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What you wrote offers a meaning for Jesus words but I am still wondering why he said it. Sure Peter was encouraged not to focus on John but why did Jesu say "If I want him to live until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!"
Crypto currencies can be rather unpredictable.
Luna is down 99% Thursday, falling to under $0.02 per coin.
The cryptocurrency is linked to stablecoin TerraUSD, which lost its US dollar peg this week.
Luna and Terra's slide come as cryptocurrency markets plummet in a broad sell-off.
Luna is...
The Council of Rome was a meeting of Christian Church officials and theologians which took place in 382 under the authority of the bishop of Rome, Damasus I. The previous year, the Emperor Theodosius I had appointed the "dark horse" candidate Nectarius Archbishop of Constantinople. The bishops...
The Council of Hippo was an early Christian church council that took place in AD 393. It is one of the first councils where the bishops were divided into two groups, Eastern and Western. The members of the council are not entirely clear but it is believed that there were about a hundred bishops...
@Josiah, your acerbic querulous tone almost always discourages me from replying to your long and often repeated posts.
The churches that chose 73 books are the north African churches and the churches in Rome and many others who replied on the Roman churches for guidance.
I have a Trinitarian Bible Society KJV - 66 books only, alas - with 200,000 cross references according to the publisher. But I noticed the absence of cross references to the deuterocanonical books which is a shame because any reader of the new testament would benefit from seeing which new...
At one time, back in the 19th century, the Catholic Church regarded the Bible Societies as anti-Catholic. They were in fact quite anti-Catholic during part of the 19th Century and maybe beyond.
Peter turned around and saw behind him that other disciple, whom Jesus loved—the one who had leaned close to Jesus at the meal and had asked, "Lord, who is going to betray you?" When Peter saw him, he asked Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" Jesus answered him, "If I want him to live until I...
What you wrote would have some weight had those who decided what books are canonical agreed with it but they did not. They chose 73 books as canonical. Those 73 books are the ones in Guttenberg's bible and in countless manuscript bibles and also, in whole or in part, in the ancient manuscripts...
It is notoriously difficult to gain converts to Christ in cultures that have a well defined and attractive afterlife teaching in their religions. Examples are Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some others. If this observation is correct then can Christians seriously propose that the Holy...