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Claude.ai’s Prompt: Provide details, dates, and context in about 1000 words for the times when the Christian Church was composed almost entirely of Jews. However, as more Gentiles (non-Jews) converted to Christianity, the percentage of Jewish people in the Christian Church decreased, and, therefore, Christians’ special status as Jewish monotheists, which permitted them to refrain […]
Continue ReadingFrom: “EarlyChirstianWritings.com – A Handbook of Patrology – FIRST PERIOD BEGINNING AND GROWTH OF EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE, THE FATHERS OF THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES, SECTION I, THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS” “Apostolic Fathers” is the name given to a certain number of writers or writings (several of which are anonymous) dating from the end of the first […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT Critical scholars believe that Ananias was a Jewish Christian based on several textual and historical clues in the New Testament, particularly in the descriptions of him in Acts 9 and Acts 22. These clues suggest that Ananias was part of the early movement of Jewish followers of Jesus who maintained strong ties to […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt – What changes in religious practice resulted from the Jewish revolt against Roman rule after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the Bar Kochba revolt, Include changes in Jewish Christianity and later Christianity? The Jewish revolts against Roman rule, particularly the destruction […]
Continue ReadingClick here for an extensive Timeline of Jewish History. Note the dates and events from ChatGPT below have not been reconciled with those in the link timeline. Differences will surely exist. The text below is largely from ChatGPT using different Prompts some of which are cited below. Citation – ChatGPT on 10/27/2024. OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT […]
Continue ReadingThis page contains various extracts from articles, links to videos and collected thoughts by posters at BSA and other places. Thoughts and observations about John the Dipper by folks at BSA. A very good article about John the Baptizer and Jesus is at the BSA Library Why Jesus Went Back to Galilee by Jerome Murphy-O’Connor. A pdf […]
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