Re: Purgatory?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:00:49 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (€ R.L. Measures)
> wrote:
> 
> 
> >> >**  Spring, AD325:  Ritual cannibalistic sacrifice is spliced into the new
> >> >faith to make it more palatable to members of Rome's "pagan" churches.  
> >> >AD380, the new faith replaces paganism as the official state religion of
> >> >Rome and Sunday replaces Saturday as the official sabbath.
> >> 
> >> Is that directly from Laraine Boettner's book?
> >
> >€  no
> >> 
> >> I wonder how it came about that for three centuries God's Church
> >> disobeyed Him in His command to "do this in my memory?"
> >
> >€  The NT was not published until over a millennium later.  There was
> >ample opportunity for revision.  Without doing "this in my memory", there
> >would be no compelling reason to attend church.  
> 
> So let me get this straight -- you are asserting that the Gospels
> themselves are not reliable? I think we can safely conclude this
> conversation, then. You are on quicksand.

€  agreed.  We can discuss this better on J.-day --  if there is one.   
In the interim, the following book raises some interesting questions about
this subject:  
= =  Crossan, John Dominic. "Jesus, A Revolutionary Biography", 1994,
Harper Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-06-061661-x.

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