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It's been argued that Jesus Himself, cited by St. John in the book of Revelation (written around 95 AD), taught monepiscopacy (the notion of one bishop I examine what can be historically determined about the seven churches of Revelation 1-3 (around 95 AD), whose "angels" have been interpreted to be bishops.

The Ambivalence and Inconsistencies of Protestant Thought on the Earliest "Monarchical" Bishops Protestants, especially Presbyterians and Baptists, who The "anti-Petrine" bias of Protestants leads them to posit that James was bishop of Jerusalem in the 1st century: when single bishops supposedly didn't exist.

This word study was a very enlightening exercise.  There are many occasions in which a word in Hebrew has many different meanings in English.  In this

I will be resolving all of the alleged “contradictions” from the web page entitled “194 CONTRADICTIONS, New Testament.” It’s perpetually striking to A Bible skeptic has come up with 194 alleged biblical “contradictions” (usually recycled from old lists). I systematically went through the entire list and refuted each one.

PART 11 CHURCH TEACHINGS TO LEARN ABOUT TEACHINGS THAT PREVENT A PERSON FROM RECEIVING THE INDWELLING SPIRIT DOCTRINES OF DESTRUCTION CHRIST IS NOT THE MESSIAH, I AM I was recently watching T.V. about someone who called himself Yahweh Ben Yahweh...

John 6:1-21 Proverbs 14:32-33 The broken Dagon statue in the Temple of Ashdod in front of the Ark of the Covenant (1Sam 5: 1-5 – Merian’s  Iconic Biblicae, Frankfurt 1625-30) I Samuel 6:3 – The Philistine priests were wiser than the Israelite priests – they knew they had sinned and needed reconciliation. I Samuel 6:6 – Apparently word got around about the Egyptians. I Samuel 6:15 – Scholars have noted the differences between the Israelites and the Philistines in Beth-Shemesh by t...

Proverbs 30:15-16  Haggai 1:1 – This is the same year as Ezra 4:24 (520 BC). Haggai is the first prophet to the returned remnant. We’ve read about Zerubbabel and Joshua in Ezra 3:2. Haggai 1:4 – Interesting priorities – it wasn’t time to build the LORD’s house, but it was to build “cieled houses.” This was “roofed with costly woods” – and some think “with the very cedar provided for the rebuilding of the temple” (Ezra 3:7). (Pulpit Commentary). Haggai 1:5-7 – F...