I'm so amazed. Even in this day and age, there are people, who identify themselves as Christians, and kind of get paid to, but they seem to want to put off that identification.
Every time enemies encourage us to obey the Bible less, the members of the community search inward for comfortable opportunities to obey less.
The end. Thank you for reading!
I just realized for the first time that the word church
was used before Christ died on the cross. For those of you, who don't get the significance of this: this means that the word, church
, as used in the Bible, also included Old Testament believers. Before Christ died, everybody lived under the Old Testament laws. After he died, we lived under New Testament laws. The word, church
however, stayed the same.
This is significant for studying theology of the end times, and theology of the church.
It makes sense, too, because not all of Israel believed, yet there was a community of believers. These small communities became more visible during the exile, because they created synagogues.
