if attending Church was not important then why did God allow antioch ? the Church birthed in acts and grew. in the times we live in. so many different teachings . from being baptized to be saved. baptized in jesus name only speaking in tongues to show you have the Holy Ghost . . osas to snas one has to be predestined. the list grows.
well ezra, i would say that there is a time to attend church, and a time to become Church, and they were first called “Christians” at Antioch, right?
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so, id rather not get into that with you right now, but imo when you understand that “Christians” had a previous definition, and what “Antioch” means, the Antioch story comes to have a…different cast to it, lets say. Kinda like how “iron sharpens iron” morphs, when “sharpening a friend’s countenance” gets understood for what it is?
as for those proceeding terms up there that religion has appropriated, from “baptized” to “snas,” i suggest that there are perfectly mundane counterparts for all of them, that i admit were hard to accept at first, but i have never gone back, as the mundane definitions were just too apt to reject, at least for me
but meat and milk dont mix, and i dont want to argue about them, so i am mentioning this that you might see that you are allowed to define these for yourself, using the Bible, rather than accept definitions provided by the cult of sol, who has a product to sell.
which i dont mean to denigrate the cult of sol either, some of the highest praise was given to the Roman Centurion by Jesus. Nothing wrong with the cult of sol, as a tree to be from imo
everybody has to start somewhere right