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Origin of Synagogues: 10 Reasons why Synagogues began in Alexandria ... of the Septuagint was the engine that spawned the birth of Synagogues as a part of God's eternal plan to create a bridge between temple worship and the Christian Church. ... to offer support for that theory. 3. Synagogues began in Alexandria Egypt in 280 BC: a. "As early as 1971 M. Hengel argued for a Hellenistic Egyptian origin of the synagogue. ... community." (The Cambridge History of Judaism: The early Roman period, Volume 3, p1028, 1999 AD) c. The Hebrew temple at Elephantine was a one of a kind location on the southern border of Egypt with Nubia on the island of Elephantine at the third cataract of the Nile. ... intended for religious and communal purposes was in the Diaspora during the third century B.C.E. Such buildings are documented in Egypt for the third and subsequent centuries. ... This made the Jerusalem temple "out of touch" with the people and drove them to synagogue worship, conducted in Hebrew, for their spiritual needs. This is like the Roman Catholic ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Origin-of-ancient-Synagogues-first-century-originated-at-Alexandria-Egypt-began-spawned-by-Greek-Septuagint-translation-Tanakh-Babylonian-captivity-Nehemiah-280BC.htm

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What makes an apostle The Gift of the Holy Spirit There was no kind of miracle that apostles could do that non-apostles couldn't 2. Both apostles & non-apostles received promised comforter of Jn 14:16,26; 15:26-27; 16:13 a. James,Jude & Luke were "guided into all truth" "brought to ... historians and theologians of the early church unanimously maintained that tongues ceased to exist after the time of the apostles. The only exception of which we know was within the movement led by Montanus, a second century heretic who believed that divine revelation continued through him beyond the New Testament. Apparently no other tongues-speaking was practiced in Christianity until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when it appeared in several Roman Catholic groups in Europe (Cevenols and ... Then, around the turn of the twentieth century, tongues became a major emphasis within the holiness movement, a large section of which developed into modern Pentecostalism. The charismatic movement, which began in 1960, carried the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/holyspirit/Holy-Spirit-Qualifications-of-an-apostle.htm

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Catholic Encyclopedia's and Dictionaries ... In many places of the OT, however, expressions are used in which some of the Fathers of the Church saw references or foreshadowings of the Trinity. The personified use of such terms as the *Word of God [Ps 32(33).6] and ... "It is difficult, in the second half of the 20th century, to offer a clear, objective, and straightforward account of the revelation, doctrinal evolution, and theological elaboration of the mystery of the Trinity. Trinitarian discussion, Roman Catholic as well as other, presents a somewhat unsteady silhouette. Two things have ... On the one hand, it was the dogmatic formula "one God in three Persons" that would henceforth for more than 15 centuries structure and guide the Trinitarian essence of the Christian message, both in the profession of ... Before the 2d century had run its course, however, this question, and with it the Trinitarian problem, began to take form. It happened quite naturally. With the Apostolic Fathers, Ignatius certainly, the center of gravity ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Catholic.htm

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Christianity Wasn't Influenced by Pagan Religions! and Christianity, the mystery religions were the most influential religions in the early centuries after Christ. The reason these cults were called "mystery religions" is that they involved secret ceremonies known only to those initiated into the cult. The major benefit of these practices was thought to be some kind of salvation. ... Finally, Persia (Iran) was a leading early locale for the cult of Mithras, which -- due to its frequent use of the imagery of war -- held a special appeal to Roman ... or synthesis developed after A.D. 300, each of the mystery cults was a separate and distinct religion during the century that saw the birth of the Christian church. ... After A.D. 100, they gradually began to attain a widespread popular influence throughout the Roman Empire. But they also underwent significant changes that often ... Of all the mystery cults, only Mithraism had anything that resembled the Lord's Supper. A piece of bread and a cup of water were placed before initiates while the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan-christianity.htm

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What Early Christians believed about USING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ... SCHAFF "It is questionable whether, as used in the New Testament, 'psallo' means more than to sing . . . The absence of instrumental music from the church for some centuries after the apostles and the sentiment regarding it which pervades the ... TAPPER "Both sexes joined in singing, but instruments of every kind were prohibited for along time" (Thomas Tapper, Essentials of Music History, p. 34) THEODORET "107. Question: If songs were invented by unbelievers to seduce men, but were ... They were dropped out with such emphasis that they were not taken up till the middle of the Dark Ages, and came in as part of the order of the Roman Catholic Church. It seems there cannot be doubt but that the use of instrumental music in connection with the ... WEST "Apostasy in music among 19th century churches that had endeavored to restore New Testament authority in worship and work began, in the main, following the Civil War' In 1868, Ben Franklin guessed that there were ten thousand congregations ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-music.htm

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Messianic Re-enactment Rituals of Communion, Lord's Supper ... D R. Eliezer says, "Also: Women's makeup." E This is the general principle: Whatever is made of any kind of grain, lo, this is removed on Passover. F Lo, these matters are subject to a prohibition. G But ... a. "On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight." (Acts 20:7) 5. Assembly "Sharing together" 1 Cor 10:16-17; 11:20-22 a. "Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break ... What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you." (1 ... Exactly 500 years later in AD 757 sprinkling was approved by Rome in cases of necessity. Finally, in AD 1311 the Roman Catholic church was official born when sprinkling replaced full immersion in all cases. The ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/Communion-Lords-supper-Midrashic-messianic-Bible-prophecy-type-antitype-metophors-reenactiment-rituals-Passover-Manna-table-Shewbread.htm

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Anglo/British-Israelism: A DETAILED REFUTATION ... by reams of papers on centuries and millenniums of history. The Bible Teaches: But no sooner do they use that expression than they cant about "scriptural intimations," and "strong historical proof." These two expressions occur repeatedly in their writings and addresses-"scriptural intimations" and "strong historical proof." How much must the Bible "intimate" a thing to teach it? And how "strong" must the "proof" of a thing be to prove it? The Roman Catholic church claims that the "Bible and ... There is no foundation for British-Israelism in Acts 2 or in Acts 10, where the gospel began to be preached to the Jews and where it began to be preached to the Gentiles. The Anglo-Israelists are making a distinction without a difference. They ... But Paul called Israel his nation-Acts 28:17-20. 5. Paul was a fleshly Jew "by nature"-Gal. 2:15. But Paul was the same kind of an Israelite-2 Cor. 11:22. In Radio Address, Aug. 28, 1943, Dr. John Matthews said that Paul was a Jew only in a ... ... https://www.bible.ca/pre-british-israelism-foy-wallace.htm

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Bible Prophecy Fulfilled ... Taken by themselves, there is no indication they were prophetic in any way. These texts can be used as a proof of God's foreknowledge by causing two historical events centuries apart to mirror one ... False teachers had spoken when God was silent and began demanding circumcision as a requirement of salvation. The use of command, example and inference restored that silence. Notice that in the ... The Roman Catholic church introduced instrumental music in AD 790 in one church, which let to the churches severing into two different communions of fellowship in AD 1054. All the great church reformers opposed instrumental music in worship and no protestant church used instrumental music before AD 1750. Today's ultra-liberalism in the Christian church looks at churches who teach instrumental music ... This kind of Midrashic interpretation by Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit illustrates the hermeneutic of the Apostolic church and the general Jewish mindset of the day. Christians ... ... https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/welcome.htm

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Sabbath and Sunday in Early Christianity: Dr. David W. T. Brattston ... In the 240s, Origen appeared to have been of the conviction that Sunday is a kind of Sabbath. Homilies on Numbers 23.4 favors observing a day of rest-or more precisely, a day of abstinence from worldly activities and temporal ... Because these resources were not available until to them, such statements have been superseded by those in the late twentieth or twenty-first centuries, such as those which this pamphlet uses. Sabbatarian authors rely heavily on Roman ... There are three fallacies in the Sabbatarian reliance on such Roman Catholic literature. First, it assumes that the Roman Church has always been incorrect in every detail; whatever Rome does is automatically bad. A more reasonable sentiment is that religious truth is not an indivisible ... The New Testament envisions congregations being led by more than one official, synonymously termed "bishops", "elders" or "presbyters". It was not until the beginning of the second century that one of them began to be set apart, and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/H-sunday-sabbath-and-sunday-in-early-christianity-before-400AD-DavidW.T.Brattston.htm

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Is the Catholic church an infallible interpreter of scripture ... Click to View We Speak truth in LOVE tell us if we have misrepresented Catholic Faith Click to View "The Roman Catholic Church itself is the God designated guardian of Christianity on earth and ... "How can you get the true meaning of the Bible? You can get it only from God's official interpreter, the Catholic Church. 'This, then, you must understand first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is ... We call your attention to the fact that they want you to make a private interpretation of the above verse. What kind of rule is it that says we can make a private interpretation of a verse which ... When churches began to be established as result of the preaching of God's Word and when the New Testament Scriptures began to be written, never in one instance did the apostles and prophets declare ... In like manner, the Catholic Church was the custodian of the inspired writings of the New Testament Gospel nearly four centuries before these writings were collected into a single book and formally ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-bible-church-interpreter.htm

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Debate with Catholic on Sola Scriptura (Riggs Vs Lopez) ... There was a period when the word of God was given both orally and written. The apostles and prophets began delivering God's will both by preaching and writing. Paul said to the Thessalonians, ... The holy Scriptures claim for themselves that they alone are the standard of authority in Religion today. They do not authorize other standards of authority. Michael Lopez, Catholic, first ... went into error on doctrinal matters, then Paul made a mistake in calling the church the pillar and bulwark of truth. Notice, it does not say pillar of truth only as long as it teaches scripture. The only way that we know who wrote the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and that Paul and Peter were the authors of the other New Testament books is oral tradition; passed on down through the centuries. ... assumption that the Council of Hippo in 390 was a Council of the church which is now the Roman Catholic Church. (4) God did not give councils the authority to select His sacred books, nor ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-debate-riggs-lopez.htm

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Gifts ceased: Encyclopedia of Pentecostal objections and their ... ... Thus, when the revelation became "perfect" (teleion-1 Cor 13:10), the body of Christ also became "full-grown" because Christians were protected from doctrinal "error" (Eph. 4:14) and were able to speak "the truth" (v. ... If this view is correct, then the NT would or should contain many more books, especially books from other centuries, besides the First Century. (Like the O.T. books were written from the beginning of prophetic activity, ... At least it is unrealistic to see Paul as knowing whether or not the Scriptures were complete. Pentecostals who argue this fail to realize that this is exactly the same argument that Roman Catholics use to sustain their view that there was no fixed canon until the 5th century, when the Catholic church graciously gave the world, for ... This question is rooted in denominational thinking, foreign to the Bible and brings to mind all kinds of questions like apostolic succession and the clergy/laity distinction found in most denominations. Ordination is ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-ceased-pentecostal-arguments-refuted.htm

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Encyclopædia Britannica ... Initially, both the requirements of monotheism inherited from the Old Testament and the implications of the need to interpret the biblical teaching to Greco-Roman ... Licinius surrendered and in 325 he was executed for an alleged attempt at revolt. Soon after his victory Constantine began to rebuild Byzantium on a magnificent ... charges of doctrinal error or uncanonical conduct. Their chief victim was Athanasius, who became bishop of Alexandria in 328 (see ATHANASIUS, SAINT). At first Constantine supported him, acquitting him of several charges, but he eventually lost patience. The emperor's cherished aim was to reconcile Arius with the church, but ... It also provided the strongest impetus for a speculative theology-an impetus that inspired Western metaphysics throughout the centuries. In the first two centuries a ... Both schools had a wide sphere of influence, not only among the contemporary clergy but also in monasticism and among the laity Characteristically, Neaorianism (a ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Britannica.htm

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Harnack, Adolf: Outlines of the History of Dogma ... Through the acceptance of the Logos- Christology as the central dogma of the Church, the Church doctrine was, even for the laity, firmly rooted in the soil of Hellenism. Thereby it became a ... he even employed philosophic doctrines of the Greeks as presuppositions in his apologetic, ' and therewith prepared the way for the introduction of the Gospel to the Greco-Roman world of thought. ... Father George Tyrell, 'The Christ that what Harnack sees, looking back through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness, is only the reflection of a Liberal Protestant face, seen at the bottom of a deep ... Swete, H.B., The Apostles' Creed: It's Relation to Primitive Christianity, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1894, p. 12 Harnack not only was liberal in his views on Church history and the Trinity but also ... This process began not only in the fourth and fifth-century councils, but already in the apostolic fathers, and that means in the generation which is contemporaneous with the latest biblical ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Harnack.htm

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Acapella Responsive Singing, No Instruments in first century ... hear". 4. The first time instruments were brought into church worship was in 670 AD in Rome and it was the direct cause of the great split of 1054 AD between the Roman Catholic church and the Orthodox. a. ... nuts and legalists, when in fact it is they who are worshipping EXACTLY like the first century church. 5. The Churches of Christ follow the Bible pattern and also practice full immersion, ban all ... When the burnt offering began, the song to the Lord also began with the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David, king of Israel. While the whole assembly worshiped, the singers also sang ... Seven men would arrive at Jerusalem with 7 identical copies and the Saints there would follow them back to their 7 Asian churches for security far away from Jerusalem. A kind of crossing the Red ... of the Roman colosseum, continued for several centuries (Werner IDB 3: 469). (ABD, Music, Volume 4, Page 934) 5. "The background antecedent of early Christian worship was Jewish synagogue worship. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Acapella-responsive-singing-non-instrumental-first-century-early-Christian-Church-New-Testament-worship-prototype-ancient-Synagogue-ritual-liturgy-worship.htm

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Coins of the Maccabean Hasmonean Era 166-37 BC. Messianic Star ... Babylon: 623 - 539 BC Persia: 539 - 333 BC Greece: 333 - 31 BC Rome: 31 BC - 476 AD Church (Pentecost 33 AD) Alexander the Great conquers the world in a stunning and ... in between the rays of the star enhancing his messianic connection. "Of King Alexander" is on the flip side, implying that Jannaeus himself was the messiah. ... that at some point the royal mint issued for political reasons these double-titled coins and after a very short time refrained from further issues of that kind." ... Aristobulus III briefly appointed High Priest: 37 BC Herod executes Hycranus II after inviting him to Jerusalem: 30 BC Judah under Roman control when Herod kills last ... And after Alexander had reigned twelve years, he died. Then his officers began to rule, each in his own place. They all put on crowns after his death, and so did ... In the meantime the cup-bearer was sent [back], and laid a plot how to seize upon Herod, by deluding him, and getting him out of the city, as he was commanded to do. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/coins/Jesus-coins-of-the-bible-Maccabean-Hasmonean-166-37BC.htm

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THE PIRATES OF PRIVILEGE: Walter Rea Rocks the Seventh-day Adventist ... ... It is an incredible story, even for a people who had just been caught with its prophet lying about her gifts and her material.3 It ranks in size with the Catholic Church financial ... Where did these men of the vow of poverty for themselves and their church get this kind of money? Were they using church funds or their own personal use and then repaying it after ... During the years following, in numerous treasurers' councils, trust services advisory meetings, the treasury insisted that church organizations follow established guidelines. Unfortunately, although at least one union began withdrawing its investments, many others simply ... Finally, Jack, this would tie in with my thoughts on our laity and our young men being informed as to open Committee Meetings. If these Committee Meetings were held once a quarter ... The bottom line, of course, is the role of Ellen White in doctrinal matters. 16 It was clear from the meeting that there was to be no honest inquiry into Adventist belief or ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-pirates-of-privilege.htm

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King Jeroboam tel dan high place altar 1340-723 BC. They're Digging ... ... In the 8th and 7th centuries B.C., perhaps after the Assyrian conquest, there was extensive rebuilding, and walls and structures were erected. The cult tradition was not forgotten in the following centuries, or even as late ... The LXX text adds three new details lacking in the Masoretic manuscript: that Rehoboam "sixteen years old when he began to reign" (24a), the name of Jeroboam's mother was "Sarisa, a prostitute" (24b) and " Shishak gave ... Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, even he may become a priest of what are no gods." (2 Chronicles 13:9) King Henry 8th banished all the Roman Catholic priests from England in 1536 AD and set up his own priesthood known at the Anglican church. Jeroboam set up two new centers of worship ... platform was used, that there were altars, incense offerings, votive offerings involving figurines, and some kind of water purification or libation rituals." (The Remarkable Discoveries at Tel Dan, John C. H. Laughlin, BAR ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-tel-dan-laish-leshem-micah-Jonathan-jeroboams-king-of-israel-high-place-altar-temple-1340-723bc.htm

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bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra-rami-g-khouri-petra ... ... This created the kind of intermittent instability that paved the way for a new group of people to stake a claim to the land and make of themselves a new regional ... determine the fate of the area for many centuries: the Roman General Pompey captured Damascus in 64 BC, and reorganised the area into the new Roman Province of Syria. ... The Roman writer Strabo, writing in the early 1st century AD about events around the end of the 1st century BC, left a detailed account of Nabataean culture at that ... The king holds many drinking-bouts in magnificent style, but no one drinks more than eleven cupfuls, each time using a different golden cup. The king is so democratic ... On 22 March 106 the Nabataean Kingdom came to an end, and the era of Roman control began. The Romans reorganised the area of Jordan-Syria by establishing a new ... as the many inscribed crosses and the transformation of the Urn Tomb into a church some time before 447. The historical references to bishops from Petra show that ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra-rami-g-khouri-petra-a-guide-to-the-capital-of-the-nabataeans-1986ad.htm

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Jehovah's Witnesses, Anti-semitism and the Third Reich ... Witnesses were the "true Israel of God," but it seems that he had other reasons for making such a dramatic doctrinal switch without any more detailed explanation. ... by registered mail to German officials, the Prussian Land or state banned them, and the police began to carry out widespread raids on their homes and places of business. ... is a rather damning remark. She says: "The document is a master of its kind and worthy of the other four sects [the Christian Scientists, the Latter-day Saints, the Seventh-day Adventists and members of the New Apostolic Church] all of whom supported, in one way or another, the Nazi state." [18] In another ... Despite such statements by Dr. King, however, the June 8, 1985 Awake! (p. 10) damned both the Catholic and the Protestant clergy for supporting Nazism and proclaimed: ... terms for having supported various European secular governments in past centuries and, especially, for having been in league with Nazism during the Second World War. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/jw-penton-3rdreich.htm

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Comparison list of 75 Joseph/Christ Shadows, Types, Antitypes ... ... Gen 40:8; 41:38 Lk 4:18 35. Sentenced with 2 criminals, one saved, one lost Gen 40:1-3 Lk 23:32-33 36. Cup bearer release from prison after 3 days: jail/grave Gen 40:13 1 Cor 15:3-4 37. The ... Gen 50:21 Jn 20:19 73. After Joseph/Christ became king both began summing up of all things, making pharaoh/God all in all. Gen 47:13-20 Eph 1:10; Col 1:17-20; 1 Cor 15:27-28 74. Hebrews under ... Rather the book of the Tanach is a part of the Prophets, the second section of Jewish scriptures, and was forged by the church many centuries later. The first century Roman historian Josephus Flavius, similarly states that ... In essence, the present Septuagint is largely a post-second century Christian translation of the Bible, used zealously by the Church throughout its history as an indispensable apologetic ... and historical errors”, that the Tanakh has 10 times MORE of exactly the same kind of “contradictions and historical errors”. 3. Rabbis who lead these attacks are either ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/d-bible-archeology-maps-timeline-chronology-Joseph-types-Christ-Shadows-Antitypes-similarities-comparisons-2166-1876BC.htm

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Origin of Ancient synagogues: Architectural prototype of the ... ... In essence, the present Septuagint is largely a post-second century Christian translation of the Bible [SR: totally false], used zealously by the Church throughout ... The unanimous Jewish approval of the LXX during the first four centuries of its existence can only be explained if it was a generally accurate translation of the Hebrew text in circulation during that time. What happened in the second century? The Palestinian Jews suddenly began repudiating the original translation of the Greek OT ... must have been common in antiquity since it is attested in the apostolic age. This translator was a gentile by birth and came from Sinope, a Roman colony in Pontus. ... Acts 20:7; 1 Cor 16:2 Government Levitical High priest Sole top authority (like Catholic Pope) Democracy: Body of equal rulers (Mark 5:22, 35-36, 38; Luke 8:41, ... Physical "no go zones" for common Jews in building Yes No Not until the 4th century when the clergy/laity distinction was invented. Who can access the Torah inside ... ... https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/welcome.htm

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Catholic Doctrinal flip flops: Marriage to non-Catholics was ... Roman Catholic Doctrinal evolution: Doctrinal flip flops Marriage to non-Catholics was invalid until 1818 AD Click to View Doctrinal flip flops Click to View More Catholic doctrinal Flip-Flops Marriage to non-Catholics was invalid until 1818 AD Marriage to non-Catholics was invalid until 1818 AD: "Under the old canon law, such a Marriage (between a baptized Protestant and an infidel or unbaptized Protestant) was invalid, because of the impediment of disparity of worship. Under the new canon law - i.e., since May 19, 1818 - this impediment has been abolished so far as non-Catholics are concerned, and such a marriage would be valid. This important change in the Church's law arose from the increasing number of unbaptized Protestants, and the consequent increase of invalid Marriages among them." (The Question Box, Conway) The Bible never changes, but Catholicism does. By Pat Donahue Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... ...https://www.bible.ca/catholic-flip-flops-marriage-to-non-catholics-invalid.htm

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bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra-rolalyn-maqsood-petra ... ... rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, dweller in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass!" (Lam. 4:18-22). The Petrans jubilantly chanted "Down with it! ... It was a tent city rather than a city with erected buildings at this stage, although they soon began to chisel away at the sandstone rocks. Their territory included ... In 131 CE the emperor Hadrian (76-138 CE) visited Petra and granted it the name Adriana Petra, but during the late Roman period it really only served as a religious ... returned without any reluctance to a purely nomadic existence, mingling without any sense of transition with the Arabs who bad never abandoned that kind of life. ... Excavations show that the Street of Columns (the Cardo) became just a dirt-track, and small shops and hovels were built over it. The Urn Tomb became a church sometime ... There is no information on the history of Petra in the first centuries of the Arab period. In later Arab sources the town appears under the name of Al-Asuit. When ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-petra-rosalyn-maqsood-petra-a-travelers-guide-1994ad.htm

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Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying) ... The church courts the world, and the world caresses the church. The line of separation between the godly and the irreligious fades out into a kind of penumbra, and zealous men on both sides are toiling to obliterate all difference between their modes of action and ... Mich.) [Italics added.] [421] For eighteen centuries this work of ministration continued in the first apartment of the sanctuary. [194] His ministry in the holy from his ascension in the spring of :.D. 31 to the autumn of 1844, was eighteen hundred and thirteen years and six months. [421] This is the service which began when the 2300 days ended. ... This symbol, as most Protestants have believed, represents the papacy, which succeeded to the power and seat and authority once held by the ancient Roman empire Of the leopard like beast ... Sabbath; and there are now true Christians in every church, not excepting the Roman Catholic communion, who honestly believe that Sunday is the Sabbath of divine appointment. [449] ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-exhibits-Great-Contro.htm

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Four Hebrew Scripts: Mosaic, Hieroglyphic, Paleo, Aramaic, square ... ... Their public religious services were not understood by the masses the same way Catholic Latin mass in the USA is. The people watch the ritual but have no idea what ... Paleo-Hebrew, therefore was to David and Solomon what the Septuagint was to the New Testament church. i. Naioth is referenced 6 times: 8. ii. "Now David fled and ... administrative language for much of the Near East from that time throughout the Roman and Byzantine periods, right up to the Arabic conquests in the seventh century ... The neighbors to their immediate west, the Arameans, felt their presence early, and the Aramaic language and script began to spread out. The Assyrians began using it, ... The Rabshakeh incident (2 Kgs 18:26) suggests that Aramaic was on its way to being a kind of international language. Aramaic continued in use after the Assyrians were ... While minor local differences appear sporadically, a literary standard form for both the language and its orthography developed that would last for centuries. It is ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Septuagint-LXX-Hebrew-ancient-earliest-writing-Bible-scripts-alphabets-origin-Mosaic-heiroglyphic-Paleo-Aramaic-Masoretic-Jewish-Greek.htm

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Kadesh-Barnea by Henry Clay Trumbull, 1884 AD ... But Kadesh-barnea was a site of importance forty centuries ago. It was more than once the scene of events on which, for the time, the history of the world was ... I have reason to acknowledge gratefully the kind assistance, at one point and another in my researches, of the late Professor Edward Henry Palmer, the Rev. John ... My endeavor has been, to employ such phonetic equivalents as will best convey the sound of the original, according to the English (or the American) uses of the Roman ... It is chosen by Saint Paul 2 as the likeness of the corres ponding failures of the first efforts of the primitive Christian church; the one type of the Jewish history ... The cautious and conservative Rit- ter 4 is even more explicit in making Kadesh the centre of a new national life to the Israelites. " Here began a new capital, so to ... New York: 1880. SCIIAFF-LANGE : A Commentary on the Holy Scrip tures, Critical, Doctrinal, and Ilomiletical. Genesis Ruth. 4 vols. New York : 1809-1875. SCHLEIDEN, M. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-henry-clay-trumbull-1884ad.htm

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No Pope was considered infallible until 1870 AD Roman Catholic Doctrinal evolution: Doctrinal flip flops No Pope was considered infallible until 1870 AD Click to View Doctrinal flip flops Click to View More Catholic doctrinal Flip-Flops No Pope was considered infallible until 1870 AD No Pope was considered infallible until 1870 AD Pope Adrian VI - It is certain that the Pontiff ... may err in those things which pertain to faith. Pope Paul IV - I do not doubt that I and my predecessors may sometimes have erred. Archbishop Purcell said in his ... "A Doctrinal Catechism," by Keenan, bearing the Imprimatur (official sanction) of Scotch Roman Catholic bishops, pre 1870: Must not Catholics believe the pope himself to be infallible? This is a Protestant invention; it is no article of the Catholic faith; no decision of his can oblige, under pain of heresy, unless it is received and enforced by the teaching body, that is, the bishops of the church. After 1870, this Q&A was dropped from Keenan's catechism. By Pat Donahue Click to View Go To ... ... https://www.bible.ca/catholic-flip-flops-pope-infallible.htm

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Greek Scroll Twelve minor prophets Nahal Hever 50 BC: Septuagint ... The Greek minor prophets scroll dates to about 50 BC: a. "Dating Conclusion: Both hands give the impression of belonging to the late Ptolemaic or early Roman period. ... Now you yourself drink and expose your own nakedness. The cup in the LORD'S right hand will come around to you, And utter disgrace will come upon your glory. "For the ... Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no limit to the treasure- Wealth from every kind of desirable object." (Nahum 2:4-9) c. "The lion tore enough for ... So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days' walk. Then Jonah began to go through ... The LXX is, thus, very much a product of the Hellenistic age. It is possible, of course, that the codices of the fourth and fifth centuries a.d. incorporate some ... Rather the book of the Tanach is a part of the Prophets, the second section of Jewish scriptures, and was forged by the church many centuries later. ... The first ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/bible-manuscripts-Septuagint-twelve-Greek-Minor-prophets-scroll-Nahal-Hever-Bar-Kochba-Cave-of-Horrors-letters-Dodekapropheton-Greek-8HevXIIgr-50BC.htm

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Mt. Sinai located in Arabia: Galatian 4:25 ... It is most likely that it is some kind of monetary unit, probably a large unit.] and to the exorcist-priest [Nabataean ʾpklʾ. It occurs quite frequently and is also ... of the New Testament who would go on to write 14 of the 27 books that contain the majority of theological and doctrinal instruction. Just as Moses went to Mt. ... There is no hint of such a situation during Nebuchadnezzar's campaigns in the final years of the seventh and the early years of the sixth centuries b.c.e. Three broad ... Only the Temple Sadducees continued to speak Hebrew in their worship services to an Aramaic and Greek speaking audience the same way Roman Catholics today use Latin ... MASTER SUMMARY: 100 BC Artemidorus of Ephesus excluded the Sinai Peninsula as Arabian territory and began describing their lands south of the Gulf of Aqaba at Tiran ... The consensus of scholars is that the picture of church life which emerges from the narrative best describes the ecclesiastical and liturgical milieu of the early ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-Mount-Sinai-in-Arabia-exodus-route-Nabatean-kingdom-territory-AretasIV-Arabia-Petrea-New-Testamt-Mt-Sinai-Lawz-Ishmael-Apostle-Paul-36AD-Galatians-4-25.htm

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Jehovah's Witnesses a replica of the Roman Catholic church! Are Jehovah's Witnesses merely a replica of the Roman Catholic church? Click to View Click to View We speak the truth in Love... Click to View Jehovah's Witnesses share exactly these same qualities with the Roman Catholic Church Centralized World-wide church government from which all official doctrine comes. The Pope and the ... The official doctrines that have changed dramatically over time. Both claim "new light" or progressive revelation to explain doctrinal changes. Both teach the organization is supreme over the Bible rather than the Bible being supreme over the organization. The average members are told by the organization that they cannot understand the Bible without the help of the official organization. Both discourage independent thinking from the world organization. Both continue to blindly follow the organization in spite of major doctrinal changes, reversals and flip-flops. Both "explain away" doctrinal changes, reversals and flip-flops by claiming "new light". Both ... ... https://www.bible.ca/Jw-catholic.htm

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Seder Olam Rabbah modern Jewish calendar English pdf free online ... Hebrew manuscripts that survived the Roman devastations,' providing ample opportunity for wholesale chronological changes that would go undetectable in later copies. ... Sepphoris and Nazareth left their marks on history for completely different reasons. Not long after the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E., Sepphoris began to ... Hadrian, who put down the Second Jewish Revolt in a.d. 135, but in the second and third centuries the city became an important center of Jewish rabbinical study. ... to be used by Yemenite communities)." (The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Masoretes, 2005 AD) 6. We have a direct line from Yose ben Halafta who ... In the fourth year of Jehoiakim was the judgement sealed for Israel to exile and for Jerusalem to drink the cup of wine of rage. Chapter 25: Jehoiakim to Zedekiah 88. ... soldiers"; but what is the heroism in people who are going into exile and what kind of war may people fight that are in held in fetters and given in chains; but one ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Seder-Olam-Rabbah-full-text-PDF-Free-Online-Chronology-modern-Jewish-calendar-Textual-variants-Bible-manuscripts-Old-Testament-Torah-Tanakh-Rabbinical-Judaism-160AD.htm

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Extra-Biblical oral apostolic tradition does not exist today Tradition In The Roman Catholic Church is equal to the Bible! Tradition plays an important role in the belief and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. For the Roman Catholic is there great comfort to be found in the idea that a particular belief or practice "has always been" believed or practiced by their Church. This is a major ... "In the definition of the Mariological dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption, it was evident that literary evidence of these beliefs was lacking for the earliest centuries. The Roman Catholic concluded from the literary evidence in which the beliefs are found that the beliefs were as old, at least in an implicit ... At the risk of hypostatizing the institution, one can say that this surging, which went on for centuries before the declarations, gave the Roman Church a kind of inner compulsion to declare itself." There you have it. Tradition, which is held with an equal degree of pious affection as is the Bible by the Roman Catholic Church, is ... ... https://www.bible.ca/catholic-tradition.htm

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The Eastern Greek Orthodox church Examined Click Your Choice Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA Like on this page: Introduction and overview to Roman Catholicism: Start here Irrefutable questions that Roman Catholics can't answer The Catholic church did not give the world the Bible by her authority! The apostate doctrine of Roman Catholic papal infallibility Extra-Biblical oral apostolic tradition does not exist today Sola Scriptura: Using the Bible only to the exclusion of oral church tradition The unbiblical apostate organization of the Roman Catholic church Massive list of Roman Catholic False doctrines The apocrypha is not inspired Tradition wars: The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches make the identical claim of apostolic succession, yet are so different they are not even in communion! Mariolatry: The worship and adoration of the Virgin Mary Doctrinal evolution: Roman Catholic doctrinal flip flops ... https://www.bible.ca/orthodox.htm

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The Church organization and counsels did not give the world the ... The Roman Catholic Church did not give the world the Bible! A conservative, bible believing perspective! God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. God, not men decided the canon. This providence does not mean that church leaders were inspired in their selecting the canon, only that God had his eye ... Implications for Canon Formation, p 467, 2002) In establishing the Canon, the Church authorities of the second and succeeding centuries only subsequently ratified the decisions which had already been reached by the Christian communities, or more exactly, by the individual believers. The organized Church as such did not create the Canon; it recognized the Canon which had already been created. It is only from the second half of the fourth century onwards, in connexion with the closing of the Canon, that the Church authorities began to have an effect." (David G. Meade, Pseudonymity and Canon, p 206, 1986) In most discussions of the canon of the New Testament ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-church-did-not-give-world-bible.htm

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Roman Catholic Faith Examined MAIN HOMEPAGE https://www.bible.ca/moving-search.gif https://www.bible.ca/moving-logo.gif Click Your Choice Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA Links on this site: Introduction and overview to Roman Catholicism: Start here Irrefutable questions that Roman Catholics can't answer The Catholic church did not give the world the Bible by her authority! The apostate doctrine of Roman Catholic papal infallibility Extra-Biblical oral apostolic tradition does not exist today Sola Scriptura: Using the Bible only to the exclusion of oral church tradition The unbiblical apostate organization of the Roman Catholic church Massive list of Roman Catholic False doctrines The apocrypha is not inspired Tradition wars: The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches make the identical claim of apostolic succession, yet are so different they are not even in communion! Mariolatry: The worship and adoration of the Virgin Mary Doctrinal evolution: Roman Catholic doctrinal flip flops ... https://www.bible.ca/catholic.htm

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Irrefutable questions that Roman Catholics can't answer Click to View "Roman Catholic Examined" Home Page Click to View "Orthodox Church Examined" Home Page Click to View Return to "Canon of the Bible" Home Page Questions for Catholics and Orthodox: If the Roman Catholic church gave the world the Bible, being infallible, then why did Rome reject or question the inspiration of James and Hebrews , ... Whose tradition is the one we should follow? Provide a single example of a doctrine that originates from an oral Apostolic Tradition that the Bible is silent about? Provide proof that this doctrinal tradition is apostolic in origin. Provide a single example of where inspired apostolic "oral revelation" (tradition) differed ... If the ability to read is an essential pre-condition to sola Scriptura, then how do illiterate Catholic and Orthodox pew-dwellers know the Catholic and Orthodox Catechisms? Would not the same logic apply to illiterates in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches? If Catholic and Orthodox laity can "know the truth" by hearing ... ... https://www.bible.ca/catholic-questions.htm

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True Sola Scriptura leads to perfect unity! Oral traditions and ... Obviously using the Bible only doesn't work, we need tradition, since there is only one Catholic church!" TRUTH: Any Traditionalist who misuses David Barrett's data in this way is either dishonest or ignorant. Barrett's data leads us to conclude that there are in fact 30 Roman Catholic denominations and 41 different Orthodox denominations and only 27 "Protestant" denominations and 185 "Independent" denominations. Obviously then, using tradition is ... Click to View "There are 30,000 denominations that use sola Scriptura. Obviously using the Bible only doesn't work, we need tradition!" "Sola Scriptura leads to doctrinal anarchy, which is further reason why you need an infallible authority. Look at all of these ... Obviously God did not see fit to give Rome or Constantinople any supremacy, otherwise they would not be protested so much. The fact that there is protest on this kind of universal protest on such a large scale proves something is very wrong. This failure is highlighted by ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-anti-refuted-division.htm

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The Apostolic Fathers believed in expedient, optional tradition In 200 AD, examples of "expedient tradition" these include giving a person a cup of milk mixed with honey immediately following baptism and then not bathing for a week afterwards. Roman Catholic and Orthodox "Classical Reformation" apologists have a great deal of difficulty explaining why this "oral tradition" should not be followed, since they have only one category of tradition and it must be followed. Tradition #3: Expedient tradition. (Roman 14:5) A. Expedient Tradition exists in every church today: Today, every local church on earth has "expedient tradition". Here is a list of the types of things that are "expedient tradition": how fast songs ... Hippolytus implies that the Quartodecimans keep all other "apostolic tradition", except for rejecting how to properly calculate Easter. Now the "Easter controversy" is an example of how man-made doctrine began to infiltrate the church which no one in the first century practiced. Yearly Easter celebrations are found neither in scripture or the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-tradition-5-types-3-expedient.htm

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Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 250 AD: Cyprian things are not observed among them alike, which are observed at Jerusalem, just as in very many other provinces also many things are varied because of the difference of the places and names"(Cyprian, Epistle 74, 6) Click to View The Orthodox Church relishes this little anti-Roman Catholic text by Cyprian. But the text provides just as many problems for the Orthodox because it proves that the celebration of Easter began well after 100 AD, since at 250 AD the practice was all over the map. Had there been a true "apostolic tradition" these variations and differences would not exist! ... Cyprian mistakenly believed that this "church tradition", was in fact the "apostolic tradition". "There is then no reason, dearest brother, for any one to think that the custom of certain persons is to be followed, who have thought in thee past that water alone should be offered in the cup of the Lord. For we must inquire whom they themselves have followed. For if in the sacrifice which Christ offered none is ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-apostolic-fathers-cyprian.htm

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Sola Scriptura: The Heretics even quoted scripture! Perhaps there is more truth to this than what first appears! Perhaps only Catholic cannot refute heretics with the scriptures... Christians, on the other hand, have not problem refuting heretics with the scriptures. Sola Scriptura: The Heretics even quoted scripture! Roman Catholic and Orthodox advocates deceptively mislead you into thinking that since the heretics also tried to prove their doctrines from the Bible, the church gave up on scriptural "proof texting" and won the battles by appealing to tradition. This view completely misrepresents history and the facts. Click here to learn why. "Proponents of sola Scriptura often point out that the early Church Fathers appealed to the Scriptures for authority during the doctrinal controversies of the early centuries. What they usually neglect to mention, however, is that the heretics also appealed to the Scriptures. A classic example of this is the Arian controversy which ultimately resulted in the doctrinal definitions affirming the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-heretics-used-scripture.htm

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Interactive Bible Home Page www.bible.ca ... False doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church 1. The Roman Catholic church examined Is the Roman Catholic church the original one true church? 2. Introduction and overview to Roman Catholicism: Start here 3. Irrefutable questions that Roman Catholics can't answer 4. The Catholic church did not give the world the Bible by her authority! 5. The apostate doctrine of Roman Catholic papal infallibility 6. Extra-Biblical oral apostolic tradition does not exist today 7. Sola Scriptura: Using the Bible only to the exclusion of oral church tradition 8. The unbiblical apostate organization of the Roman Catholic church 9. Massive list of Roman Catholic False doctrines 10. The apocrypha is not inspired 11. Tradition wars: The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches make the identical claim of apostolic succession, yet are so different they are not even in communion! 12. Mariolatry: The worship and adoration of the Virgin Mary 13. Doctrinal evolution: Roman Catholic doctrinal flip flops False doctrines ... ... https://www.bible.ca/

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Massive list of Roman Catholic False doctrines as "eat this bread and drink the cup" in 1 Cor 11:26 after they should be transubstantiated. Tertullian, in 200 AD also knew nothing of the false doctrine but considered the bread and juice as symbols: "Taking bread and distributing it to his disciples he made it his own body by saying, "This is my body," that is a "figure of my body." On the other hand, there would not have been a figure unless there was a true body." (Tertullian, Against Marcion IV. 40) Transubstantiation (real presence) is a false doctrine. Click to View 53 Roman Catholic Doctrines not found in the Bible (1400 years of doctrinal evolution) Click to View The Roman Catholic view of Marriage is flawed, ... Click to View The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches false doctrine of "transubstantiation". The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches are bitterly divided to this very day over the Eucharist, both claiming their own "church tradition" is the correct one. Transubstantiation is a close cousin to Gnostic theology ... ... https://www.bible.ca/catholic-doctrine.htm

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The Apostolic Fathers believed man-made creeds were tradition ... "So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us." (2 Thessalonians 2:15) Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View Introduction: The "Rule of faith" (creeds) of the early church was the scripture itself. By 180 AD, oral and written creeds began to come into general use. It is important to note, that these creeds were based 100% on scripture, and 0% on oral tradition. For Roman Catholic and Orthodox defenders to refer to these creeds as proof of an oral tradition in the early church, is as unscholarly as it is ... We agree that it was a creed, but notice it contains absolutely nothing, except what the scriptures specifically reveal. This would have been a powerful witness for the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches if such a "rule of faith" actually contained doctrinal details not found in scripture like: the perpetual virginity and assumption of Mary; infant baptism; triple baptism; the sign of the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-tradition-5-types-4-creeds.htm

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Stunning quotations from: The New Catholic Catechism Roman Catholic Faith Examined! Click to View Introduction by John Paul II Stunning quotations from... The New Catholic Catechism 1992 French version (English translation completed in 1994) Click to View We Speak truth in LOVE tell us if we have misrepresented anything Click to View The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the result of very extensive collaboration; it was prepared over six years of intense work ... The project was the object of extensive consultation among ... This infallibility extends as far as the deposit of divine Revelation itself. Mary, sinless, perpetual virgin, mother of God, queen of heaven, co-redemptress with Christ 491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, "full of grace" ... Penance necessary for salvation 980 It is through the sacrament of Penance that the baptized can be reconciled with God and with the Church: "Penance has rightly been called by the holy Fathers `a laborious kind of baptism.' This sacrament of Penance is ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-catechism-1994.htm

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30-150AD: Church organization the same as in the Bible Blueprint ... Click to View Learn from the Bible Blueprint, how the church was organized by the apostles! Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church that is organized exactly as the Bible says! The simple bible blueprint of church organization where a group of equal elders (presbyters) govern only within their own local church meeting the full qualifications of 1 Tim 3 and Titus 1. 30-150AD: No trace of the Roman Catholic papal or the Orthodox patriarchal systems. Click to View ... Historically, it wasn't until about 150 AD that we first see a single bishop ruling over the local church. But even in 150 AD, he had no control over other local churches. It wasn't until about 250 AD, when the first diocese began to develop, that ... Each church was a kind of small independent republic, governing itself by its own laws, enacted or at least sanctioned by the people. But in the process of time it became customary for all the Christian churches within the same province to unite and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-33-150AD.htm

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Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 200 AD: Tertullian ... If you had not purposely rejected in some instances, and corrupted in others, the Scriptures which are opposed to your opinion, you would have been confuted in this matter by the Gospel of John, when it declares that the Spirit descended in the body of a dove, and sat upon the Lord. (Tertullian, The Flesh of Christ, ch 3) Click to View Tertullian appeals to scriptures as his primary and foremost doctrinal standard with no mention of oral tradition. Roman Catholic and Orthodox leaders today merely say, "the current tradition of the church is the standard." ... Tertullian's creed, began a very dangerous trend where eventually, as we see in most denominations today, creeds have actually supplanted and replaced scripture as the ultimate authority. ""With whom lies that very faith to which the Scriptures belong. From what and through whom, and when, and to whom, has been handed down that rule, by which men become Christians?" For wherever it shall be manifest that the true Christian rule ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-apostolic-fathers-tertullian.htm

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Autocephalous Orthodox Churches centered at Constantinople Today these autocephalous Orthodox churches include the four ancient Eastern Patriarchates (Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem), and ten other Orthodox churches that have emerged over the centuries in Russia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Cyprus, Greece, Poland, Albania, and the Czech and Slovak ... I just laugh when Roman Catholics and Orthodox both claim their church has the authority to determine doctrine and that the Protestants are divided into many factions. Of course, the Orthodox claim they, not the Roman Catholic church are the one true apostolic church and depict the Roman Catholics "falling away" in 1054 AD. Roman Catholics ... C. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church (Oriental Orthodox Church) Click to View Patriarch Paulos, The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Around the year 480 the "Nine Saints" arrived in Ethiopia and began missionary activities. According to tradition they were from Rome, Constantinople and Syria. They had left their countries because of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/orthodox-church-autocephalous-hierarchy-organization.htm

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Geographic variation caused New Testament canon variation from ... I. Stumper Questions for Roman Catholics and Orthodox: If the Roman Catholic church gave the world the Bible, being infallible, then why did Rome reject or question the inspiration of James and Hebrews , then later accept it? Conversely, Rome accepted as scripture books that were later rejected. If the Catholic church really is illuminated ... Yet, it must be acknowledged that a given book may have been accepted at different times in different regions. It is likely that the "canons" of the different regions influenced one another. The boundaries of the canon were fluid in the second and the third centuries. To sum up, the church recognized as scripture in the fourth ... Fragment and the Origins of the New Testament Canon, p 380, 2002) The shared assumption was that each of the New Testament's writings had been circulating separately for a considerable period before a lengthy and complicated collection process began. The process produced differing results in the various geographical regions. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-why-varied-geography-30-400AD.htm

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Neo-Montanism: Pentecostalism is the ancient heresy of Montanism ... The following year on October 30th 1831 her sister, Mrs. Cardale also began to speak in tongues and to prophesy. Edward Irving formed his own church called the Catholic Apostolic Church and he soon ordained its first twelve apostles on November 7th, 1832. "He also expounded a detailed teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit and gave the whole of his theology an immediacy by his expectation ... By the end of 1913 there were growing factions within the fledgling movement and in the end several independent Pentecostal organizations were formed due to not being able to resolve their leadership and doctrinal differences. Four of these organizations exist today: The Church of God in Christ (black ... Founded and headed the Foursquare Gospel Church, led a controversial life and died of a drug overdose in 1944. Kathryn Kuhlman was ordained a Baptist minister, but did not associate her ministry with any denomination She was heavily influenced by the Azusa street revival, and by the Roman Catholic ... ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues-neo-montanism.htm

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