Posted on 05/03/2008 4:38:34 PM PDT by NYer
“The FACT of Peter founding the Church of Antioch is well-documented in the historical record, including records from the first century AD.”
Gee, I see opinion but no historical facts. I gave you accepted history by one who was a contemporary of the founders, “(Acts 11:19-26) men of Cyprus and Cyrene, and Barnabas and Saul, but I don’t see Peter mentioned”.
Once again, where do you find Peter founding the church at Antioch?
I used to think the Bible was written by King James, in English, but then I found out it was actually written in German by Martin Luther.
It has been argued that Eve’s creation free of original sin doesn’t matter because sin did not yet exist in the world.
The question is a basic inquiry into whether something bad has to exist first before something can be said to be good.
So can one be blessed to be created “witout sin” even if sin had not entered the world? You betcha. Just like God is good even without the need for evil to exists to define Him in contrast
Did you read the post you replied to?
I don’t think my words were that difficult.
It’s conceivable that one could try again . . . to understand.
Eusebius, History of the Church, III, 36
And why not??? The English is a translation of the Greek/Hebrew...
There are over two hundred bibles out there translated from the Greek/Hebrew...
What Greek translation could you possibly come up with that hasn't already been covered in one of these English translations???
Everybody studies Greek now days in hopes of coming up with some NEW nugget of information...There aren't any...
When the 'angel' said Mary was blessed 'among women', the translation is that Mary was 'highly favored'...
You can look for another translation of the word til the cows come home but you won't find one that improves on that translation, or elevates Mary to a higher position without distorting the Greek word used for the translation...
Good luck to ya...
Well that settles it then...The Apostle Paul was wrong...
Bottom line. If Jesus wanted to teach from a book, He would have written it. Jesus taught through people, good and bad. He sent the Holy Spirit to continually guide them after he Ascended. Jesus wanted all to be one community, just as He and the Father are One.
It appears that we would do well to come up with an UNRUBBERIZED DICTIONARY for our RC bretheren. They seem to have a terminally difficult time wrapping their synapses around normal linguistic conventions.
Here the repeated confabulation, confusion, . . . something is so glaringly evident . . .
Fascinating.
I suppose in the next encyclical from the RC magicsterical we'll discover that UP = DOWN; LEFT = RIGHT; WRONG = RIGHT; BLACK = WHITE; IN = OUT; CLUELESSNESS = BRILLIANCE; . . .
Fascinating.
“Eusebius, History of the Church, III, 36”
Constantine’s historian, 300 years after the fact? Don’t you have something a little closer to the founding of the church, like Acts 11?
“Traduttore tradittore” they say in Italian.
Because you guys have been pushing your goofy "explanation" of Matt 16:18 for so long, predicated on laughable "greek scholarship."
Intellectual integrity? I think not.
INDEED.
Eusibius wrote that before their church realized there was a Trinity...
Where did the Apostle Paul claim different?
What do you find dispositive of Peter's founding of the Church at Antioch in Acts 11?
Don't most Italians speak English???
I think I'd rather NOT try and wrap my very vivid visual imagry synapses around Petronski in that state . . .
INDEED.
another is . . .
THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET . . .
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