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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...