The following is a brief overview of what I have learned while studying the New Testament history. Starting out with the meanings of Jesus' names and titles of Jesus. Next there was the building of the church and how every tiny detail in movement was significant. Followed by the importance of study...
In the second-century, the Christian Church strained for identity while being persecuted by the Roman authorities, confronted by Jewish and pagan hostility, and challenged by the internal dilemma of Gnostic adaptation. Gnostic sects arose not in direct opposition to the Orthodox Church, but with a harmonized tactic, selecting certain elements of Christianity and disposing of others. The Orthodox Church and the Gnostics held completely dissimilar views regarding religion, origin, and the importance of church authority. Whereas Orthodox Christianity strictly believed that there was only one God ...
1 An Absent Father The impact of a fatherless home has consequences that sometimes cannot be realized until much later in life. In addition, when a father who is in the ministry, commits a grievous sin, it affects not only his family's views but the...
