[dp0622]

Very interesting. First time I’ve heard of them.

300 years is actually pretty fast to spread 3000 miles with no modern communication.

Not just spread but take hold.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[xp38]

Matthew 28:18-20 “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

[Fiji Hill]

The eighth chapter of Acts describes the conversion of the treasurer of Ethiopia. However, this “Ethiopia” is most likely Kush, a kingdom in what is now northern Sudan.

[A strike]

The author of course is referring to A.D. without being intelligent enough to know it.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Radiocarbon dating has always been something of a puzzle to me. I am skeptical about it. The same goes for many assumptions and assertions made by archaeologists. Messy business.

My question about radiocarbon dating is whether it targets the age of the substance, or the age of its form. The substance is atoms and molecules, any of which ultimately have their origins when time began, i.e. when matter was created. How can radio carbon dating accurately refect when human, or other, intervention, rearranges matter?

[Psalm 73]

I guess Phillip would be the first recorded contact between early Christians and Ethiopians when he explained Isaiah to the Ethiopian eunuch and baptized him by the roadside.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Aksum, the capital of the Aksumite kingdom, a trading empire that emerged in the first century A.D. and would go on to dominate much of eastern Africa and western Arabia.... The kingdom began its decline in the eighth and ninth centuries, eventually contracting to control only the Ethiopian highlands. Yet it remained defiantly Christian even as Islam spread across the region."

Isn't it interesting how Northern Africa and the Middle East was the cradle of civilization, until.....

[Grampa Dave]

My wife’s Bible study class has been studying the growth of the church during this time.

I sent her this link.

Thanks