Paul's "persecution" of the early Christians?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Please read your favorite religious fairy tale at least once in your life.

I've read it through and studied it for many years and you know nothing about it other than what you glean from other websites.

2 Maccabees 15:38-39 (CEB) = "38 If the story was told effectively, this is what I wanted. But if it was told in a poor and mediocre fashion, this was the best I could do. 39 Just as it is harmful to drink wine or water alone while wine mixed with water is delightful and produces joy, so also may the writing of this story delight the ears of those who encounter this work.

The end."

The Maccabees are not in any of the Protestant Bibles that I know of, that is a Catholic thing they added.

Titus 1:14 (CEV) = "Don’t pay any attention to any of those senseless Jewish stories and human commands. These are made up by people who won’t obey the truth."

Titus 1: 13-14 (ESV) ...Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
This is for Christians who are listening to wrong teaching. When you use the related verse it makes sense. 

This one is for you.
Titus 1:15 (ESV) ..... but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and consciences are defiled.  

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And speaking of Paul and his bull shit, have any of your dead relatives paid you a visit lately?

"1 Corinthians 15:12-19 (CEV) = 12 If we preach that Christ was raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life? 13 If they won’t be raised to life, Christ himself wasn’t raised to life. 14 And if Christ wasn’t raised to life, our message is worthless, and so is your faith. 15 If the dead won’t be raised to life, we have told lies about God by saying that he raised Christ to life, when he really did not.
16 So if the dead won’t be raised to life, Christ wasn’t raised to life. 17 Unless Christ was raised to life, your faith is useless, and you are still living in your sins. 18 And those people who died after putting their faith in him are completely lost. 19 If our hope in Christ is good only for this life, we are worse off than anyone else."

However you got that out of those verses just befuddles me, your understanding of scripture is completely deplorable and useless.

GC

GC,

You are just too damn funny!!

Please get a clue before discussing the Bible because your ignorance makes you look like you're an imbecile.

The Apocrypha was an integral part of the Bible until the 1880s when two Englishmen, Westcott and Hort, decided to dump it.  So, as routinely happens, their malcontent group wrote a new Bible version and did not include the Apocrypha books.  Your precious Protestant Bible is essentially a fake Bible because it omits a significant portion of the original Bible that had been used by everyone since its inception in the 690s.  

The Protestant Bible that you like has only been in existence for about 132 years.

Now there's a couple of ways you can discover that fact for yourself.  The first is to read news articles and the other way is to read old Bibles written before the 1880s and the Bible history.

So to get you started = http://rockingodshouse.com/why-were-14-books-apocrypha-removed-from-the-bible-in-1881/

http://www.chick.com/reading/books/157/157_08a.asp

http://www.antiquebible.com/antique-kjv-...ibles.html

I can give you other links if you want.

You may not do it but will you please stop including every damn post in your replies?  It's a pain in the ass to respond to your rambling posts that include a lot of junk.  Part of the problem is the way the forum software works but sometimes it's a good idea to wait until another poster comments before adding on to your first comment.  

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GC,

I would like to know your thoughts from the following passage from the Acts of Peter.  Do you believe it to be historical; in other words, did it actually happen, and if not, why do you believe that?


http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/te...peter.html

 You should include at least a part of a post of mine because I usually only respond to Alerts, I just happened to read this one. First of all the Acts of Peter are not in the canonized Bible so I've never read them and would not respond to something that I haven't read fully and I respect those who put the canonized Bible together and do not doubt their work through God. I will answer this because you asked but this doesn't mean I will answer all that does not come from the Bible.

First of all I doubt Peter was ever in Rome, he was mainly in Jerusalem and the surrounding area doing work with the Jewish people. Second there is no time line established for these verses so it would be impossible to say if Peter was somewhere else when this supposedly happened. are you trying to get me to comment on the dog speaking, I believe that God did use a donkey and caused it to speak, but as for this dog I can't say the story is outside of what I accept as God's word. Why did you even bring this up it seems it has no real purpose in my view?

GC

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