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1 | was luke a christian? | Philem 1:24 | DocTrinsograce | 148679 | ||
Hi, Michael! You wrote, "Luke and Acts may have been written by him as the defense of Paul in Rome." I believe this is a theory proposed in the last couple of years in a book by John Mauck (neither Bible scholar nor historian). It is important to recognize that Mauk's speculation is simply that. There is an ancient tradition that Theophilus (Luke 1:3 and Acts 1:1) was a friend of Luke's from Antioch. In the absence of evidence (Scriptural or otherwise), the common understanding of the believers of old is probably much more reliable. Modernity has alway seen new ideas as superior to old ideas. Although the arguments behind that assumption are eristic at best, they do seem to sell more books! :-) In Him, Doc PS Michael, you've been on the forum a long time. Why not tell us about yourself in your profile? |
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2 | was luke a christian? | Philem 1:24 | Hank | 148748 | ||
Hi, Doc : Eristic indeed! The seeds of the polemic are fertile and persistent! Polemics abounded in the age of the prophets, and in the age of the apostles, and they abound still. Who knows what their ideas sold in olden times. Scrolls? But you're right: they sell books in our time. And we might add magazines, movies and TV specials to the list. These money-mad secular hucksters have the temerity to belie God's word and profane the sacred, unabashedly calling their flights of fantasy documentaries. At the very least they should have the intellectual honesty to advertise their wares as being pure fiction, because clearly they are nothing more than that. --Hank | ||||||
3 | was luke a christian? | Philem 1:24 | DocTrinsograce | 148758 | ||
Hmmm... I wonder if there was a Nile.com where one could order the latest scrolls. I'm sure there must have been used scroll stores all over the place. But, were there scroll-of-the-month clubs? Do you think avid readers might have been called "scrollish" or "scroll-worms?" Maybe you could figure out how much to pay for a second-hand chariot by looking up its Kelley Blue Scroll value? You always give me so much to think about, Hank! :-) |
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