Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

FinallyFree wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 5:01 am Yes, I will message you with it.

Oh feel free to post it here! Other people are interested too!

As I recall, the original Bible was the King James Authorized Version, which was delivered whole and intact to the early Christian church in Jerusalem in 33 AD or earlier (never specified) in its final form, except in Greek. Or something. But God protected the text compulsively until He hovered over...

He went back, but because his wife wouldn't leave, is the way I understood it.

I think the earliest version of Mark didn't even have that much.

If I remember correctly Nachman did such a good job the king admitted he won the debate but was still wrong. And the king later visited a Jewish synagogue for a service. Yes he did - but he got a whole lot of pushback, and had to pull back some of his assurances. Nachmanides ended up leaving the co...

h**ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputation_of_Paris I think this one is at least as interesting. results - at least it was 'only' books that were burned - this time. The Disputation set in place a train of events which culminated in a burning of a great number of Jewish holy texts, on 17 June 1242.[1...

In the Middle Ages, church authorities used to (occasionally) arrange for debates between some locally prominent rabbi and a church official. It the Jew lost, that was proof Christianity was triumphant. If the Jew WON, he was usually fast tracked out of the country ASAP, because if he stuck around h...

Honestly, growing up in the CoC - I truly believed all the Jews either became Christians in the first century, or else they all fell over and died or something. I didn't think there were any living Jews. It made perfect sense, but was certainly helped by the fact that grade school history (and even ...

As for what we were TAUGHT - we were taught an interesting combination story including elements from all three synoptic gospels where the problems of timing were simply-ignored completely. So he was born in Bethlehem AND when to Egypt AND went to Nazareth AND the Magi came to Bethlehem AND...

This is the reason people write BOOKS called 'Harmony of the Gospels'. Because the stories do not synch. They went to Egypt. They didn't go to Egypt. A guy always called 'Jesus of NAZARETH' who started his entire career in and around the Sea of Galilee - was he born there, or south in a completely d...