Twilight... The Time between the Lights (1 Jan 70 Jahr – 1 Jan 100 Jahr)
Beschreibung:
Like a plane that lost power and fell short of its prophetic destination, the first-century church gradually lost altitude as their love waned, making
a crash landing not far into the second century.
The letter of James, written early in the second century, gives the grim picture of a scattered church consumed with pride, devoid of compassion, riddled with jealousy and backbiting, and driven by lust for wealth, power, and pleasure.
Then there is silence. The New Testament ends. The plane crashed.
If you could see into the spiritual realm, you would see the flaming wreckage strewn over the historical landscape. The message had changed, but who discerned that? Many of the old words were kept, but it didn’t produce a radical life of caring and sharing.
It would have been much better then if the survivors had gone home and left the scene of the wreckage behind. But they didn’t, and something different
and strange happened to the twisted and charred pieces of the movement.
It was as if the various pieces of the wreckage, disconnected from one another as they were, mysteriously took on a life of their own. But it was a
life alien to the life of the fi rst movement.
To be sure, Christianity continued on, growing into the great world religion that it is today, but its nature was drastically different from the church that was established by the Apostles...
Zugefügt zum Band der Zeit:
Appointed Times and Boundaries: The Stone Kingdom and the Rise and Fall of the "Early" Church...
Rise and Fall of the 1st Century Church... 34 AD to 70 AD
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