Gerd Lüdemann (born 5 July 1946 in Visselhövede), is a German New Testament scholar. He taught this subject from 1983 to 1999 at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen. Since 1999 he has taught there with a special status as Chair of History and Literature of Early...
Believe or be excommunicated
Uta Ranke-Heinemann
After nearly seven years' study of Protestant theology in Bonn, Basel, Oxford, and Montpellier, she converted to Catholicism in 1953 and was promoted to doctor in 1954 in Munich. Before 1954 no doctorate in catholic theology for women was...
Unfortunately Acts is rather vague as to where in scripture the proof is:
Acts27When Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On arriving, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed. 28For he vigorously refuted...
Actually it was his purpose to write of the apostles.
If Christians were well known then why didn't any non-Christians write of them in the first century? Maybe you're allowing your imagination to run away with yourself.
Acts was written in the 90's, thirty years after James the Just was supposedly killed according to Josephus yet the author of Acts fails to mention James the Just, nor his ministry, nor his martyr. Go figure. Perhaps it's in Josephus' Antiquities because Christians put it there.
His baptism was well known way beyond Palestine if we can believe anything we read of in Acts. 24Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the scriptures. 25He had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the...