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Everett, what did Lindsay say initially about "this generation"? Did he first say it was 1948 and then, as time marched on, say it might be '67?

That's what JWs did until they finally had "new light"
and abandoned the teaching.


Marty, what you say, I think, is factually true. 325AD is nearly 300 years after the church was founded, and by then, was far removed from the teachings of Christ and the apostles. Not only that, the structure and hierarchy of the church had mutated
into something completely different. The church had no celibate "Pope" wearing fancy robes and having his ring kissed in 40AD. That would have been unthinkable to the first Christians and was condemned by Jesus himself in Matthew 23. Peter was married. (1st Corinthians 9)

Because of that, it doesn't matter what Constantine said or did, he was most likely Christian in the same sense Bill Clinton is...politically.

Josephus' references to Jesus are incidental, but they are there. Luke and the other NT writers are no less historians because they recorded events regarding the church. They cite times, dates, places, rulers, officials...many of which have been verified by secular archeology.

A small example is Romans 16:23, where Paul mentions Eratus, the city treasurer. (Romans was written in Corinth) A Latin inscription in limestone pavement has been found claiming a city treasurer named Erastus laid the pavement at his own expense.

Archeology also confirms much of the Old Testament.

Ps...I learned this in the 9th grade, before I dropped out: Catholicism is a mixture of the teachings of Christ and Plato. Protestantism is a mixture of Christ and Aristotle.

Neither of which is Christianity, shown by Paul's speech in Athens (Acts 17) and his letter to the Corinthians. (1st Corinthians 1:18-2:5)