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        ✝️📚 History of the
       ☝🏻🕊️ Christian Church
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: April 18, 2024, 6:30 pm
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       Academy[/glow]. In this topic reply thread, the rest of their
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       may post more &#9757;&#127995;&#128330;&#65039; Christian Church
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       In this video, we'll provide a comprehensive look at the church
       in the 1st century up until the 5th century. We'll take a look
       at the church's origins, and its early history during Antiquity.
       When did the Church originate? How was it originated? What were
       the significant events that occurred for the Church during
       Antquity?
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       Excerpt:
       Church history is the study of past events, councils, and crises
       pertaining to the Church. We learn about historical events from
       multiple resources and perspectives.
       For example, we learn about the birth of the early Church from
       the book of Acts.
       We can learn about the persecuted Church from Roman records -
       the writings of
       historians such as Josephus as well as the writings of early
       Church fathers such as
       Ignatius of Antioch.
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       &#10013;&#65039;&#128218; History of the
       &#9757;&#127995;&#128330;&#65039; Christian Church (6th - 16th
       Century)
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: June 4, 2024, 6:54 pm
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       videos will be presented in chronological order. Along the way I
       may post more &#9757;&#127995;&#128330;&#65039; Christian Church
       History videos and/or articles from other
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       understanding of past events.
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       In this video, we'll go over the history of the Church in the
       early ages.
       Excerpt:
       About the year 482, Justinian was born to peasants in what is
       today, North
       Macedonia. His Uncle Justin, who was a peasant soldier, adopted
       Justinian at an early age, brought him to Constantinople, and
       ensured he received a great education there. Justinian then
       served as an advisor to Uncle Justin, who rose quickly through
       the ranks.
       &#128073; Graphics and emojies by AGelbert. &#128072;
       0:00 Introduction
       6:23 &#129409; Emperor Justinian and &#128049; Empress Theodora
       12:02  English Missionary &#128330;&#65039; Movements
       18:45 John of Damascus
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       23:32 The Icon Controversy
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       29:32 Carolingian Catholicism
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       35:29 The East-West Schism
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       43:12 Intro to the &#128530; Crusades
       50:44 The 1st Crusade
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       56:40 Later Crusades
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       1:05:23
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       />Developments of the &#128176; Papacy, Papal Claims of
       &#129409;
       Authority &#128580;, and the Papal
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       &#10013;&#65039;&#128218; The Decapolis area of ten towns, where
       a Demon(s) Possessed man became Christ's First Apostle to the
       Gentiles.
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       Date: July 19, 2024, 12:22 pm
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       [glow=teal,2,300]&#128218; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE &#10013;&#65039;
       BIBLE – DECAPOLIS[/glow]
       SNIPPETS:
       DECAPOLIS d&#301; k&#259;p’ &#601; l&#301;s
       (&#916;&#949;&#954;&#945;&#769;&#960;&#959;&#955;&#953;&#962;,
       G1279). The Decapolis, as its name implies (Gr. deka: “ten,”
       polis: “city”), was, in NT times, the area of the ten towns. In
       such significance the term occurs in Matthew (4:25), Mark (5:20;
       7:31), Pliny (Natural History V. 16, 17) and Josephus (War III.
       ix. 7). Its original meaning may have been political rather than
       geographical, signifying the league of ten towns that prob. took
       shape in the period between Herod’s domination of the area and
       Rome’s stabilization of the eastern frontier in the early days
       of imperial rule. The area E of the Jordan and Galilee, where
       nine of the ten allied communities were located, was exposed to
       the open and unpacified desert, and a military alliance was
       sound policy for a group of predominantly Gr. cities, which in
       characteristic Gr. fashion set some value on autonomy and
       political independence. ... ...
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       Of chief interest to the student of the NT is the impact of the
       Decapolis on Galilee. “The Decapolis,” writes Smith (op. cit. p.
       607), “was flourishing at the time of Christ’s ministry. Gadara,
       with her temples and her amphitheatres, with her art, her games
       and her literature, overhung the Lake of Galilee, and the
       voyages of its fishermen.” Across the lake, five to eight m.
       wide, the farmers of Galilee could see a Gentile world. That
       world had a bridgehead in their territory at Scythopolis; and
       the roads, converging on that center and radiating thence must
       have exercised an attraction on many Jews. Perhaps the story of
       the Prodigal illustrates the fact with the “far country” remote
       only in outlook and way of life. Swine, a Gentile food, was
       among the farmstock of the Gadarene territory, and the wanderer
       of the story, trapped and ruined by an alien society, may have
       been no more than a hard day’s journey from home. Contact
       between the two areas was separated only by the tenuous barrier
       of the river and the lake. Large crowds from the Decapolis
       followed Christ at an early period of His ministry (Matt 4:25).
       He visited the area when He returned from Tyre and Sidon,
       reaching the eastern shore of the lake through Hippos. The
       healed lunatic of Gadara, the first “apostle to the Gentiles,”
       was sent to proclaim his blessing there (Mark 5:20). The
       multitudes of the later visit (8:1) were the fruit of this
       witness. ... ...
       Whereas it is on record that two of the Decapolis cities, Hippos
       and Gadara, were given by Augustus to Herod, it it possible that
       the League as a defensive unit, did not emerge until after
       Herod’s death in 4 b.c., but it is as probable that it took
       shape sixty years earlier—as part of Pompey’s reorganization of
       the whole of the eastern area of the Mediterranean. ... ...
       Generally, around Hippos was Hippene territory and villages, and
       around Gadara, Gadarene land (Mark 5:1 KJV). Gadara’s long
       aqueduct reveals the extent to which the community of Gadara
       must have controlled territory necessary to its life, commerce,
       and convenience. G. A. Smith, the great Palestinian geographer,
       wrote,“ The Decapolitan region, as Pliny calls it (V. 15), ‘the
       borders of the Decapolis,’ as it is styled in the gospels, was,
       therefore, no mere name, but an actual sphere of property and
       effective influence” ([glow=navy,2,300]Historical Geography of
       the Holy Land, 9th ed., p. 601[/glow]). ... ...
       AGelbert explanatory NOTE: The following picture was taken
       looking from North to South. The lake in the picture is the Sea
       of Galilee, which is West of Hippos (Sussita). Somewhere along
       that coast down there is where Christ came ashore and saved from
       perdition a man from Gadara possessed by a legion of demons.
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       [center]Hippos (Sussita)[/center]
       Sussita is situated on a high mountain about two kilometers east
       of the Lake of Tiberias ([glow=blue,2,300]Sea of
       Galilee[/glow]), and 350 m. above the level of the lake. The
       mountain on which the city was erected is almost entirely
       disconnected from its surroundings, with just a narrow saddle
       between it and the lower western slopes of the Golan Heights.
       The top of the mountain on which the city stands is flat and
       slopes gradually towards the west. ... ...
       It is impossible to believe that [glow=teal,2,300]our Lord and
       His disciples[/glow] did not know Greek. But at least in Gadara,
       that characteristic Greek city overhanging the Lake of Galilee,
       in the scholars it sent forth to Greece and Rome we have ample
       proof that [glow=teal,2,300][b]the kingdom of God[/glow] came
       forth in no obscure corner, but in the [glow=red,2,300]very face
       of the &#128013;&#129421;&#128009; kingdoms of this
       world[/glow][/b]” (op. cit. p. 608).
       Read more:
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       [move]
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       />The meek [glow=green,2,300]shall &#127885; eat and be
       &#128519;
       satisfied[/glow]: they shall [glow=blue,2,300]praise the Lord
       that seek him[/glow]: your [glow=blue,2,300]heart[/glow] shall
       live [glow=blue,2,300]for &#10024; ever[/glow]. &#128226; All
       the ends of the world shall [glow=teal,2,300]&#128330;&#65039;
       remember and turn &#9757;&#127995; unto the Lord[/glow]: and
       &#128226; [glow=geen,2,300]all[/glow] the kindreds of the
       nations shall &#128588; [glow=teal,2,300]worship before
       thee[/glow]. For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the
       governor among the nations. -- Psalm 22:26-28[/move]
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