To: Elsie; ealgeone; RnMomof7; Salvation
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... we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit." SOME body was a poor teacher to these believers! <<
Christianity was a brand new religion during the time of the Acts of the Apostles and almost all their knowledge of Jesus came from first hand accounts they heard from others. It's not surprising the newly baptized Christians of that era hadn't been informed about the Holy Spirit yet. It would also be difficult convincing those Christians that the bible alone is the sole source of authority, seeing as there was no "bible" yet.
147 posted on
05/18/2015 7:53:54 PM PDT by
BillyBoy
(Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
To: BillyBoy
Why should we take your word on anything when you don't even know what type of government we have in the United States!
From your very own home page:
America is a democratic republic (sorry all you freepers who argue with the dictionary definition and believe "we're not a democracy", you're wrong).
To: BillyBoy
Christianity was a brand new religion during the time of the Acts of the Apostles and almost all their knowledge of Jesus came from first hand accounts they heard from others. It's not surprising the newly baptized Christians of that era hadn't been informed about the Holy Spirit yet. It would also be difficult convincing those Christians that the bible alone is the sole source of authority, seeing as there was no "bible" yet. I guess the early Christians at Pentecost would disagree with you as would Cornelius.
Those early Christians, while it is true did not have the Bible as we have today, did have the OT which was considered the text of the day. If you read Acts you will see it is quoted a great deal.
To: BillyBoy
It would also be difficult convincing those Christians that the bible alone is the sole source of authority, seeing as there was no "bible" yet. Nonsense. There was the OT Scripture.
They had that and that was enough for people to verify Paul's teachings with and for people to recognize who Jesus was.
165 posted on
05/19/2015 12:48:41 AM PDT by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: BillyBoy
Christianity was a brand new religion during the time of the Acts of the Apostles and almost all their knowledge of Jesus came from first hand accounts they heard from others.And every ONE of them thar 'others' were Catholics (to hear it told).
191 posted on
05/19/2015 5:52:55 AM PDT by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: BillyBoy
Christianity was a brand new religion...Started by JESUS hisself.
Therefore it should have been PERFECT in every way (so I've been told).
193 posted on
05/19/2015 5:53:45 AM PDT by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: BillyBoy
It would also be difficult convincing those Christians that the bible alone is the sole source of authority, seeing as there was no "bible" yet. True, and that may be WHY Jesus told Lazarus (the unfortunate one) that his brothers had Moses and the Prophets (all written down) to listen to.
Luke 16:31
194 posted on
05/19/2015 5:57:26 AM PDT by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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