RE: Someone stole the body!
June 9, 2016 at 7:31 am
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2016 at 7:32 am by Jehanne.)
(June 9, 2016 at 2:30 am)Godschild Wrote:(June 8, 2016 at 4:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Yet another contradiction between Mark, where both thieves mock Jesus, and Luke, where only one does.
Who knows, who cares?! Saint Augustine taught that the thief on the cross in Luke's Gospel was, in fact, baptized sacramentally, albeit, from a distance.
Historically speaking, however, GC, your beliefs about infant baptism are rather novel, because every Church, whether Catholic, Orthodox or Coptic practiced such from the 2nd century on and no theologian until the time of Calvin ever disputed the practice of infant Baptism.
What they practiced is not found in the scriptures anywhere, so they are wrong, simply wrong. Just like the Jews who said a person had to be circumcised to be a Christian, there is no biblical support for that either. These and other things practiced by different denominations are what they want Christianity to be, they are not true because they have no biblical supported. This is one reason we have so many denominations. What makes you think that the one thief that rebuffed the other didn't at first mock Jesus, do you know that the Holy Spirit didn't convict his heart and reveal to him the truth of Jesus. Can you think of a better witness to Christ than one on the cross.By the time of the Councils of Nicaea the writers of the letters that make up the NT were long dead. The writers had no idea that a council would be convened about anything. These men were interested in teaching Christians in the proper way to be Christians and giving a written witness as to how to become a Christian. If they had of desired to write a book they would have gotten together and done so.
GC
GC, there are 27 books of the New Testament; how did the early Church reach that conclusion? As far as the thief on the Cross, you're writing your "own Gospel"; Mark says that both men mocked Jesus, whereas, Luke says that only one did. Luke does not say that one thief mocked Jesus, had a change of heart, and then decided to embrace Jesus' message. Read the text (for "Christ's sake") -- it says that one thief mocked Jesus and was rebuked by the other thief. That's how things happened in Luke's imagination. As for the question of infant Baptism, what did the early Church believe prior to the Gospels and letters of Paul being written? Where did they get their beliefs from?
