According to the Word of God and the custom of the early church, public worship and prayer and the administration of the sacraments should be in a language understood by the people.
This was fulfilled in the early church's time bySimon bar Kochba but it is certainly also a symbol of the Antichrist who will deceive the Jewish people into thinking that he is their Messiah.
In fact, all of the New Testament except eleven verses can be reconstructed from the writings of the early church fathers in the second and third centuries.
In order to accomplish the end result, including the preservation of His Word through the centuries, God guided the early church councils in their recognition of the canon.
What has changed is that the truth of God today has already been fully revealed in His Word, while, in the early church, it had not yet been fully revealed.
As we have studied so far, the evidence through which the apostles of the early Church believed Jesus as Christ and preached Him was not just the name“Jesus,” but His fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible.
In the Early Church, the first canons were decreed by bishops united in"Ecumenical" councils(the Emperor summoning all of the known world's bishops to attend with at least the acknowledgement of the Bishop of Rome) or"local" councils(bishops of a region or territory).
James, the Brother of Jesus, administered the early church in Jerusalem and was the author of a book in the Bible. At the age of 94 he was beat and stoned, and finally had his brains bashed out with a fuller's club.
In order to really begin to understand what the Bible teaches about the Last Days, we have to stop thinking with a Western, Gentile, Hellenistic mind and begin thinking of the Scriptures in the way the Early Church did.
At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit enabled the disciples to share the gospel in a myriad of languages and empowered the Early Church to spread the story of the Savior to new lands and new people.
The human process of collecting the books of the Bible was flawed, but God, in His sovereignty, and despite our ignorance and stubbornness, brought the early church to the recognition of the books He had inspired.
The pagans brought with them their idols and the practices they were accustomed to, and the church changed; icons, elaborate architecture, pilgrimages, and the veneration of saints were added to the simplicity of early church worship.
Clement's quotes totally correspond with the Bible we read today. In fact, even if we lost all of the 5,300 early Greek manuscripts, all of the 10,000 Latin vulgates, and all of the 9,300 other ancient manuscripts, we would be able to reconstruct all but 11 verses of the New Testament from the writings of the early Church leaders who quoted from them extensively.
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