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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (225)8/5/2005 1:49:16 PM
From: Greg or e  Read Replies (1) of 520
 
Early Christianity was that which was established by Jesus through the Apostles and is in accordance with their teachings. The Apostles, after first teaching orally, wrote the Gospels down and they were in use very early. Luke who wrote the Gospel bearing his name and the book of Acts is considered to be a first class historian of his day. The book of Acts obviously ends before the execution of Paul. Luke makes no mention of a central event that would surely have been included if it had happened before the completion of Acts. Paul wrote the letter to the Corinthians in approx 50-55 A.D. and makes a huge point of the physical bodily resurrection being a necessary and foundational doctrine that if not true, would render Christianity false and would make the Apostles liars.

Now if someone comes along hundreds of years later and denies all the central and foundational doctrines of Christianity then why would you consider them to be Christians? If Howard Dean claimed tomorrow that he was the real Republican would you just accept that because he claimed it, or would you examine his policies/doctrines with the established Republican policies/doctrines? Any unbiased examination of Gnostic teachings reveals they are in direct opposition to what was firmly established by the eyewitness, first person testimony of the Apostles.
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