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Historical Writings Today in Christian History Sunday, April 6 [excerpts]
.studylight.org ^ | Sunday, April 6 | William D. Blake

Posted on 04/06/2025 6:34:53 AM PDT by daniel1212

885
(Probable date) Death of Methodius, who with his brother Cyril had evangelized the Balkans.

1593
Hanging in London of John Greenwood and Henry Barrow, non-conformists who denied that the Church of England had biblical authority.

1735
The first Moravians from Europe arrived in America. Invited by colonial governor James Oglethorpe, ten males of the "Unitas Fratrum" landed in Savannah, Georgia after sailing from England in February.

1851
Anglican priest Henry E. Manning is received into the Roman Catholic Church. He will become archbishop of Westminster in 1865 and a cardinal in 1875.

1868
Mormon church leader Brigham Young, 67, married his 27th and last wife. (In all, Brigham Young's wives bore him 47 children.)

1894
Death in Denver, Colorado, of William M. Thomson, a missionary veteran of work in Syria and author of The Land and the Book which illustrated the Bible with photographs of the Middle East. The work enjoyed popularity in the United States and in Britain, where it sold more copies than any other American publication except Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

© 1987-2020, William D. Blake. Portions used by permission of the author, from "Almanac of the Christian Church"

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TOPICS: Catholic; Evangelical Christian; General Discusssion; History
KEYWORDS: enduringfaith; martyrs; persecution; savingfaith
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Note:posting history does not mean affirming all that is recorded, and the term "Christian" itself is to be defined by the the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, ,including Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the OT and the gospels

1 posted on 04/06/2025 6:34:53 AM PDT by daniel1212
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To: daniel1212

Thank you for posting this.


2 posted on 04/06/2025 7:05:10 AM PDT by EliRoom8 ( -- )
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To: daniel1212
I feel in the modern-day pedantic sense of the word,
the meaning of the "term" Christian simply means or applies to one for being "a nice person..."

In a similar theological sense, I feel the modernism of the term Christian now means,
"one who invents a faith, in their own image and desire,
in order to assuage their personal faults and weaknesses.."

I could be off here, but when I look around...

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3 posted on 04/07/2025 1:40:35 PM PDT by MurphsLaw (“Be Doers of the Word… not Hearers Only, deceiving yourself.”)
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