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Secret hiding place for ancient christians
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Secret hiding place for ancient christians
Discovered in Syria: 'This Place is So Special'

Quote:Archaeologists have found a secret passageway where early Christians used to hide to escape Roman persecution.


http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2018/may/this-place-is-so-special-secret-hiding-place-for-ancient-christians-discovered-in-syria
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RE: Secret hiding place for ancient christians
Quote:Sheko believes the secret gathering places date back to the 3rd and 4th century AD.

One wonders what that is based on.  The article is suspiciously vague.
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RE: Secret hiding place for ancient christians
you mean hiding place for hippy tax evading occultists!
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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What a great pity they didn't find a permanent one.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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RE: Secret hiding place for ancient christians
(May 10, 2018 at 12:18 am)Kit Wrote: Discovered in Syria: 'This Place is So Special'

Quote:Archaeologists have found a secret passageway where early Christians used to hide to escape Roman persecution.


http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2018/may/this-place-is-so-special-secret-hiding-place-for-ancient-christians-discovered-in-syria

Aren't CBN the crowd who still believe Noah's Ark is on Mt Ararat?

PS 3rd and 4th century was about the time the chisters came into power in the Empire so why would they be hiding then? Unless they were gnostic heretics.
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RE: Secret hiding place for ancient christians
Why would you need to hide if God is protecting you? Had he grown bored of his loyal followers already?
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RE: Secret hiding place for ancient christians
Probably hiding from other Christians.
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Jesus himself also used to hide in fear although he loved telling people not to be afraid because God will protect them like in Luke 12:4 "Be not afraid of them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do."

And yet Jesus lacked courage and on numerous occasions did not think his dad would protect him or that the big prophecy of him dying on the cross will come true. Like in Matthew 12:14-16 "Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him .... And he charged them that they should not make him known."
Jesus wanted to keep his hideout a secret so that he doesn't get killed.

Or in John 7:1 "After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him."
Again, Jesus could not protect himself nor he had the faith that almighty dad will protect him.

John 11:53-54, "Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death, Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness."
What a scared little bitch!

John 8:59 "Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself."
You don't hide from what you don't fear.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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(May 10, 2018 at 6:43 am)chimp3 Wrote: Probably hiding from other Christians.

Lol yeah, chasing them down with errata!
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