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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Christian Writings before legalization of Christianity

EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS (BEFORE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE)

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/churchfathers.html

In the above link, you can read the writings of early Christians, after the New Testament and before the legalization of Christianity by emperor Constantine.

In the link below, an online dictionary with writings that some of the early christians left, organized alphabetically. Very incomplete, but growing.

http://www.earlychristiandictionary.com/dictionary.html

A more complete work, organizing early christian beliefs, has been done by David Bercot and can be purchased here:

http://www.scrollpublishing.com/store/more-dictionary.html

The same author's seminars on early Christian beliefs have been uploaded to youtube and can be seen for free:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6qGDn7Nnd84-UgURpw8Dw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mu3MhVJc5E

When Enperor Constantine The Great stopped the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, Eusebius, a Christian, wrote one of the earliest accounts of Church History. "Historia Ecclesiastica". The full text of this book is online for free, and tells us how Paul and Peter died, about the persecutions and martyrdoms, the development of The Church, from New Testament days, until the fourth century. The following links contain the book, free, online.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.toc.html
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2501.htm

Monday, December 1, 2014

LISTEN, READ THE BIBLE ON YOUR PHONE

BIBLE.IS has an excellent Bible app that you can download to your phone and listen to in many languages. We recommend you to listen to the KJV for the sake of accuracy, in spite of the thous' and thees'. More modern Bibles like the NIV or others have a tendency to change the text to make it more appealing to modern sensibilities.

http://www.bible.is/apps/

This other application is excellent, to read the KJV Bible on your phone, without using up your data plan:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gyc.ace.kjv&hl=en

Sunday, November 30, 2014

GOOD READING AND MEDIA

THE GOOD LIFE BY CHUCK SMITH
Change your way of thinking by Creflo Dollar
The importance of Character by Creflo Dollar
The complete writings of Menno Simmons, founder of the Mennonites and Amish
How to change your heart by Charles G. Finney
Learning the Hard Way by Chuck Smith
Repent of your sins towards God by David Pawson
The Peace of God
Happiness (1) by Billy Graham (2) (3)
The Martyrdom of Polycarp, account from the first century. Here, Catholic does not refer to the Roman Catholic church, but it is a latin word that means "universal".

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

ISRAEL and The Jews

WHEN JESUS CAME to Israel, he divided the Jewish nation in two groups: Those who believed that Jesus was the promised Messiah of the Old Testament, and those who didn't. Those who didn't believe Jesus was the Messiah, killed him (Fulfilling yet another Old Testament Prophecy found in Daniel 9:24-27) and then tried to kill believing Jews. For this, they were punished with the punishments prophesied in the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy, chapter 28. Also, after killing Jesus accusing him of being a revolutionary,

they, who were the real revolutionaries, revolted against the Roman Empire and as a result, their temple was destroyed, fulfilling Old Testament prophecies found in Daniel 9:24-27.

The believing Jews and Israelites became THE CHURCH (The word "Church" simply means "congregation", The Chosen People of God. Also, non Jews (Gentiles) were added into THE CHURCH, if they were faithful, without racial prejudice. THE CHURCH is the continuation of Faithful Israel, while the synagogue is the continuation of Unfaithful Israel.

The non believing Jews remained

Since then, The Jews have been persecuting THE CHURCH, who wants nothing but their good. Jesus himself, when crucified, said: "Forgive them, Father, for they don't know what they are doing".

Stephen, when being stoned by The Jews, said

http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/reformed/israelaf.htm