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His knowledge of history, or whatever, is limited to the West.
Better then having the knowledge and debating skills of a child.
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His knowledge of history, or whatever, is limited to the West.
Did you know one if Jesus's disciples Saint Thomas died in India?
There is no contemporary evidence for Thomas being in the subcontinent, though it was possible for a Roman Jew of the time to make such a trip. Groups such as the Cochin Jews and Bene Israel are known to have existed in India around that time
The earliest known source connecting the apostle to India is the Acts of Thomas, likely written in the early 3rd century
An organised Christian presence in India dates to the arrival of East Syrian settlers and missionaries from Persia, members of the Church of the East or Nestorian Church, in around the 3rd century
:slap: not a credible source.
Peter died a martyr.A martyr's death is described in John 21:18 Most truly I say to you, when you were younger, you used to clothe yourself and walk about where you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and another man will clothe you and carry you where you do not wish.St. Thomas was killed in 72 AD. Nasrani Churches from Kerala in South India state that St. Thomas died atMylapore near Chennai in India and his body was interred there. The accounts of Marco Polo from the 13th century state that the Apostle had an accidental death outside his hermitage in Chennai by a badly aimed arrow of a fowler who not seeing the saint shot at peacocks there.[29]:238
29. Hunter, William Wilson (1886). The Indian empire : its peoples, history, and products. Morrison & Gibb.
Thomas the Apostle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peter died a martyr.A martyr's death is described in John 21:18 Most truly I say to you, when you were younger, you used to clothe yourself and walk about where you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and another man will clothe you and carry you where you do not wish.
19*He said this to indicate by what sort of death he would glorify God. After he said this, he said to him: Continue following me.
Jesus was describing to Peter how he would die.
One cannot glorify God by dying because of an accident.
My mistake.I thought of Peter for some reason.There is no evidence that Thomas did go to India.If you read in Wikipedia passage where it speaks of what you claim,it says "it is believed.." It is not based on fact.Also,The Gospel of Thomas is not an inspired writing of God.This same Gospel of Thomas is the same book that speaks of Jesus as a brat who killed some people.I did not mention Peter.
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My mistake.I thought of Peter for some reason.There is no evidence that Thomas did go to India.If you read in Wikipedia passage where it speaks of what you claim,it says "it is believed.." It is not based on fact.Also,The Gospel of Thomas is not an inspired writing of God.This same Gospel of Thomas is the same book that speaks of Jesus as a brat who killed some people.
Later Apocryphal Works. Particularly from the second century*C.E. forward there has developed an immense body of writings making claim to divine inspiration and canonicity and pretending to relate to the Christian faith. Frequently referred to as the Apocryphal New Testament, these writings represent efforts at imitating the Gospels, Acts, letters, and the revelations contained in the canonical books of the Christian Greek Scriptures. A large number of these are known only through fragments extant or by quotations from them or allusions to them by other writers.
These writings manifest an attempt to provide information that the inspired writings deliberately omit, such as the activities and events relating to Jesus life from his early childhood on up to the time of his baptism, or an effort to manufacture support for doctrines or traditions that find no basis in the Bible or are in contradiction to it. Thus the so-called Gospel of Thomas and the Protevangelium of James are filled with fanciful accounts of miracles supposedly wrought by Jesus in his childhood. But the whole effect of the picture they draw of him is to cause Jesus to appear as a capricious and petulant child endowed with impressive powers. (Compare the genuine account at Lu 2:51,*52.) The Apocryphal Acts, such as the Acts of Paul and the Acts of Peter, lay heavy stress on complete abstinence from sexual relations and even depict the apostles as urging women to separate from their husbands, thus contradicting Pauls authentic counsel at 1*Corinthians 7.
Commenting on such postapostolic Apocryphal writings, The Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible (Vol. 1, p. 166) states: Many of them are trivial, some are highly theatrical, some are disgusting, even loathsome. (Edited by G.*A. Buttrick, 1962) Funk and Wagnalls New Standard Bible Dictionary (1936, p.*56) comments: They have been the fruitful source of sacred legends and ecclesiastical traditions. It is to these books that we must look for the origin of some of the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church.
Just as the earlier Apocryphal writings were excluded from among the accepted pre-Christian Hebrew Scriptures, so also these later Apocryphal writings were not accepted as inspired nor included as canonical in the earliest collections or catalogs of the Christian Greek Scriptures.See CANON.
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My mistake
Ok.....Never-mind.
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I take it you deny Christ died on the cross or as a result of crucifixion soon after. Islamic claims about what did happen are all over the map. What is it you think occurred instead?Regards
Hey, you stole my thunder. I was setting up that person for just such a retort and you blew my cover. Dang history believers....Because I'm gonna trust a foreign document written 600 years after the fact, over a local document written 40 years after the fact.
I take it you deny Christ died on the cross or as a result of crucifixion soon after. Islamic claims about what did happen are all over the map. What is it you think occurred instead?
...Because I'm gonna trust a foreign document written 600 years after the fact, over a local document written 40 years after the fact.
A lot you know about Christian theology.A Christian should be happy and celebrate to know that Jesus died a cursed death on the Cross.
I never understand as to why the Christians burden their own souls with so much sins that for their atonement they want to see their religious leader to die on the Cross.
Can't the Christians stop committing sins so that Jesus don't have to die a mythical death on Cross?
Christians should not be so selfish!!!!.
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That went directly over your head, dropped a reality bomb...Thanks for your appreciation and accepting the truth.
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