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Excerpt from Reasons Demanding an Answer: An Inquiry Into the Basis of What Is Commonly Called Christianity
Again: James v. 14 acknowledges the existence of elders in an anointing or Christian Church, and exhorts them to anoint in the name of the Lord whose coming draweth nigh (ver. Thereby uniting Disciples and Christians also Acts xx. 17 sent to Ephesus to call the Elders; also Eph. I. 1-12 Paul to the saints who are in Ephesus, the faithful in christ-jesus we who first trusted in Christ. 1 Cor. Iv. 14 is tantamount to this Though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet in the gospel of jesus-christ you have only one father, even myself.
My gospel which I learned from no man (gal. I. 12 Theo philus of Antioch was a Christian who knew nothing of Jesus, but relied on anointing. Titian was the same; holy oil was also the faith of the Emperor Servius (a.d. Apollos (acts xviii. 24) was a preacher from Alexandria, who was ignorant of Jesus until he was instructed by Paul's companions Aquila and Priscilla. Also Rom. I. 8 To all that be in Rome, called to be saints I thank God that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. What faith? The Gospels were not then written Paul's theories were only beginning to be preached If they were Christians at all their Christianity must have been independent of Jesus, some exaggerated rumours may have reached them which some may have believed, and called that credulity religion but the theories of atoning sacrifice, vicarious propitiation, etc., which were the adaptations of Paul's imagination to Jewish rites, the very essence of New Testament Christianity, were not then attached to the word Christ, or to the Christian belief.
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