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My man, they weren't in Judea. They were in Galilee of the Gentiles. Different customs, different accent, and most did not trace their lineage to Judah.

To my thinking, innovation isn't something you want in theology. Doctrines should be demonstrably true from the beginning of history to the present, even if they weren't articulated explicitly from the start.

Brakelite did a good job explaining. It feels like this should be obvious to anyone who lives in a large country with a federalized government that is so far detached from the people's interests. But perhaps that isn't the case where you live. :)

I did several pages ago.

I was thinking more along the lines of The Didache than the Nicene Creed. By the time of the Council of Nicaea the church had developed a monolithic structure with a centralized power that was trying to quell regional differences. I don't want that from a creed, either.

I have Restorationist tendencies - I tend to put value on the way the early church did things. So how did they do it? The early churches made creeds, defining what doctrines were essential. Outside of those essentials, where people's beliefs may have diverged they seemed to tolerate the...

An ironic choice of word, given the topic.

1st-century Judaism didn't have a single orthodoxy. It had 4 or 5 competing sects. 1) Sadducees (Zadokites) 2) Pharisees 3) Essenes/Baptizers 4) Zealots Jesus doesn't fall neatly into any of them, but He has some things in common with each.

Spitballing here, but is it possible that the author just didn't record all the steps in each instance?

Sayeth the Lord? Did you just take your own words and try to ascribe them to God? Do you claim to be a prophet now? In contradiction, the Bible says... Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation...

I think Jesus spoke both. Not sure why it has to be one or the other.

My experience of this is that tackling harder topics in an educational setting leads to MORE divisions and disagreements. The 'deeper walk' works better when it's more 'walk' and less 'deep.' Go and DO something together for your community. Weed someone's garden. Run a bake sale and use the...

What area? Judea? Jesus grew up in Egypt and then Galilee; not Judea. It makes plenty of sense to speak Greek there. His ministry was also to Perea, and Gedara, the coastal cities around Capernaum, and the cities of the Decapolis in Transjordan. Greek makes sense in all those places. Jesus...

Dunno. Seems like the "responses" are more of a recitation of talking points that are tangentially related to what was said.

Original Schmoriginal. We have a Greek text that's pretty good. Better than the English one by a substantial margin.

There's a point here, but you've greatly overstated it. We may not have the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS set down by the authors, but we do have a lot of copies, and reading something in its ORIGINAL LANGUAGE is much better than any translation.

Nancy got the right cities. Seems like they followed the instructions... But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Acts 1:8

I could I suppose, although one of those churches no longer exists - the Open Door Fellowship in Tollesson Arizona. I think another church picked up the 'Open Door' name, but it isn't the same church.

I think that may have been the translator. There's several words that are translated as Word...

What rules do you use for interpreting Scripture? Personally, I try to interpret according to the author's original intent first. What were they trying to say? In this Psalm, David seems to be talking about a command of God that he already knows. It stands to reason that he isn't referring...