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First Post: #12 NT Canon
: Which books (plural) did he describe as being “disputed,” and which book (singular) did he categorize as both “accepted” and “rejected”?
Eusebius categorized many different “Christian” books throughout the early 300s Ad. Many of the books
fell into groups which were named, “accepted,” “rejected,” and “disputed.” The books that were labeled
as “accepted” were the Acts of the Apostles, the letters from Paul, the books of John, the books of Peter,
and the Apocalypse of John. The “disputed” writings were, the books of James, Jude, the second book of
Peter, and the second and third book of John. The “rejected” writings are the Acts of Paul, the so-called Shepherd, and the Apocalypse of Peter, the epistles of Barnabas, the so-called Teachings of the Apostles. The book that Eusebius categorizes as both “accepted” and “rejected” was the Apocalypse of John. Knowing that there were more books that just the ones that are in the New Testament amazes me. I was not aware that the Bible had to go through trials to see which books were accepted or not. Second Post: #11 Samaritans
: Read Luke 10:25-37 to see how Jesus describes a Samaritan to be the hero of a famous story. Read John 4:1-26 to see Jesus’ unusual compassion and understanding towards Samaritans. Describe Jesus’ compassion towards this group based on these two passages.
In the First story Jesus describes a story about a Jew who got robbed and beaten up on the street. He tells this tory to prove what he means when stating, “Love your neighbor.” As the Jew is left on the street a priest walks by and ignores the poor man, a while later another Jew walks by and ignores the robbed man just like the priest. In this time Samaritans were the known enemies of Jews, but when a Samaritan walk by he helps the Jew and takes him to a place where he pays for his care and health. Jesus tells this story to demonstrate how loving your neighbor means loving everyone no matter if they are your enemy and having compassion with those around you. Jesus love for everyone outweighs any sins or harm that they have done in the past. It basically revolves around the Golden rule that we know, that states “Treat others the way you want to be treated.”
Third Post: #1 Synagogues
Read Acts 13:13-43 to see how the Apostle Paul was able to use synagogues outside of Palestine. Describe how these gathering places would be helpful for early Christians spreading
the message about Jesus
In the passage of Acts 13;13-43, a scene is described where Paul uses these gathering places to spread God’s word to others. These gathering places were very helpful for early Christians because they were hearing messages straight from the 12 disciples. As people heard this, I imagine that those who believed and accepted Jesus as their savior, told their friends and brought them to the next gathering which allowed many people to hear the message of God and planted a seed in their hearts. As the disciples spread their word in the synagogues, scribes got the opportunity to write down their sermons and use them to keep spreading their message even when the disciples left. Fourth Post: #7 Pontius Pilate to see how Pontius Pilate (AD 26- 36) used force as Roman procurator to impose his demands on the Jewish people. Describe how he did this
Pontius Pilate first brought images or idols during the night into Jerusalem well knowing that the Jewish laws abolished them. Since it was night the people could not stop him because they were sleeping. Once
the people realized that the images were there they gathered in multitudes and requested to be removed. The people persisted and kept gathering but on the sixth day Pilate ordered his soldiers to
secretly have their weapons and surround them. Once the Jews came to petition once again Pilate ordered his soldiers to surround them and threaten their lives in order to keep them from disturbing him but the people would rather die than give in to their laws. Once Pilate saw this, he ordered the images back to Cesarea. Pilate then undertook a current of water and derived a stream that passed through Jerusalem causing the people to gather once more and reproach him angrily. Pilate knew that the people were going to gather so he ordered his soldiers to carry daggers under their armor and ordered his soldiers to surround the people and signaled them to give them great blows to punish them for reproaching. He abused his power and secretly commanded the soldiers to hurt the people because he did not like their laws and wanted to be feared and obeyed so when the people disliked his actions he threatened them into submission. New Insight: Please describe what new meaningful, significant insight you gained from this unit of material.
I was born in a Christian household, so most of the verses and books were not new to me but reading it again and asking detailed questions along the way has helped me to understand God’s word on another level. Something that came as a surprise to me was the prestigious process that the books and letters of the bible had to go through to be considered scripture. I always though that the disciples made the bible
and arranged it in that specific way. It is quite fascinating to see that there were more books that could have been part of the bible but were denied by Christian historians. I used to believe that the Bible was made and arranged by the 12 disciples and that the way that the books were organized was significant but finding out that historians chose which books got considered to be scripture proved me wrong. It was also interesting to learn that the books were arranged by date and some by length.
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