TIMELESS TRUTHS OF JESUS CHRIST

Legend for Cells

T1. Jesus is the Son of God           Mt 16:16; Jn 10:36

T11. No one knows the Father except the Son and those revealed Mt 11:27b; Lk 10:22b

W = Wrote explicitly on this teaching

T2. Jesus is only begotten Son of God Jn 3:16,18

T12. Father and Son are distinct

I = Implied as true, or opposite is false

T3. The deity of Jesus our Lord     Jn 1:1; 8:58; 20:28

T13. The Word was distinct from the Father at Creation Ps 33:6; Jn 1:1,3

N = Implied since accepted Nicene Creed

T4. Jesus is the Word of God          Jn 1:1; Rev 19:13

T14. Jesus in the bosom of the Father Jn 1:12

m = Mixed: some agree others did not

T5. The Son from ages past Jn 1:1-3

T15. An Equality of the Father and Son

P = Partial (example: Hermas T7:  the Son is older than all creatures

T6. All things were created through Christ Jn 1:3

T16. Phrase “God the Son”

T7. Jesus obedient/subject to the Father 1 Cor 15:28

T17. Specifically “Jesus” is the Only-Begotten/Son/ Word / Son of man

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T8. Worship, praise, glorify Jesus Jn9:38;Heb1:6;Rev

T18. Specifically “Jesus Christ” is the Only-Begotten/Son

X = Disagree

T9. Inseparable/Father in Son or the Son in Father

T19. Specifically “Christ” is the Only-Begotten/Son/Son of man

blank = not researched yet

T10. Jesus at right-hand of God/the Father Acts 7:56

T20. Specifically the Son is God

Writer totals include W’s & I’s, but not P’s

Christian writer, heretic, or Bible manuscript

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Nero & Domitian persecute Christians

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est. 500K Christians. Labeled atheists; killed for refusing to worship emperor/idols

Clement of Rome (wrote 1 Clement)

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Trajan persecutes Christians

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Answered Pliny the Younger’s letter. Christians not hunted, but killed if found.

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Hadrian persecutes Christians and Jews

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Hadrian loved Greek culture; he persecuted both Jewish & Christian people.

Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

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Bar Cochba persecutes Christians

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Christians persecuted in Israel because they would not join Bar Cochba’s revolt.

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p98 Revelation 1:13-2:1 (9 verses)

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First churches in Morocco, Portugal, & south Germany

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Polycarp, disciple of John, to the Philippians

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The Epistle of the Apostles. Against Cerinthus, Simon, and Gnostics. Canonical in the Ethiopic Orthodox Tawahedo Church

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Leucius Charinus Acts of John

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Gospel of Mary (ms. p463 is 200-250 A.D.)

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Justin Martyr, philosopher and apologist

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Marcion of Pontus, pupil of Cerdo/Cerdon. Apelles & Prepon from Marcion.

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 Gnostics believed Creator was evil or foolish, rejected Old T., mixed in paganism

Menander then Satorninos/Saturnilus (ascetic Gnostics)

c.150-4th cen.

Cerdo & Menander from Simon in Acts. Encratite gnostics came from Saturnilus.

Dionysius of Corinth (wrote against Marcion)

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First Christians in Austria

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Basilides & his pupil Isidorus, changed from Menander 's teaching

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p66 Bodmer II Papyri - 92% of John (817 verses)

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p90 Jn 18:36-19:7 (11 verses)

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Christians of Vienna and Lugdunum (Lyons)

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Athenagoras (apologist)

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Persecution of Marcus Aurelius

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Aurelius was a Stoic philosopher. Persecution mainly in Gaul, ended when he died

Melito/Meleto of Sardis (Quartodecimian)

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Christians warning about Ebionites

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Pantaenus of Alexandria traveled to India

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Gospel of Peter (Serapion finally against this)

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Christians in Bactria, Hindu Kush, and Kurdistan

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p32 (=P. Rylands 5) Titus 1:1-15; 2:3-8 (21 verses)

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Gaius of Rome started the Alogi heresy

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Claimed the Gospel of John and Revelation were by Cerinthus, not John

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An estimated 2 million Christians

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Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs -died 180 A.D.

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Sabellian heresy (Praxeas, Noetus)

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Patripassians believed the Father, Son, & Spirit were one person

Zephyrinus and Callistus of Rome

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God came upon the human man Jesus. Callistus excommunicated Sabellius.

Persecution of Septimus Severus

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est. 2M Christians. A Christian helped him when ill, but did not repeal existing laws

Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas

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Bardaisan/Bardesan of Syria (heretical). Against Marcion & Valentinus.

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Hippolytus, pupil of Irenaeus (undisputed)

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First empire-wide persecution, but only of clergy. It stopped when he was killed.

Theodotus the probable Montanist

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Narrative of Zosimus

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Julius Africanus (undisputed writings)

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Ebionite Protoevangelium of James

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Heraclas of Alexandria 1st to be called a pope

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No Roman bishop called a pope until the Council of Arles I in 314 A.D., Next was 347 A.D.. Siricius c.384-399 was the first Roman bishop to call himself a pope.

p137 Mk 1:7-9,16-18

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p13 Heb 2:14-5:5;10:8-22;10:29-11:13;etc. 114 verses

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p5 Jn 1:23-31,33-40; 16:14-20;20:11-17,19-20,22-25

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p22 Jn 15:25-16:2; 16:21-32 (17 verses)

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p91 Acts 2:30-37; 2:46-47; 3:1-2

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p118 Rom 15:26-27,32-33; 16:1,4-7,11-12

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p119 Jn 1:21-28,33-38,42-44

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p121 Jn 19:17-19,25-26

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p129 1 Cor 7:36-39;8:10;9:3,14-17;9:27-10:6

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