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Auto-generated Bible popups are taken from the Lexham English Bible unless otherwise noted. Quoted passages are taken from whichever translation I find most accurate (or my own if I don’t like any of them).**
Hmmmmm — any Bible will do?
I want to read this later.
Good work mom.
IIRC christian pilgrims were going to Rome as early as the late 1st century to see the burial places of peter and Paul. The Catholic Church claims Peter is buried underneath the basilica which as part of the hillside cemetery levels off to build the church. (see Scavi tour).
For what it worth. Don’t ask for depth or history from me. I’m a part-time observer and appreciate your post.
an you information be interpreted as there was a head of the church who had a council of elders?
Yeah.
Most juries would like to see SOME kind of evidence during a trial...
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Gee, wonder why its taking so darn long to wrap up all these FReepathons these days?
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