IGNORANCE IN CHRISTIANITY MAKES IT WEAK! FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA - JULY 15, 2015 - 3:34 PM

IGNORANCE IN CHRISTIANITY MAKES IT WEAK! FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA - JULY 15, 2015

    

 MANY YEARS AGO I LIVED IN WASH., D.C. AND USED TO VISIT THE CATHOLIC LIBRARY OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, OLDEST CATHOLIC AND JESUIT UNIVERSITY IN AMERICA AND ESTABLISHED BACK IN 1789. I was interested in seeing their collection of early writings of Christianity which I found to be a small section of books in their large collection of books. The one book that had some good research material in it on the old writings of first Christianity was :

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1669–22 July 1734) was an English lawyer and politician, who became lord ... In his youth he was interested in early church history, and published anonymously in 1691 An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity and Worship of the Primitive Church that .... Create a book · Download as PDF · Printable version ...

An inquiry into the constitution, discipline, unity, and worship of the primitive church : that flourished within the first three hundred years after Christ

by King, Peter King, Lord, 1669-1734  

     This was the one book of quality based upon early writings of Christianity for the first 300 years that I found in this section of the Georgetown University library. He belonged to the Church of England, but wrote a quality historical study of early Christianity for the first three centuries and would have been a credit to the Catholic Church or any Protestant church that he belonged to. The Methodist Church reprinted his book in 1841 but it is a valuable early Christian reference book for any branch of Christianity today to study. His material collected in this book was brilliant research work on early Christian history. I noticed a sad note in this collection of books there at Georgetown University. This university was for Catholic scholars from across America and I saw many of the books with something of early Christian writings in them were signed out maybe once each one year or two years which meant that the students almost never read any of them while attending this university.

      While I assume that some Catholic scholars elsewhere were more seriously interested in early Christian writings that those apparently attending Georgetown University back when I visited this library of theirs, this made it understandable where I saw comments of some Catholic bishops in America who answered Protestant questions with poor quality answers to what they asked about. A typical answer to why the Catholics prayed on Sunday was that they changed the day from Saturday to Sunday later on by authority of some Catholic bishops. A nonsense answer and based upon poor scholarship on their part.

     I later had a large private collection of mine own of the early writings of Christianity and the correct answer to the Protestant question is directly answered in the New Testament itself. Acts 20:7 and 1 Cor. 16:2  both state that the main Christian worship was on Sunday. And the Apostle Paul representing the authority of the Council of Jerusalem representing the Apostles of Jesus Christ there including the Apostle Peter would have denounced the church worship services on Sunday as the main weekly worship day instead of the Jewish Saturday if this practice was not approved of by the Apostles of Jesus Christ who were still alive then. It was the Apostles of Jesus Christ then and not later Catholic bishops who set up Sunday as the main worship day for all the Christian churches. If you read the early Christian writings of how we were under a new covenant now which replaced the Old Testament Covent, you would then understand why it was preferred to use Sunday as the weekly main worship day for the Christians led by the Apostles of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament itself had the prophecy how the day would come with the Messiah when the Old Covenant would be replaced by a New Covenant from God. The early Church liked to often refer to this Old Testament prophecy to explain why they did what they did under the New Covenant of Jesus Christ.

      Bible scholars of both the Protestant and Catholic side were weakened in effective Christian scholarship by not thinking it necessary to read in depth the early Christian writings of the first three centuries A.D. I give as an example how Grant Jeffrey, a Protestant scholar, discovered this flaw of both Protestant and Catholic scholarship as to when Jesus Christ was

historically born. They had read from Josephus's Antiquities Of The Jews about the lunar eclipse shortly around when Herod the Great died and concluded that Jesus Christ was born 5 B.C. or earlier. Grant Jeffrey found the missing lunar eclipse 1 B.C. in astronomy the other scholars had failed to find out about and so Grant Jeffrey concluded with scholastic cunning that Jesus Christ was likely born in 2 B.C. or one year forward or backward from this. I agreed with the conclusion of Grant Jeffrey because early Christian writings said that Jesus Christ was born 28 years after the death of Cleopatra of Egypt. History says that she died in 30 B.C. and subtract 28 years off from that and with Roman math which I call stick math Jesus Christ should have been born in 2 B.C. and with a few months variation could have been 1 B.C. or else 3 B.C. the same position as Grant Jeffrey when alive. I liked him as a Christian scholar because he thought things through which many Christian scholars did not!

     One Protestant church claimed that making the sign of the cross was a "pagan" practice invented by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. Now because I read the early Christian writings which too many Bible scholars never read I noticed in one of the writings of Tertullian around 200 A.D. where the Christians practiced the "ancient" custom of making the sign of the cross which was apparently a way Christians could identify themselves with other Christians while the pagans did not know that Christians were signaling other Christians there around them that they were Christians too.

      And I read of another "pagan" practice that the Roman Catholic Church invented celebrating the birthday of Jesus Christ on December 25 in the Middle Ages and that Jesus Christ was not born in that time period of the year. They wrote that "Christmas" was started in the Middle Ages as an invented fictional celebration of when Jesus Christ was born. In the early Christian Church across the Roman Empire they celebrated soon after the death of Jesus Christ "The Feast of the Nativity" for the birthday of Jesus Christ. The Church of Rome celebrated Dec. 25 from the early times on and the Church in the East celebrated a slightly different date. Then somewhere around 320 years or so after Jesus died, St. Chrysostom, the "golden orator" of Christianity in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire announced with great excitement that a delegation from the Church of the East from Constantinople had visited Rome and found in the ancient records of the Imperial Tax Archives of Rome the birthday of Jesus Christ when Joseph and Mary visited Bethlehem for the tax census and Jesus was born on Dec. 25 as claimed by the Church at Rome.

     I found that the Pharisees of Israel then thought that the Roman solar calendar was more accurate than the Jewish lunar calendar and so at that time coordinated their calendar with the Roman Calendar. So Jesus Christ would have been born on the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah which is the Jewish Feast of Lights and symbolizes that God dwells among us. That is why the religious pilgrims had the inn full as they were going to worship at the Temple at Jerusalem a few miles away. And the shepherds were selling their lambs to the pilgrims if they wanted a sacrifice at the Temple for themselves. And what in early Christianity was called "The Feast Of the Nativity" which celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ was celebrated from early Christianity on and mentioned in the "Constitutions Of the Holy Apostles" maybe around 330 to 400 A.D. as having been on Hanukkah on the Jewish religious calendar. A Jewish convert to Christianity wrote the date in those writings based upon the Jewish religious calendar.

     The Church at Antioch was founded by the Apostle Peter and grew into the Greek Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, etc. starting from the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. The Church at Rome which became the bigger half of Christianity starting from then was started by Peter and Paul in Rome. So the Apostle Peter established the main two branches of the Christian Church on earth and also called the Catholic Church meaning in Latin the Universal Church.

     Early catacomb writings on tombs of Christians buried at Rome, etc. around 100 A.D. and afterwards asked the living to pray for their dead souls to help them in the hereafter. And Christians back then in some of their liturgies asked the dead martyrs to pray for the living Christians on earth. There is a section of early Christian teachings here that are evaded by many Christian scholars today. I found early Christian scholarship higher grade than almost any Bible scholarship I see today. They were thorough in their use of Bible verses, etc. and tied the knots of logic normally better than many Christian scholars today.

     Romans 14 & 15 showed the policy of the Apostle Paul how Christians back then could have different religious conclusions or beliefs on some points and so long as not challenging the main pillars of Christian teachings could be allowed differences on Christian beliefs on non-earth shaking points. By this early Christian policy, you could reunify most of the Christian churches without loss of face of the separated churches.

     There were traditions and ordinances left to the churches by the Apostles of Jesus Christ. Look for reference to this from such as 2 Thes. 2:35 and 3.6, and 1 Cor. 11:2. In bad scholarship, some Protestant scholars misread one New Testament verses and did not read correctly what it was saying about traditions referred to Old Testament issues and not New Testament.

      Both Protestant and Catholic have pretty much dropped one ancient teaching of early Apostolic Christianity. Look it up in search engines about "The Pauling Privilege" on what grounds a Christian could divorce and remarry without sin or forfeiture to right of Holy Communion, etc. And if there is no power to bind or else loose sins in the churches, then why does the New Testament list this religious authority being granted to the churches of Jesus Christ?

      I am aiming for the day when we may invite scholars from all sides of Christianity, heavily use the Early Writings of Apostolic Christianity to undo many misunderstandings that divide Christianity today when this is not necessary, and let's see where we end up. I am totally on the side of early Apostolic Christianity and if you will notice, I step on the toes of either Catholic or Protestant scholars at times when I am unsold on what they claim. 

     By the way, there are massive Miracles of God in Christianity even today and what are the churches doing keeping quiet on stunning Miracles of God which would win nearly all to belief in God? Scared to honor God in our modern society? Two times I had stunning Miracles of God in my own life. I had a broken toe for four years, looked like a bent fishhook and when Evangelist Ronald Coyne of the "Plastic Eye Miracle" prayed for me, my toe bones floated apart which felt incredible and then my broken toe in my left foot was instantly straightened out and healed totally in maybe 30 seconds flat! I told Jesus that I refused medical help on this broken toe and when Jesus was ready, give me a testimonial on it when instantly healed by a miracle of Jesus Christ. I had to wait four years but Jesus honored my prayer through the ministry of Rev. Ronald Coyne who saw with or without plastic eye inserted into his empty right eye socket. He lost his right eye when around 6 years old and was in a startling miracle crusade was instantly healed of his blindness in his empty right eye socket around 7 years old and could then for the rest of his life see with plastic eye or else empty right eye socket. He was written up in Oklahoma when this happened and the startled newspaper reporters stated that they could not explain how he could suddenly see with plastic eye socket or else empty right eye socket when the plastic eye was taken out. 

     The other Miracle of God was when a police officer with the Seneca Police Department who I knew well was mass smashed in a car accident in 1990 and the wife of his partner on the police force called my store to tell how he was so smashed up and the hospital said that he was so smashed up and they did not think that he would live through the day. If he did, he would be paralyzed for life. Not a voice, but an instinct addressed me that said that Jesus would grant me his life if I asked for it. I prayed for him in the name of Jesus Christ and my words came out different than what I had planned. I asked Jesus to live him live and be healed until Jesus returned to earth. At the hospital they were shocked and he was instantly healed of all massive injuries including a leg bone sticking out through the skin  and disconnected from the hip bone. They had reset the leg bone back to connection with the hip bone and suddenly all his injuries disappeared. He walked out of the hospital with the hospital staff and chief surgeon in utter shock when this happened. I sort of asked Jesus later why this incredible Miracle of God occurred. Instinct replied back, Jesus liked me and did not like Christians to criticize me for seeking to practice total Christianity when they did not. This was the sign of Jesus that Jesus stood behind me against Wash., D.C. and other enemies of Christianity in America and elsewhere. The initials of this police officer were L.B. and there is only one police officer in 1990 with this wild accident that he had. This is public record for all the world to verify if you require that. Jesus smiled on me that day to show that Jesus backed me against the enemies of Jesus in America and elsewhere who try to smear any Christian pushing to return to total Apostolic Christianity for all the Protestants and Catholics in America and later elsewhere.

     Many years ago I had one vision from Jesus where I saw America after it had been destroyed by nuclear attack. Jesus told me that I could have stopped this. I understood the message given me. If I acted, I could say America from being annihilated. If I did not act, all of America is scheduled to be destroyed because America would not return to God like the American of 1776. This Pentecostal evangelist sounds like the message given me how to save America from being annihilated during my lifetime. That is why I publicized him.

     Those who are on God's side in America, back me in passage of the Omni Law I show on my national website. Those who do not care what happens to America, their own families, etc., don't back me. For whatever reason which I may not know why, it seems that Jesus likes me and I should be the one representing America when America is to face the pending judgment and wrath of God against America. If I can make promises to God on behalf of the American people that America is now returning seriously to God, God will take my word on behalf of the American people and give you the chance to prove that you intend to straighten out as a people and nation. I understand that I am allowed to bargain with God for a second chance for America with God. I am no messiah, just I always felt the smile of God and God likes me for whatever hidden reason. If God likes me, might as well use this to help out the American people with. God can love a people, but not like them due to their rotten ways or evil that they live for rather than God and good in life. 

      My website is www.fastboomamericaneconomy.com My email is fastboomamericaneconomy.com@gmail.com My mailing address for orders and payments not sent through this website is NIFI, P.O. Box 1465, Seneca, SC 29679 . Make checks, etc. out to NIFI and tell what the payment is for. 

      Yours For God And Country, Erasmus Of America (Pen name for that American who admired Erasmus of the time of Martin Luther who stood for reform of Christianity rather than destruction of Christianity as so many churches stand for today in their lack of loyalty and integrity to Jesus Christ and the Church that He founded close to 2,000 years ago.) 

   P.S. I back good Christian scholars from all official sides of Christianity and there are good scholars from all sides! The Greek Orthodox writer Anthony M. Conaiis made a pretty condensed, concise listing of so many of the early main teachings of Christianity back when the Church at Antioch and the Church at Rome were both founded by the Apostle Peter. His book is "Introducing The Orthodox Church" which while written for the Orthodox Church really is a pretty good summary of so many key teachings of early Christianity. I think it reflects how the Roman Catholic Church did not publicize enough the early Christian writings and teachings when they used the word transubstantiation to explain the spiritual meaning to the Holy Communion of bread and wine. The early Apostolic Christian word used meaning the same thing for Holy Communion was the Latin word "transmutation" meaning changing one substance into another. Read the writings of St. Justin Martyr maybe around 130 A.D. who was the golden orator of Christianity then and he used this word to explain transmutation. Also, he debated the Jewish scholar around this time when the Jewish scholar said that the Christians were heretics to Judaism because they practiced Sunday instead of Saturday for their main worship service weekly. And for Catholic scholars The Scofield Reference Bible clearly identified what New Testament verses showed the Christians now worshipped on Sunday instead of Saturday while the Apostles were still alive. And The Dake's Annotated Reference Bible massively writes up these Bible verses showing Sunday for the key day of worship for Christians and that Constantine the Great contrary to false claims did not change the Christian worship service from Saturday to Sunday. Dake was brilliant in his massive writing on this subject. You see that Protestant scholars sometimes defend Catholic positions better than the Catholics do!