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Early Church Confession!!!!

Discussion in '2006 Archive' started by Rhetorician, Feb 17, 2006.

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  1. bapmom

    bapmom New Member

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    DeclareHim, but why do they need to work with any other church? I mean, I don't think this is a particular issue that needs to be worried about as a criticism.

    On the issue of creeds, I don't worry too much about them unless the church chooses to adhere to one. Then, if it lists it as an important aspect of what they believe, I'll look it over. If it's Biblical I see no problem. After all, thats all a creed is for....to declare precisely what the church believes about the BIble and other important doctrinal issues.
     
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    Gene

    Your posts were excellent - I have been reading a few church history books lately and everything you posted is right on target.

    The folks who became Christians in the early church did not have the luxury of 2000 years of solid Christian teaching behind them - the creeds and confessions were responses to heresies that we being proposed by folks like the nestorians and the arians who were infulenced by the greeks and other pagans in trying to figure out the trinity and how Jesus could be fully God and man. I believe that God led these councils to develop these creeds and confessions.

    unfortunately as time went on, the offical Roman and Byzantine churchs became more influenced by politics - both church and state.
     
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  3. Rhetorician

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    Jimmy C,

    I would add that in many areas around the Roman Empire they did not even have anything but maybe one section of the NT. Maybe the church in Rome had Paul's Book of Romans only.

    The early confessions were a way of making sure the new converts knew enough of the Gospel to be a real follower of Jesus.

    The confessions let them know the essentials of the faith at the time at a very minimum w/out the priviledge of the whole NT.

    Some people think the entire King James Version just dropped "out of the sky" the way it is in their hands; and that Jesus spoke in "Thee"s and "Thou"s I suppose!?

    sdg!

    rd
     
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