And Luke was not an apostle at all.
Well....as I have pointed out a number of times on this thread, I believe that the Babylon Peter was writing from was Babylon, not Rome.
And as I've pointed out before, I think we've both presented our evidence. We both think we're right. And neither of us are convinced. So rather than continuing to beat this dead horse, we should simply agree to disagree on this point. You're not going to convince anybody of your point and, unless you have something new to present, I doubt that you will be able to do so.
I believe John was a prisoner at Patmos....he may not have been there voluntarily.
I've heard that too. But the other part of that is that he relocated to Ephesus with the Blessed Virgin.
The house of the Virgin Mary, Ephesus
How are you so sure that these folks in India were not transplanted Israelites?
LOL--LMAO--ROTFLMAO!!!
Well, maybe the American Indians are actually descendents of Israel, too. Maybe that's why the angel Moroni came and gave them the plates. (No offense to any Mormons who might be reading the thread)
There is a legend that Joseph of Arimathea settled in Glastonbury, England, and started Christianity there. Does that mean that the English are actually descended from the 10 lost tribes?
Arthur Koestler wrote a book called the Thirteenth Tribe. This book hypothesized that the people from an ancient kingdom of Khazaria converted, en masse, to Judaism, and that all of the European Jews are actually descended from the diaspora of that nation. (No I don't buy his argument) Does that mean that Europeans are descendents of that dispersed nation?
What about the Copts? (Originally evangelized by St. Mark) Were they of the 10 tribes?
And what about the Ethiopian Jews? (Beta Israel) Or the Ethiopian Christians? (Evangelized by St. Phillip) Were they from the 10 tribes?
And then what about intermarriage? What percentage of Jewish blood is required for a person to be eligible for evangelisation from a non-Pauline source?