who wrote the 4gospels? what's the accountability?
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Many scholars believe that they were not written by the attributed authors. If disciples had intentions of writing accounts they would have written them immediately rather than waiting several decades. It would be like someone today finally getting around to write about WWII. Would that make sense? I think the gospels are a mixture of truth and mythology.
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I know and to be a gospel it had to be written by one of the disciples or their assistant.  The gos[pel of Thomas, Judas etc, were NOT written by them.  The stuff that people will believe!
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I've been slowly studying it for a long period of time, picking up pieces here and there.  I can't give you a complete account, but I can give you a rundown:\n\nThe vessel that God used to initiate this "movement" was John Wesley.  His brother and helper was Charles Wesley, the famous hymn writer.  \n\nEngland at this time had come past the Reformation...not very changed, because of all the politics involved (such as King Henry VIII dabbling into making his own "Anglican" church).  With a few exceptions (such as John Knox) the Reformation in England had man's handprints all over it...\n\nThus, God's spirit was hindered from moving and the moral atmosphere was poor both inside and outside the Church.  \n\nGod used John Wesley to preach "holiness" to his listeners and had a "method" for seeking God.  This was not a Martin Luther "We are justified by faith" movement (which I also believe God initiated), but a "We need to clean up our act" movement.  \n\nIronically, while Wesley was intensely protestant, some saw him as a traitor trying to bring back the law, tradition and rituality of the catholic church.  Wesley did not bring in dead ritual and men's traditions; He sought God's will with a fury on moral issues and preached his findings to his adherents.  Also note that on certain issues he was incredibly liberal compared to his times:  when pastors wouldn't let him preach in their buildings, he simply preached in fields!  This was NOT conventional.\n\nMany in England were violently opposed to these new religious fanatics called "Methodists" because things changed wherever they went...  If you hired a Methodist housemaid, you'd risk loosing members of your family and others to their energetic proselyting and you would feel convicted for your actions!  God forbid...\n\nThus is a very rough and superficial layout.  Hope it helped!  Any questions, just e-mail me.\n\nKeep in mind that when these movements took place, they had God pushing them forward and were not the dry lifeless denominations you see today; e.g. Lutheran, Methodist, etc.  Perhaps we (the Christian church as a whole) should seek God for what His "movement" would be in *this* hour instead of becoming stale by having our worship revolve around past movements...  :)
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CS Lewis wrote it.\nIt is an allegory about the  purpose of Jesus Christ
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The primary question, as written, demands an answer of "nothing." There is a considerable amount of written text attributed to Jesus' followers, though perhaps to no one who actually knew him. But I've yet to run across anything that claims Jesus' own authorship.
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I read a book not too many years ago about the life of George Mueller.  One thing that struck me was that he kept a record of his prayers.  He would record the prayer request, then leave a space for the answer.  He would pray continually until he received an answer to that prayer.\n\nFour years ago, I began keeping a journal just like he did, and as I learned that the kinds of prayers God answered the most (or the best) were those for or about others and their needs.  Yes, even many of my selfish ones were answered.  Even now, I can point to a record that shows clearly what prayers have been answered, and those that still have gone unanswered.  I have 7 unanswered prayers right now, four of which are from years prior to 2006.  God has been so faithful in answering prayer.  The ones unanswered are all recent prayers, beginning in the month of May, not including those prior to 2006.\n\nIt has been a wonderful blessing to see my history of prayer with God, and even when He has answered "no," He has made up for any disappointment I've had by doing something different/better.
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why don't you write them. and its Jeanie Dixon.\n\nand they are a cult, by the way
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honey,that's a bit too hard.Is that really your homework?? gee..who wrote it? John Ashberry.Please tell us who wrote it.
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Ah Chick. ROFL!!!! He's the one that put out a pamphlet that claimed witches really do fly on brooms.  At one time, some Christians were putting out that the WWW for world wide web, was actually 666 in disguise.  These are the people who have a lot of time on their hands and over-active imaginations.
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Bom Bom by The Living Things. Thanx 4 asking...I actually wanted to know also!!!
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guillibleponceyouare @sorums.net
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the age of accountability is a man made addition to scripture ensuring that babies who die don't go to Hell.  Technically all have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23 NIV) including children.  The idea that an "innocent"* child would be banished to Hell makes no sense from a loving and caring God, but we have to remember He is also a just God who cannot go back on his word.  "Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6 NIV) which is plainly stating that unless you follow Him, you are kept seperate from the Father.  There is no other way, according to Jesus, meaning that there is no alternate route to the Father.  Black and white.  No grey.  Then, in order to make ourselves feel better about God, we added this "age of accountability" to Christian theology, forgetting all about the devastation He ordered in the Old Testement.  He is not as concerned with you getting to Heaven as some would like to believe.  Finally, if there were such a thing as "age of accountability," wouldn't the best thing a good Christian could do be to kill infants and prevent their souls from even standing the chance of being banished to Hell?  It's perverted, I know!\n\n\n*to understand my argument you have to realize that according to the Bible no child is innocent or free from sin.  We're born into it.
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contact www.authorhouse.com\nthat's who I went with and tell them that I sent you
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I read about a third and stopped.  Dr. Bock is a competent writer but it's very old ground that's been plowed over for two hundred years and he's added absolutely nothing new with one more traditionalist book for the laity. \n\nI think you can pretty much sum up the psuedepigrapha with one admittedly subjective distinction: the non-canonical material is even sillier than the material that made it in, and it doesn't take more than a long magazine article to explain what it is and why it's not canonicial.
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There are four "accepted" Gospells, that you will find in the King James Version of the New Testement.  If you want to get into the Gnosstic Gospells ~ there are as many as 30 KNOWN Gospells, to include the Gospell of Mary, The Gospell of Thomas, and now the much publisied Gospel of Judas. \n\nHowever, if you really want to tie things up, I would recommend a book entitled "The Arm of Hiram" \n\n*WARNING*  Should you read the "Arm of Hiram" ~ you're NOT going to like what you're going to read.  In it, it ties the Shroud of Turin, the Knights Templar, The Freemasons, the Gnosstic Gospels, the story of Christ up in one neat little package.  \n\nThe Roman Cahtolic Bible, the Orthodox Bibles, and the King James version of the Bible was meant for the un-educatd, illiterate masses.  The Gnosstic Gospels were meant for the more initated, educated, and informed ~ that is to say the more enlightened people ~ thus the Illuminati.  Be careful of where you thread with this ~ The more your dig ~ the deeper you get.  And, it is deep.  Pity that the Libary of Alexander was destroyed by the Romans ~ which if you study Roman strategty ~ goes against everything that they did when the conquered a city.  The first thing they did ~ was NOT to burn a city's library ~ but to seize it and make it safe ~ so why did they burn the library of Alexander?  \n\nEverything in the Bible is indeed true ~ however its like reading the Cliff Notes version or at best the Reader's Digest condensed version.  Its as I said intended for the un-educated, the illietrate, the common man, the masses.  \n\nWhen you see the most base of televanglist on television ~ this is the most base of people appealing to the simplest of people ~ which is why Jessie Ventura ~ the former Governor and Navy Seal was quoated as saying "Christian's are simple-minded people"\n\nTo give you but a taste ~ we're not earthly beings having a spiritual expiernce ~ we're spiritual beings having an earthly experience.  Who we are ~  what we are ~ is not of this Earth.  We are all children of God, and therefore gods ~ which is why Christ spoke of having but the faith of a mustard seed ~  and you can move mountains.  (The Book of Seth)  We come to this world~ to learn, to grow, to experience ~ but the experiment has gone awire ~ and we have forgotten who and of what we are.  What we truly are. \n\nIt can be proven mathematically ~ that an person who is of an eighth dimesion can walk through solid walls, solid objects.  This isn't speculation, nor falacy. Its pure math. Which is the absolute language of the universe.  An eigth dimesional person (Discory Magazine ~ I forget the year and edition) can walk through solid object in a three dimesional world.  \n\nThere is also the "Physics of Immortainlity"  another book I've read. Probally out of print.  A physicist, with a PhD in Nuclear Physics, who was trying to complete Einstien's "Unified Field" theory and who started out as an atheist ~ became a Christian based upon pure mathematics and physics.  \n\nYOU THREAD WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO GO!
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Title: Artist: LESS THAN JAKE Song: Motown Never Sounded So Good Album: ANTHEM\nID: 45343\nDate and time (posted): 2004-08-02 13:26:47\nTo comment on this (Or read other comments), Please scroll down  \nMotown Never Sounded So Good lyrics\n\n\n[Roger:] \nSo you say, all your white flags are up and that you've had enough and that you were tired of collecting dust, you say everything always looks the same and you made your brand new face to match your brand new place, you say all your distress calls have gone out and your ship is going down \n\n[Pre-chorus] \n[Chris:] \nWell I say it to myself all the time, \n"Stop living half and a life and stop feeling like I'm half alive." \n\n[Chorus] \n[Roger:] \nI can't get enough, I'm not satisfied, I've wasted my time with this daily grind, in single file line, is this real life, I've been telling myself sometimes, what matters is on the inside. \n\n[Roger:] \nDo you remember when we had all the answers, and can you really remember when we wished for anything better, just to feel like it's been forever, does it feel like a broken record, a head full of yesterdays, you keep wishing your life away, you can't keep looking over you own shoulder, things'll never look up unless you start to move forward. \n\n[Pre-chorus] \n\n[Chorus] \n\n[Chorus 2] \n[Roger:] \nI can't get enough, I'm not satisfied, I've wasted my time with this daily grind, I can't get enough, I'm just getting by, I can't stand this design for our bitter lives, I keep feeling lost and I'm not satisfied with traffic and turnpikes and these tired eyes \n\n[Chorus]
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Here's one you missed - guilt.  How many people have you seen come out of prison spouting jesus?  Look at Gary Busey (not prison, but he WAS a bad boy).\n\nMy friend proposed a theory that many of the most vociferous bible thumpers have the longest rap sheets.\n\nPersonally, I think prison is the NEW house of god.