This is how I see the situation after decades of deep Bible study.....
Because Jesus and his apostles warned about an apostasy that was to overtake the church, I believe that the early church "fathers" were the first ones to deviate from his teachings. Since they departed from the true teachings...
Chur, a few kiwis on here I see. ;)
I think the best place to start finding the answers is within the New Testament itself. And I think a good study of the Acts of the Apostles is a good place to start. It kinda fills us in on the many problems the Apostles and early disciples in Christ were...
Up to a point even Bible writers wrote that religious leaders are false - Acts of the Apostles 20:29-30; 2 Peter 2:1-2; 1 Timothy 4:1-3; 2 Timothy 4:3-4; Matthew chapter 23; Matthew 15:9
Those false religious teachers are the composite ' man of sin ' and the ' son of perdition ' (utter...
Hello Kara,
I have read your post and I would really like to comment but seems that the most of your post is about the LDS church and I am clueless so I really can't comment in that regard.
I am not a Christian but I am impressed with some of your conclusions about Jesus peace be upon him...
Hi, my name is Kara and I have been searching for the true church of Christ for about a year now. I do not affiliate myself with any church, but I do have faith in Christ, limiting my search to the Christian denominations. However I am open to hearing all opinions and beliefs, whether they be...
It is true the early Christians had wrong expectations, at least for a time. for example, after Jesus resurrection, his disciples " asked him: Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time? He said to them: It does not belong to you to know the times or seasons that the Father...
yes von551, i think your right in that he has the timing a little skewif. The apostasy began even when the apostles were still alive and we see evidence for that in the their own writings such as :
2Thessalonians2:1-3 However, brothers, respecting the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Here's some biblical scriptures in support of the apostacy. Now what we mean by apostacy is not the Christianity would leave the earth. We believe that apostacy is when some one turns away from gospel. For example if the catholic church is the church that decended directly from the church that...
In the first century C.E., as the apostle Paul relates in his second letter to the Thessalonians, some Christians became excited, thinking that the day of Jehovah was then upon them. But Paul warned that first the great apostasy had to come, and "the man of lawlessness" had to be revealed. (2...
Paul prophesied of the apostacy. 2Thessalonians2:1-3:
document.write(drawVerse(1,97872)); 1 1 NOW we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
document.write(drawVerse(2,97873));2 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind...