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The early church was only an universal organization, one church with the mindset of serving oneanother. https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/The-Church-Universal "DEFINITION The universal church is a heavenly and eschatological assembly of everyone—past, present, and future—who belongs...

Fact is all Jewish People of his time drank wine, Jesus never got drunk. I have a Jewish background and drinking wine with Dinner has always been common in Judaism. Luke 7:34 is a false acussation of over eathing and getting drunk. Jesus even made good wine.

Chrysostom Because of this one would not be far wrong in saying that it is both new and old: new because it has only recently been made known to you, old and venerable because it has swiftly become similar in stature to days long recognised and it feels as though it is of similar age to them...

Thank You, If one studies the five solas, they cannot seperate them to make strawman claims. The Foundation is: "The doctrine of solus Christus was highlighted during the Reformation as the Reformers identified the problem of a church that was casting shade on Christ; of a church that was...

Nice discussion all

thanks for friendly discussion all

what was the topic?

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Start at post #5

There is nothing like boring people with the old copycat thesis that historians refuted decades ago.

https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/fir-fir-tree/

" The palmette at the crown of the tree has been interpreted to represent the frond of a date palm, and the tree itself is associated with the goddess Ishtar, a fertility deity and goddess of the date harvest." https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/70572

1 Kings 6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 1 Kings 6:34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two...

" Cupressus sempervirens , or cypress, all which are at this day found in the Lebanon. The wood of the fir was used for ship-building, (Ezekiel 27:5) for musical instruments, (2 Samuel 6:5) for beams and rafters of houses, (1 Kings 5:8,10; 2 Chronicles 2:8) It was a tall evergreen tree of...

curious aside on how fir trees were used in Biblical times. "Hermon was famous for fir trees, which were used to built the Phoenician ships (Eze. 27:5). See De. 3:9, which identifies Senir with Hermon." https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/trees_in_ancient_israel.php " “The glory of Lebanon will...

Thanks all for treating each other with respect.,

There are many words used by JW's that are not in the Bible. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_glossary#Theocratic https://medium.com/@SylvianeNuccio/55-loaded-language-terms-only-jehovahs-witnesses-use-and-understand-2e89e8a906dd

Did Santa slap Arius? Let’s Stop Celebrating St. Nicholas Punching Arius https://aleteia.org/2021/12/06/did-st-nicholas-punch-arius-at-the-council-of-nicea/ https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/54016/did-st-nicholas-punch-arius-at-the-council-of-nicaea...