they think peter went to babylon
Babylon didn't exist in the days of Peter.
Why would they think that?
they think peter went to babylon
If you didn't delete it, I apologize.
I tried searching for it, and couldn't find it.
Could you tell us again about the upside down pyramid?
Have you considered going home to Rome?
I was wrong,
Tettle's reply:Philo [The Embassy to Gaius, 36] and Josephus [Antiquities, 15.2.2; 23.12] inform us that Babylon contained a great many Jews in the apostolic age (whereas those at Rome were comparatively few, about eight thousand [Josephus, Antiquities, 17.11]); so it would naturally be visited by the apostle of the circumcision. It was the headquarters of those whom he had so successfully addressed on Pentecost, Ac 2:9, Jewish "Parthians … dwellers in Mesopotamia" (the Parthians were then masters of Mesopotamian Babylon); these he ministered to in person.
Shocking words from a MADists !!!!!!
:chuckle:
But that's ok, we're all wrong at times.
The earliest distinct authority for Peter's martyrdom at Rome is Dionysius, bishop of Corinth, in the latter half of the second century. The desirableness of representing Peter and Paul, the two leading apostles, as together founding the Church of the metropolis, seems to have originated the tradition.
Clement of Rome [First Epistle to the Corinthians, 4.5], often quoted for, is really against it. He mentions Paul and Peter together, but makes it as a distinguishing circumstance of Paul that he preached both in the East and West, implying that Peter never was in the West [which, as far as Scripture is concerned, is true].
In 2Pe 1:14, he says, "I must shortly put off this tabernacle," implying his martyrdom was near, yet he makes no allusion to Rome, or any intention of his visiting it.
You're wrong all the time. You still won't even say what we must do to be saved.
Like I said, if you want to see a bunch of MADists run and hide, just ask them who Romans was written to.
Tettle's reply:
Yeah, well, what does Josephus know. It's not like he was inspired. Except when he described 70. There he was inspired. Not here.
Who was James written to?
The city of Babylon didn't exist in Peter's lifetime.
who was romans written to?
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints
Hebrews.
If you want to start basing books of the NT by who they are written to in the salutations, then you won't find too many written to you.
Is 1 Timothy for you?
Is your name Timothy?
(1 Tim 1:2) To Timothy my true son in the faith:...
it is hard to follow mad
Jeremiah 31:31 "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah--Paul didn't teach MAD.
Paul was a minister of the new covenant.
MAD denies the new covenant is even in place.
What MAD teaches is in direct opposition to what the Apostle Paul taught.
You keep missing the point.
The early church fathers were all over the place on their doctrinal positions.
However, what Darby invented in the mid 1800's cannot be found in any writings from the early church fathers.
Preterism on the other hand can be found in almost all of the early church fathers in some form, despite the fact that a lot of them were chiliasists (millennialists)
Not seeing your difficulty here.