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| 1: | The Interactive Bible: False Doctrine Home page
Sunday and not Saturday. For Jehovah's Witness New Converts Information every new Jehovah's Witness should know about his new religion. Evolution vs 6 day creation When God created the earth in 6 days He was taking His time! The Roman Catholic church examined Is the Roman Catholic church the original one true church? Mormonism Exposed Are the Book of Mormon and the golden Nephi plates from God or man? Calvinism refuted The famous 5 point T-U-L-I-P doctrinal system refuted by scripture! 20th Century Tongues exposed Are modern day tongue speakers guided by divinity or self-delusion? Neo-Sadduceeism A doctrine that takes all the supernatural out of the Bible! (Human saviour, souless man, heavenless hope, non-existent Holy Spirit) Rapture and Pre-millenialism A system that teaches our God couldn't make it happen the first time! Searching for New Testament Christianity Seek and you will find! Anti-Sola Scriptura Those who try to destroy the Bible Lies of the devil: Doctrine doesn't matter ... ... https://www.bible.ca/false.htm | Size: 12K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Interactive Bible Home Page www.bible.ca Anyone can understand what the Bible says. It is fun!!! The Bible is God's Inspired Book! Do you really believe the Bible is Inspired? Fundamental Bible Doctrines What the Bible teaches on doctrinal subjects Do you know what your church teaches: Official teachings of almost every church. Sin and Morality How God expects you to live to get to heaven. Early Christians Speak! Historical documentation of what early Christians believed Searching for New Testament Christianity Seek and you will find! Family Life Marriage, parenting, teens, dating, loneliness, low-self esteem etc. The Supernatural God, Holy Spirit, angels, demons, Deity of Christ, heaven, hell, soul, spirit How to Be Saved You need the blood of Christ! Here is how to apply it to your soul! Systems of False Doctrine: Do you know what your church teaches: Official teachings of almost every church. Sabbath Keepers Refuted An defense of why Christians worship on Sunday and not Saturday. For Jehovah's Witness New Converts ... ... https://www.bible.ca/bible.htm | Size: 15K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | What Early Christians believed about Hell & Eternal Punishment What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Hell & Eternal Punishment Click to View 150 AD Second Clement "If we do the will of Christ, we shall obtain rest; but if not, if we neglect his commandments, nothing will rescue us from eternal punishment" (Second Clement 5:5). 150 AD Second Clement "But when they see how those who have sinned and who have denied Jesus by their words or by their deeds are punished with terrible torture in unquenchable fire, the righteous, who have done good, and who have endured tortures and have hated the luxuries of life, will give glory to their God saying, 'There shall be hope for him that has served God with all his heart!'" (Second Clement , 17:7). 150 AD Justin Martyr: "No more is it possible for the evildoer, the avaricious, and the treacherous to hide from God than it is for the virtuous. Every man will receive the eternal punishment ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-hell.htm | Size: 16K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | What Early Christians believed about Mt 24 & destruction of Jerusalem ... What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Matthew 24 Fulfilled in 70AD Destruction of Jerusalem Click to View rapture-second-coming-end-of-world-end-times-last-days-tribulation-bible-chronology-chart.jpg 71+AD The Jewish Sibylline Oracles (On Jerusalem) But now a certain insignificant and impious king has gone up, cast it down, and left it in ruins with a great horde and illustrious men. He himself perished at immortal hands when he left the land, and no such sign has yet been performed among men that others should think to sack a great city" (5:408-413; OTP 1:403.) 71+AD The Jewish Sibylline Oracles (On Jerusalem) For murder and terrors are in store for all men because of the great city and righteous people which is preserved throughout everything which Providence held in special place. . (5:225-227; OTP 1:398.) 71+AD The Jewish Sibylline Oracles (On Jerusalem) He ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-Mt-24-destruction-jerusalem-70AD.htm | Size: 119K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | Interactive Bible Home Page www.bible.ca How to Be Saved You need the blood of Christ! Here is how to apply it to your soul! 2. The Bible is God's Inspired Book! Do you really believe the Bible is Inspired? 3. Interactive Bible study series lessons where you learn Bible truths while on line for yourself. Anyone can understand what the Bible says. It is fun!!! 4. Fundamental Bible Doctrines What the Bible teaches on doctrinal subjects 5. Do you know what your church teaches: Official teachings of almost every church. 6. Sin and Morality How God expects you to live to get to heaven. 7. Searching for New Testament Christianity Seek and you will find! 8. Family Life Marriage, parenting, teens, dating, loneliness, low-self esteem etc. 9. The Supernatural God, Holy Spirit, angels, demons, Deity of Christ, heaven, hell, soul, spirit 10. Expository Files: Bible book outlines. 11. Evangelism 12. Bible prophecy 13. Psychiatry, Mental illness, Anxiety and Depression 14. Commentary on the book of Revelation 15. Holy Spirit: Tongues have ... ... https://www.bible.ca/ | Size: 96K Depth: 0 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | What Early Christians believed about death being a separation ... What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Death being a separation of body and soul Nature of man Conscious life after death READ: Bible texts that confirm these truths Click to View Justin Martyr: The resurrection is a resurrection of the flesh which died. For the spirit dies not; the soul is in the body, and without a soul it cannot live. The body, when the soul forsakes it, is not. For the body is the house of the soul; and the soul the house of the spirit. These three, in all those who cherish a sincere hope and unquestioning faith in God, will be saved." (Justin Martyr, Chapter X.-The Body Saved, and Will Therefore Rise) 177 AD Athenagoras the Athenian, Chapter XVI-Analogy of Death and Sleep, and Consequent Argument for the Resurrection. And let no one think it strange that we call by the name of life a continuance of being which is interrupted by death and ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-nature-man-definition-death.htm | Size: 37K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | Early Christian faith on Trinity, deity of Christ, personality ... Earliest Christians taught Trinity! (50 - 600 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Trinity Deity and eternal pre-existence of Jesus Christ Person & Personality of the Holy Spirit Click to View Regarding the "US", in Gen 1:26 "Let us make man in our image": Click to View Regarding two Yahweh's in Gen 19:24, "Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven." 50 AD The Huleatt Manuscript 50 AD The Huleatt Manuscript "She poured it [the perfume] over his [Jesus'] hair when he sat at the table. But, when the disciples saw it, they were indignant. . . . God, aware of this, said to them: 'Why do you trouble this woman? She has done [a beautiful thing for me.] . . . Then one of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priest and said, 'What will you give me for my work?' [Matt. 26:7-15]" (Huleatt fragments 1-3). 74 AD The Letter of Barnabas 74 AD The Letter of Barnabas ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-trinity.htm | Size: 122K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | What Early Christians believed about THE LORD'S SUPPER What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 300 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View The Lord's Supper (communion or breaking bread) Click to View What day early Christians partake of the Lord's Supper? How often did early Christians partake of the Lord's Supper? Click to View 90AD DIDACHE: "Christian Assembly on the Lord's Day: 1. But every Lord's day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. 2. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. 3. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; for I am a great King, saith the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations." (Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Chapter XIV) Click to View Go Back to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-Lords-Supper.htm | Size: 2K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | What Early Christians believed about SALVATION BY FAITH ONLY What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 300 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Salvation by Faith Alone? 30-100 AD Clement of Rome, who was a, wrote, "It is necessary, therefore, that we be prompt in the practice of good works. For He forewarns us, 'Behold, the Lord comes and His reward is before His face, to render to every man according to his work.' ... Let us therefore earnestly strive to be found in the number of those who wait for Him, in order that we may share in His promised reward. But how, beloved ones, shall we do this? By fixing our thoughts on God by faith. By earnestly seeking the things that are pleasing and acceptable to Him. By doing the things that are in harmony with His blameless will. And by following the way of truth, casting away from us all unrighteousness and sin." (Clement of Rome Letter to the Corinthians chaps. 34, 35 [companion of the apostle Paul and overseer of the church in Rome]) ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-Faith-Only.htm | Size: 7K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | What Early Christians believed about DISCIPLESHIP What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 300 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Discipleship, Self Denial, Carrying Cross Click to View 140-230 AD Tertullian, encouraged a group of local Christians who were languishing in a Roman dungeon with these words, "Blessed ones, count whatever is hard in this lot of yours as a discipline of your powers of mind and body. You are about to pass through a noble struggle, in which the living God is your manager and the Holy Spirit is your trainer. The prize is an eternal crown of angelic essence-citizenship in the heavens, glory everlasting." He also told them, "The prison does the same service for the Christian that the desert did for the prophet. Our Lord himself spent much time in seclusion so he would have greater freedom to pray and so he would be away from the world.... The leg does not feel the chains when the mind is in heaven." (Tertullian To the Martyrs chaps. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-Carry-Cross.htm | Size: 4K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | What Early Christians believed about ABORTION What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Abortion-Not A 20th Century Phenomenon Click to View Click to View Read the story about the baby holding the surgeons finger from within the womb during fetal operation. 74 AD The Letter of Barnabas "The way of light, then, is as follows. If any one desires to travel to the appointed place, he must be zealous in his works. The knowledge, therefore, which is given to us for the purpose of walking in this way, is the following. . . . Thou shalt not slay the child by procuring abortion; nor, again, shalt thou destroy it after it is born" (Letter of Barnabas 19). 137 AD The Apocalypse of Peter "And near that place I saw another strait place . . . and there sat women . . . And over against them many children who were born to them out of due time sat crying. And there came forth from them rays of fire and smote the women in the eyes. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-Abortion.htm | Size: 15K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | What Early Christians believed about EVOLUTION What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 300 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Six (24 hour) day creation VS. Evolution Young earth creationists! Click to View Click to View 170-215 AD Mark Felix "Some men deny the existence of any Divine power. Others inquire daily as to whether or not one exists. Still others would construct the whole fabric of the universe by chance accidents and by random collision, fashioning it by the movement of atoms of different shapes." (M. Felix Octavius chap. 30 [Notice the term "atom" isn't a twentieth century invention, but a term coined by Greek philosophers.]) 181 AD Theophilus of Antioch "On the fourth day the luminaries came into existence. Since God has foreknowledge, he understood the nonsense of the foolish philosophers who were going to say that the things produced on earth come from the stars, so that they might set God aside. In order therefore that the truth might ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-Darwin.htm | Size: 7K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | What Early Christians believed about HUMAN FREEWILL What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 300 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Free Will and Obedience 110-165AD Justin Martyr "We have learned from the prophets, and we hold it to be true, that punishments, chastisements, and rewards are rendered according to the merit of each man's actions. Otherwise, if all things happen by fate, then nothing is in our own power. For if it be predestined that one man be good and another man evil, then the first is not deserving of praise or the other to be blamed. Unless humans have the power of avoiding evil and choosing good by free choice, they are not accountable for their actions-whatever they may be.... For neither would a man be worthy of reward or praise if he did not of himself choose the good, but was merely created for that end. Likewise, if a man were evil, he would not deserve punishment, since he was not evil of himself, being unable to do anything else than what he ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-Freewill.htm | Size: 4K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | What Early Christians believed about TELEVISION Carefully sensor what television you and your children watch! Did early Christians have TELEVISION too? Sure sounds like it! Immorality, Sex and violence! 260-330 AD Lactantius "I am inclined to think that the corrupting influence of the stage is even worse [than that of the arena]. The subjects of comedies are the deflowering of virgins or the loves of prostitutes.... Similarly, the tragedies parade before the eyes [of the audience] the murder of parents and acts of incest committed by wicked kings.... Is the art of the mimes any better? They teach adultery by acting it out. How do we expect our young people to respond when they see that these things are practiced without shame and that everyone eagerly watches." (Lactantius Institutes bk. 6, chap. 20, paraphrased) 140-230 AD Tertullian "The father who carefully protects and guards his virgin daughter's ears from every polluting word takes her to the theater himself, exposing her to all its vile language and attitudes." He asked ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-R-Rated.htm | Size: 3K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | What Early Christians believed about SALVATION BY WORKS What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 300 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Salvation By Works? 30-100 AD Clement of Rome "[We] are not justified by ourselves. Nor by our own wisdom, understanding, godliness, or works done in holiness of heart. But by that faith through which Almighty God has justified all men since the beginning." (Clement of Rome Corinthians chap. 32) 69-156 AD Polycarp "Many desire to enter into this joy, knowing that 'by grace you are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ [Eph. 2:8]." (Polycarp Philippians chap. 1) 125 AD Barnabas "To this end the Lord delivered up His flesh to corruption, that we might be sanctified through the remission of sins, which is effected by His blood." (Barnabas Letter chap 5) 110-165AD Justin Martyr "Our suffering and crucified Christ was not cursed by the law. Rather, he made it manifest that He alone would save those who do not depart ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-Works.htm | Size: 8K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | What Early Christians believed about BAPTISM What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Water Baptism Essential to Salvation Water Baptism in name of Father Son & Holy Spirit Click to View Water Baptism Essential to Salvation 110-165 AD Martyr "As many as are persuaded and believe that what we teach and say is true, and undertake to be able to live accordingly, are instructed to pray and to entreat God with fasting, for the remission of their sins that are past, we praying and fasting with them. Then they are brought by us where there is water, and are regenerated in the same manner in which we were ourselves regenerated. For, in the name of God, the Father and Lord of the universe, and of our Savior Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, they then receive the washing with water. For Christ also said, 'Except ye be born again, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.' Now, that it is impossible for those who ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-baptism.htm | Size: 61K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | What Early Christians believed about ETERNAL SECURITY What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 300 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Can A blood bought Christian be lost? 120-205 AD Irenaeus "Christ will not die again on behalf of those who now commit sin because death shall no more have dominion over Him.... Therefore we should not be puffed up.... But we should beware lest somehow, after [we have come to] the knowledge of Christ, if we do things displeasing to God, we obtain no further forgiveness of sins but rather be shut out from His kingdom" (Heb. 6:4-6). (Irenaeus, pupil of Polycarp, Against Heresies bk. 4, chap. 27, sec. 2) 140-230 AD Tertullian "Some people act as though God were under an obligation to bestow even on the unworthy His intended gift. They turn His liberality into slavery.... For do not many afterwards fall out of grace? Is not this gift taken away from many?" (Tertullian On Repentance chap. 6.) 200-258 AD Cyprian "It is written, 'He who endures to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-fallaway.htm | Size: 2K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | What Early Christians believed about Hades: where conscious dead ... What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Hades, the temporary two part receptacle of the conscious dead who are awaiting judgment (Luke 16:19-31) Click to View Irenaeus Book II Chapter XXXIV.-Souls Can Be Recognised in the Separate State, and are Immortal Although They Once Had a Beginning. 1. The Lord has taught with very great fulness, that souls not only continue to exist, not by passing from body to body, but that they preserve the same form [in their separate state] as the body had to which they were adapted, and that they remember the deeds which they did in this state of existence, and from which they have now ceased,-in that narrative which is recorded respecting the rich man and that Lazarus who found repose in the bosom of Abraham. In this account He states that Dives knew Lazarus after death, and Abraham in like manner, and that each one of these persons ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-hades.htm | Size: 22K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | What Early Christians believed about USING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Using instrumental music in worship??? See also: instrumental music banned in first century Jewish synagogues. Citations in alphabetic order: AQUINAS "Whether God Should Be Praised with Song [alone]?: Objection 4. Further, In the Old Law God was praised with musical instruments and human song, according to Ps. 32:2, 3: Give praise to the Lord on the harp, sing to Him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings. Sing to Him a new canticle. But the Church (Roman Catholic) does not make use of musical instruments, such as harps and psalteries, in the divine praises, for fear of seeming to imitate the Jews. Therefore in like manner neither should song be used in the divine praises." (The "summa theologica" of st. Thomas Aquinas, STh., II-II q.91 a.2 obj. 4, Note Aquinas lived in 1225-1274 AD and even though this is 100 years after the great schism of 1054 AD over the introduction of instrumental music by the Roman Catholics, Aquinas was opposed too it. Notice he is siting objections ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-music.htm | Size: 55K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | What Early Christians believed about PROPHETS OUTSIDE THE APOSTOLIC ... What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 300 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Prophets outside the Apostolic Age Click to View What Do The Early Church Fathers Say Regarding Prophets In Their Day? 160AD Clement of Alexandria (On the end of Apostolic revelation) "Mystagogues of the souls of the impious. " "They do not make a right but a perverse use of the divine words. " ... "For the teaching of our Lord at His advent, beginning with Augustus and Tiberius, was completed in the middle of the times of Tiberius. And that of the apostles, embracing the ministry of Paul, end with Nero." (Miscellanies 7:17.) In examining every work of the Early Church Fathers, all 37 volumes, there is not one reference to the continuing of the true prophetic office. The early church after the death of the apostle John ceased to acknowledge the office of apostle and prophet being in existence. However, in 26 of the 37 volumes ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-prophets.htm | Size: 28K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | What Early Christians believed about deviant sex What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View What Christians believed about deviant sex! Click to View 151 AD Justin Martyr "[W]e have been taught that to expose newly-born children is the part of wicked men; and this we have been taught lest we should do anyone harm and lest we should sin against God, first, because we see that almost all so exposed (not only the girls, but also the males) are brought up to prostitution. And for this pollution a multitude of females and hermaphrodites, and those who commit unmentionable iniquities, are found in every nation. And you receive the hire of these, and duty and taxes from them, whom you ought to exterminate from your realm. And any one who uses such persons, besides the godless and infamous and impure intercourse, may possibly be having intercourse with his own child, or relative, or brother. And there are some who prostitute ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-deviant-sex.htm | Size: 17K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | What Early Christians believed about Revelation being fulfilled ... What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View The prophecies of Revelation are fulfilled Click to View 71+AD The Jewish Sibylline Oracles (On Nero, The Beast) "Then Beliar will come from the Sebastinoi [i.e., the line of Augustus] and he will raise up the height of mountains, he will raise up the sea, the great fiery sun and shining moon, and he will raise up the dead. . . . But he will, indeed, also lead men astray, and he will lead astray many faithful, chosen Hebrews, and also other lawless men who have not yet listened to the word of God. (Sibylline Oracles 3:63-70; OTP 1:363.) 71+AD The Jewish Sibylline Oracles (On Nero, The Beast) "One who has fifty as an initial will be commander, a terrible snake, breathing out grievous war, who one day will lay hands on his own family and slay them, and throw every-thing into confusion, athlete, charioteer, murderer, one who dares ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-revelation-fulfilled.htm | Size: 7K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | What Early Christians believed about Reincarnation, New Age What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View See also Reincarnation is not taught in the Bible! Click to View See also: Major outline: A Christian Analysis of Reincarnation in Contemporary American Society. Click to View Reincarnation, New Age Click to View 189AD Irenaeus of Lyons "We may undermine [the Hellenists'] doctrine as to transmigration from body to body by this fact--that souls remember nothing whatever of the events which took place in their previous states of existence. For if they were sent forth with this object, that they should have experience of every kind of action, they must of necessity retain a remembrance of those things which have been previously accomplished, that they might fill up those in which they were still deficient, and not by always hovering, without intermission, rough the same pursuits, spend their labor wretchedly in vain. . . . With ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-reincarnation.htm | Size: 12K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | What Early Christians believed about Occult, spiritism & astrology What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Occult, spiritism & astrology Click to View 170 AD Tatian the Syrian "[Under the influence of demons] men form the material of their apostasy. For, having shown them a plan of the position of the stars, like dice-players, they introduce Fate, a flagrant injustice. For the judge and the judged are made so by Fate, the murderers and the murdered, the wealthy and the needy--[all are] the offspring of the same Fate" (Address to the Greeks 8) 170 AD Tatian the Syrian "Such are the demons; these are they who laid down the doctrine of Fate. Their fundamental principle was the placing of animals in the heavens [as constellations] . . . these they dignified with celestial honor, in order that they might themselves be thought to remain in heaven and, by placing the constellations there, might make to appear rational the irrational course ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-occult-spiritism.htm | Size: 11K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | What Early Christians believed about false prophets mentioned ... What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 300 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Specific False prophets mentioned in New Testament: Simon of Acts 8 Theudas of Acts 5 Egyptian of Acts 21 Click to View 325AD Eusebius (Regarding Simon, See Acts 8) "After the Lord was taken up into heaven the demons put forth a number of men who claimed to be gods. These not only escape being persecuted by you, but were actually the objects of worship - for example Simon, a Samaritan from the village called Gittho, who in Claudius Caesar's time, thanks to the art of the demons who possessed him, worked wonders of magic, and in your imperial city of Rome was regarded as a god, and like a god was honoured by you with a statue in the River Tiber between the two bridges. It bears this inscription in Latin, SIMONI DEO SANCTO. Almost all Samaritans, and a few from other nations too, ackowledge him as their principle god, and worship ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-NT-false-prophets.htm | Size: 5K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | What Early Christians believed about Marriage, Divorce & Remarriage What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Marriage, Divorce & Remarriage (MDR) Click to View 151 AD Justin Martyr "In regard to chastity, [Jesus] has-this to say: 'If anyone look with lust at a woman, he has already before God committed adultery in his heart.' And, 'Whoever marries a woman who has been divorced from another husband, commits adultery.' According to our Teacher, just as they are sinners who contract a second marriage, even though it be in accord with human law, so also are they sinners who look with lustful desire at a woman. He repudiates not only one who actually commits adultery, but even one who wishes to do so; for not only our actions are manifest to God, but even our thoughts" (First Apology 15). 208 AD Clement of Alexandria "That Scripture counsels marriage, however, and never allows any release from the union, is expressly contained in the law: ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-divorce-remarriage.htm | Size: 4K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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