vendredi 31 janvier 2014

PAUL RECEIVED LETTER OF THE CHURCH OF CORINTH

PAUL RECEIVED , LETTER OF THE CHURCH OF CORINTH
By: Valdemir Mota de Menezes
There is evidence that the apostle Paul received a representative of the Church of Corinth , bringing a written text , perhaps only with topical subject that the church that Paul would explain more fully the Christian position on these issues .
One evidence of this is in chapter seven when Paul says ? With respect to what you wrote to me ... "later Paul says, " as the question of virgins ... " And again, " about meat sacrificed to idols ... " All of these passages indicate that Paul wrote the letter to the Corinthians in response to a correspondence that church .

mercredi 29 janvier 2014

HISTORICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRISTIAN AND JEW

HISTORICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRISTIAN AND JEW
Valdemir Mota de Menezes

What's the difference between a Christian and a Jew?
And at what date can we even ask that question?
We've talked about the fact that at the time of the writing of Paul's
letters, there wasn't even a word for "Christian." We find that word first
recorded in the New Testament in Acts 11:26: "In Antioch the disciples were
for the first time called Christians (Christianoi)."
At around the same time in the early second century, officials of the Roman
Empire seem to have recognized Christians has a distinct group.
A letter sent from a provincial governor, Pliny, to the Roman Emperor
Trajan in the early second century--- maybe 112, or 113--
asks the question of whether it's right to execute those called
Christians, and how pardon might be granted to those accused of being
Christians who then pray or offer incense and wine to or on behalf of
the Roman emperor.
But that's a later story.
Earlier, our evidence indicates that Romans don't know much about
Christians.
The Roman writer, Suetonius, who writes in the late first, or early
second century, talks about an event that took place in the reign of the
Emperor Claudius in the mid-first century at the time when Paul was
writing his letters.
Suetonius writes, "He [Claudius]
banished from Rome all the Jews, who were continually making disturbances
at the instigation of one Chrestus." This may refer to arguments within
Judaism over Christ--
that is, over an interpretation that Christ, the "Anointed One," had come.
But the Romans don't even know the word, "Christ." They confuse it with
"Chrestus."
Judaism and Christianity did not necessarily part
ways at an early date.
Into the second century, and even into the fourth century, communities of
Jews and Christians overlapped and interacted.
We can see this, for example, in a fourth century churchman from Antioch
who truly loved Paul: John Chrysostom.
In one of his sermons, he bitterly complains that his congregants are
celebrating Jewish festivals, and even going to Jewish synagogues to confirm
their oaths in the presence of the sacred Torah scrolls, or the Law that
was kept there.
So we learn two things.
First, the Romans likely did not understand Christians to be a
religious group, or an association with a separate name from Jews, until
the second century.
And second, even in the fourth century, some Christians were acting
an awful lot like Jews, and this annoyed other Christians--
John Chrysostom, for example.
The lines between Christian and Jewish identity were sometimes quite porous.

dimanche 19 janvier 2014

CERINTHIANS

 By: Valdemir Mota de Menezes, the scribe
The Cerinthians were a branch of early Christianity which put into question the authority of Paul. Were in Paul's letters that Christianity has become disconnected from the umbilical cord of Judaism. There was resistance among the apostles themselves on the issue of custody of the law as a duty to the converted Gentiles to Christ. The universal acceptance of the Pauline letters as canonical, put an end to the Judaizers groups within the early church.

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The Cerinthians (Epiphanius, 28.5.1-3)
(ca. 375)

For they use the Gospel according to Matthew-in part, because of the human genealogy, but not all of it-and they adduce this proof-text from
the Gospel: "It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher" [Matt. 10:25]. What then, they say-Jesus was circumcised; be circumcised yourself. Christ lived according to the Law, they say, and you must do the same. Hence some of these, like men seized by poisonous drugs, are convinced by the specious arguments based on Christ's having been circumcised. They break with Paul because he does not accept circumcision, but they also reject him because he said, "You who would be justified by the law have fallen away from grace" [Gal. 5:4] and "If you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you" [Gal. 5:2].

EBIONITES AND BOOK ASCENTS OF JAMES


“Ascents of James” (Epiphanius, Pan. haer. 30.16.6-9)
Anonymous [A False Proselyte] (third century?)

By: Scribe Valdemir Mota de Menezes:
Truly the charges and the craziest interpretations are not privileges of our generation. At other times people who came for various reasons were delirious with theories and assumptions without any rational or historical foundation. There are many people who are antagonistic in nature. They only feel complete and happy if they are contradicting each other.

They [sc. the Ebionites] invoke other acts of apostles, in which are many
things full of impiety, which they use primarily to arm themselves against the truth. They also produce certain pilgrimages 1 and expositins, namely in "The Ascents of James," pretending that James spoke against the Temple and the sacrifices and against the fire of the altar, and many other things full of empty talk. So also, in the same place, they are not ashamed to slander Paul, using certain charges trumped up y the malice and error of their pseudo-apostles. They say that he was not only a citizen of Tarsus, as he himself admits and does not deny, but also of Greek origin, basing this on the passage in which Paul candidly says, "I am a Tarsan, citizen of no mean city" [Acts 21.:39]. Then they declare that he was a Greek, child of a Greek mother and a Greek father. He went up to Jerusalem, they say, and when he had spent some time there, he was seized with a passion to marry a daughter of the priest. For this reason he became a proselyte and was circumcised. Then, when he failed to get the girl, he flew into a rage and wrote against circumcision and against Sabbath and Law.

DOCUMENTO ANTICO SU SAULO DI TARSO

DOCUMENTO  ANTICO SU SAULO DI TARSO
Da: Scribe Valdemir M Menezes.
Un antico manoscritto racconta le persecuzioni che i primi cristiani dei tempi apostolici subite da Saulo di Tarso. Questi "nemici" che sono entrati nel tempio e perseguitati cristiani è una parafrasi della persona di Saul, che sarebbe poi diventato, e sarebbe il massimo esponente del cristianesimo.

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Selezioni di Clementine Riconoscimenti
anonimo
[ Persecutore della Fede ] ( data sconosciuta )

[ I capitoli precedenti descrivono il dibattito tra gli apostoli a Gerusalemme ei leader di ciascuna delle sette ebraiche . ] *** E quando le questioni erano al punto que que dovrebbero mangiare ed essere battezzati , qualcuno dei nostri nemici , il 20entering tempio con pochi uomini , cominciò a gridare ea dire : Che dire voi, o uomini d'Israele ? Perché sei così facilmente affrettato a ? Perché siete condotti a capofitto dalla maggior parte degli uomini miserabili che vengono ingannati dal mago ? ' Così, mentre parlava , e l'aggiunta di più per lo stesso effetto , e mentre James il vescovo lo stava confutando , cominciò a eccitare il popolo e per aumentare il tumulto , in modo che le persone potrebbero non essere in grado di sentire ciò che è stato detto. Perciò cominciò a guidare tutti in confusione con grida , e di disfare ciò che era stato organizzato con molto lavoro , e allo stesso tempo a rimproverare i sacerdoti , e per farli infuriare con oltraggi e abusi , e come un pazzo , per eccitare tutti all'omicidio , dicendo: ' Che fate voi ? Perché voi esitano ? Oh , lenta e inerte , perché noi non imponiamo le mani su di loro, e tiriamo tutti questi compagni a pezzi ? ' Detto questo, in primo luogo , afferrando un marchio forte dall'altare , diede l'esempio di colpendo . Poi anche gli altri , vedendolo , sono stati portati via con una follia . Poi seguì un tumulto su entrambi i lati , delle percosse e picchiato . Molto sangue è sparso , c'è un volo confuso , in mezzo ai quali que nemico ha attaccato James e lo gettò a capofitto dalla cima della scalinata , e pensando che fosse morto , lui importava di non infliggere ulteriori violenze su di lui .

Ma i nostri amici lo sollevarono , They Were è sia più potente e più numerosi degli altri , ma , dalla paura di Dio , si subita piuttosto di essere ucciso da una forza inferiore , Avrebbero uccidere di altri. Ma quando venne la sera i sacerdoti rinchiusi nel tempio , e siamo tornati a casa di James , e là trascorse la notte in preghiera . Poi, prima luce del giorno siamo andati a Gerico , al numero di 5000 uomini . Poi, dopo tre giorni uno dei fratelli è venuto a noi da Gamaliel , chi abbiamo accennato prima, ci porta segreta notizie que que nemico aveva ricevuto una commissione da Caifa , il sommo sacerdote , che avrebbe dovuto arrestare tutti coloro che credevano in Gesù , e dovrebbe andare a Damasco con le sue lettere , e là que Inoltre , Utilizzando l'aiuto dei miscredenti , Se dovesse fare scompiglio tra i fedeli , que ed egli si affrettava a Damasco soprattutto per questo motivo , perché credeva que Pietro era fuggito là . APD circa trenta giorni successivi si è fermato per la sua strada mentre passa attraverso Gerico andando a Damasco . A quel tempo eravamo assenti , essendo andato fuori ai sepolcri dei due fratelli che di per sé sono stati sbiancati ogni anno , con la quale miracolo furia di molti contro di noi è stato trattenuto , perché que Hanno visto i nostri fratelli ebbero in ricordo davanti a Dio . * **
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20 . Questa " nemico" è Paul . La stessa frase viene applicato a lui nella Lettera di Pietro a Giacomo (sopra) .