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NASB | Luke 1:4 so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 1:4 so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught [that is, the history and doctrine of the faith]. |
Subject: Primary purpose of the written Gospels |
Bible Note: Joe, "It seems that some of them were definitely written for that primary purpose." By this do you mean internal catechesis and buidling up, or evangelization or both? And when you say the Jews were the primary recipeients of Matthew do you mean Jewish believers in Christ or the others.? I asked my initial question because it seems to me that many disputes over scripture may grow out of a presumption of belief or failure to disclose by one or more parties whether they are coming from a believeing or non believeing posiiton. And although I have read of those who have been converted merely by the reading of Scripture. But it is a rare situation. It seems more common that those being converted to belief were already somewhere along the path of conversion by the Holy Spirit working through one or more believers and their personal lived and or spoken witness, long before the written Gospel takes hold. In fact they may have read the Gospels more than a few times without receiving the message at all, but the personal encounter with Christ through a personal or community witness opens them up to see what they did not perceive before in the written scripture. It would seem that the preaching of the Gospel in the sense of a personal witness is still the primary means of evangelization in most cases. And only then does the full impact of the written Gospel take hold. I think this also applied in different variation even in family which are raising their children in the faith. Emmaus |
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