Posted on 12/31/2015 4:29:48 PM PST by NYer
You poor thing ... in what epoch are you bogged down, the dark ages or the Time of Jesus, when people not only spole three languages in the region but read at least two of them in order to engage in commerce. Writing was so common in the Time of Jesus that there were little wax tablets all over the market places and in public forums. Statuary had inscriptions written on their pedestals, which people recognize immediately!
No, it was earlier than that.
2016 years from the year 2016 is zero.
They started copying it down from the year Zero, the year that Catholicism started.
Jesus was the first Catholic, I don’t know if He became one in the womb or when He was born. It’s a mystery...
Other Catholics say Catholicism started in the yr 33.
They do agree on one thing, their pope is a dope!
No, you cannot go where you already are.
But the Holy Spirit can work on your soul, as well as show you what the Bible is saying to you.
But you must desire a relationship with God with all your heart and all your soul.—Luke 10:27
If there was a synagogue in the town there was a least one who could read.
Christians were considered to be primarily responsible for the adoption of the codex which allowed writing on both sides. This made the collection of writings easier to obtain and transport. For example Papyrus 46 contains Paul's letters on one handy volume.
It is true that a significant minority of the population was literate in this time period. This was usually the top layer of society. A much larger number, but still a definite minority, had a minimal but functional literacy.
Professional scribes were available to assist in drawing up and reading legal documents.
The availability of papyrus and slaves made it possible for books to be produced in the Hellenistic age on a scale previously unknown. Learning was highly prized and there were publishers and booksellers in the major cities to satisfy the desire for reading. Most of the cities of the Greek world had libraries.
The library at Alexandria for instance had an estimated 700,000 rolls in its collection at one time.
A form of entertainment in the first century would be to have friends over to your house and read to them. This is one of the ways the Gospels and Paul's letters became "public".....but only within the circles of the churches and of course by reading in the context of the Christian assemblies.
The formal dedications to Theophilus in Luke and Acts indicates these books were intended for a wider audience that just the Christian community and reflect a higher level of culture.
Source: Backgrounds of Early Christianity, Everett Ferguson, pp128-134
What we learn from this is that early Christianity was in the forefront of trying to get the Word out by using the newest technology available.
The early church was in the business of getting the Word out to the people in any manner possible. Koine Greek was the principal language of commerce throughout the Roman Empire. Although Palestine was multilingual in the first century, Greek was the language of choice in order to disseminate a message as widely as possible. As a result, all of the NT was written in Greek.
Ferguson, pp135-136
You might find my post 1484 of interest.
It HAS spoken!!
The last recorded words coming from it were:
John 2:5
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
Big deal. Hand copied and hand written.
So it’s a little slower but not impossible.
It’s plenty feasible that a lot of things were written down.
But I know that doesn’t fit with Catholic agenda for trying to justify keeping Scripture out of the hands of the laity.
It says *Do not bow down to.*
Catholics DO bow down to.
THAT can be seen.
Onan's method was *natural*. There was no artificial anything involved and it was still considered sin.
Therefore if the birth control itself is sinful then it's sinful whether the method is *artificial* or *natural*.
Raising the artificial vs natural issue is just hair splitting, looking for a technicality to get away with sin.
It’s like veniial and mortal. Caths can split more hairs than imagined.
Oh. Do ALL Catholics dress the same?
Do they all listen to the same music?
Do they all think they're not going to heaven?
I hadn't noticed.
... if they basically agree on everything (and they probably do on most) why don't they join hands, become a powerful and influential group, and stop opposing each other???
Roman rite vs EO.
Where's the unity in that? They both claim to be the ORIGINAL Catholic church with the other being in schism.
The EO don't recognize the supremacy of the pope and previous popes have ex cathedra condemned to hell anyone who doesn't submit to the papacy, including the EO.
Care to try again at condemning the Prots without being a hypocrite?
God always has a remnant.
And they’ve never been part of the crowd.
Peter and John were fishermen, and they wrote parts of the NT.
THEY knew how to write.
And they were just fishermen.
To what? Was that AFTER he asked, "are you awake?"
:-)
Half those removed posts belonged to one person.
Literacy in the Time of Jesus - Could His Words Have Been Recorded in His Lifetime?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1573658/posts
Not that it’s going to convince the person whose mind is already made up. After all, we don’t want to confuse anyone with the facts.
But the rest of us might find this thread interesting.
I certainly did.
All sin has the same penalty.
Death, separation from God.
All sin has the same solution.
Forgiveness granted by grace through faith in Christ, the blood of Jesus being the ONLY thing that can cleanse from sin.
Motive, motive, motive. Follow the motive. I believe people can do the right thing, for the wrong motive, and still be sinning. If their motive, is a just a way to get around something, they will not please God, no matter what they do.
Well, actually they are, while it is the fruit of Rome (which she manifestly considers members) that is far more a disunified admixture of variant beliefs, and thus evangelicals are seen by both liberals and many RCs as their greatest Western threat.
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