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Aug 7, 2019 · Summary. Paul’s inland travels in Galatia and Phrygia are hard to trace: the narrative in Acts, long subjected to detailed scrutiny, is incomplete at best.
- Paul McKechnie
- 2019
Sep 23, 2023 · Discover what we can learn from a remarkable fragment containing sayings of Jesus. Well over 40 percent of our New Testament papyri come from the single site of Oxyrhynchus. And there’s been a major new discovery.
- Michael J. Kruger
Montanism, also known as the Cataphrygian Heresy and the New Prophecy, was a heretical movement founded by the prophet Montanus that arose in the Christian Church in Phrygia, Asia Minor, in the 2nd century. Subsequently it flourished in the West, principally in Carthage under the leadership of Tertullian in the 3rd century.
Jun 20, 2016 · The text was probably composed in Greek a century or so after Jesus’ crucifixion, then copied into Coptic some two centuries later. As evidence that the real-life Jesus was married, the...
- Who Were The Recipients of Paul’s Epistle to The Galatians?
- Support For The North Galatian Theory
- Support For The South Galatian Theory
- What About The Argument Over Circumcision?
Was Paul’s letter to the Galatians written to south or north Galatia? Why does it even matter? It should be said at the outset that the destination of the letter does not fundamentally change its interpretation. Where it makes a difference is in terms of history. The destination of the letter determines how we correlate Galatians with Acts. For ins...
I begin with arguments supporting the north Galatian theory, but will also note the counter-arguments of those who support the south Galatian theory. 1. The character of the epistles’ Galatians suggest the north. J. B. Lightfoot supports the north Galatian view by contending that the temperament of the Galatians fits with what we know about the Gau...
Though I favor a south Galatian destination, the supporting arguments are not clear enough to remove doubt. We are reminded here of the tentativeness of the historical task since we lack enough information to reach a secure conclusion. If Paul wrote to south Galatia, then he likely wrote to the churches evangelized in Acts 13–14. Here I focus on so...
We have seen above that the most serious objection to the southern theory is that Acts 15:1–35 and Gal 2:1–10 are remarkably similar. At both meetings circumcision was debated and the apostles decided that circumcision was not required for the salvation of Gentiles. Is it possible that the same meeting took place on two occasions? Many defenders of...
Feb 22, 2013 · The New Testament books were written in Greek, even though the books of the Old Testament (the Christian Old Testament, the Jewish Scriptures) were written in Hebrew. The books of the New Testament were all written from during the first century A.D. or shortly thereafter.
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Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
