tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post454734092074124670..comments2024-03-16T02:12:38.325-07:00Comments on God cannot be contained!: Is fame and fortune evidence of God's favor?Miller Jones/Lonnie C Hendrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02865316200703641028noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post-11114176401044964272014-09-23T18:34:05.362-07:002014-09-23T18:34:05.362-07:00I will respond to this comment in my next post.I will respond to this comment in my next post.Miller Jones/Lonnie C Hendrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865316200703641028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post-38218283690458107612014-09-23T18:28:25.794-07:002014-09-23T18:28:25.794-07:00One of the comments that I received reminded me of...One of the comments that I received reminded me of the story of Lazarus and the rich man. (Luke 16:19-31) As you will recall, Lazarus was poor and afflicted during his life on this earth - a beggar. The rich man lived in luxury and had the finest clothes to wear. Lazarus ended up in the Kingdom, and the rich man ended up in the Lake of Fire. Remember Abraham's reply to the rich man, "Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish." (verse25) In other words, God is going to someday rectify the mistakes of the unfair hand of fate in this life.Miller Jones/Lonnie C Hendrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865316200703641028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post-25692105159825339642014-09-23T06:34:05.505-07:002014-09-23T06:34:05.505-07:00How Christian religion started?
Pre-30 – various ...How Christian religion started?<br /><br />Pre-30 – various Jewish strains of Messiah-belief are apparent in Daniel, Zechariah, Philo, and later sources concerning a heavenly Son of God, Logos, End-Times figure, with the name Jesus attached to some versions.<br /><br />Circa 30(?) – one version of this Jesus coalesces around the Pillars Peter, James and John, when they think to decrypt OT prophecies so as to find messages from heaven concerning his descent, crucifixion and resurrection in the heavenly realm. Their creed might be the one written up in the Vision of Isaiah. Their essential faith is that Jesus died a sacrificial death as propitiation of the justice of God, substituting his ultimate sacrifice for the Jews’ feeble efforts to satisfy God through the Temple cult.<br /><br />Circa 45-50(?) – Simon Magus announces a new understanding of Jesus belief, whereby the old dispensation of the Torah is not divine, but is instead the oppressive creation of intermediary ruling demons who created the Earth and trapped our spirits in material bodies. His essential faith is that through baptism we participate in the death and resurrection of Jesus, thereby freeing us from death and thus from the power of the legislating demon powers who rule the Earth. His creed too is based on the Vision of Isaiah, but his movement also produces the original of GMark as an allegorical expression of their belief and an attack on the Petrine Jewish Christian movement. Simon writes the originals of the Pauline epistles, including Galatians which cautions his flock against listening to the Jewish Christians who want to impose Jewish cultic requirements on them.<br /><br />Circa 60-70 – Simon Magus’ writings are edited and interpolated by a Proto-Orthodox writer who names him Paul so as to critique Simon and make him appear to promote orthodox belief in the divinity of the Torah. This Proto-Orthodoxy is a new development, combining the belief of the Jewish Christians in the divinity of the Law with the belief of the Simonians in Christians’ freedom from the Law.<br /><br />Circa 80-120 – somehow, whether due to the loss of traditions in post-70 Judea, or to its efficiency as a meme, or to its utility to the Proto-Orthodox in establishing their apostolic bona fides, the surface allegory of GMark is spread as if it were a historical report: the belief arises and proliferates that Jesus of Nazareth was the crucified and resurrected Messiah. Orthodoxy now comprises a combination of beliefs in a Historical Jesus and in the divinity of the prior Torah dispensation. There is a great loss of documents from the first-century Church, so that, despite its claims to apostolicity and historical priority, when Eusebius much later comes to write the history of the early Church he is virtually unable to find any documentary records. During this period, Matthew is written as a Jewish-Christian revision of GMark. The original of GLuke is also written (for what purpose?) Also during this period, Marcion emerges as a critic of Proto-Orthodoxy, claiming that Paul’s epistles have been systematically Judaised by the followers of the Petrine group of apostles who failed to understand Jesus’ radical anti-Law message. Marcion is not able however to get his hands on copies of the Pauline originals; he uses a version of GLuke different from ours.<br /><br />Minimalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394978086891772878noreply@blogger.com