RE: 12 Unbelievably Bad Marketers in Jerusalem
January 23, 2017 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2017 at 3:21 pm by Godscreated.)
(January 23, 2017 at 7:40 am)Firefighter01 Wrote:(January 23, 2017 at 5:34 am)Godschild Wrote: The first sermon Peter preached resulted in 5000 new Christians. Christianity spread quickly throughout the known world of that time. Paul was at the stoning of Stephen a Jewish believer, this was most likely God's beginning work on Paul's spirit. So you see the chosen disciples had a huge effect on the spread of Christianity. The real truth of this matter doesn't begin with what the disciples were doing, the truth is what God was doing through them and they knew this to be the truth, it is conveyed in the NT.As if anyone could work out that exactly 5,000 men instantly believed after hearing one sermon! It's just an empty assertion.
GC
They would have all been baptized, easy enough to count them at that time, a practical way of knowing.
GC
(January 23, 2017 at 10:24 am)Crossless1 Wrote:(January 23, 2017 at 7:40 am)Firefighter01 Wrote: As if anyone could work out that exactly 5,000 men instantly believed after hearing one sermon! It's just an empty assertion.
Perhaps they gave Peter their money. Peter was big on that, apparently.
Just ask Ananias and Sapphira.
You've misunderstood the story, Peter told them it was their money to do with as they wanted, they tried to fool the Holy Spirit and the church by giving part of the money and hiding the fact by saying they had given it all.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
