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In article <9ED6D30A-CADF-63CC-31F9-C655882535EC@srcbs.org>, Mike Rhodes says...
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>On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:42:25 +0000 (UTC), Matthew Johnson
> wrote:
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>>In article <77B26004-64A5-C1B3-AAE5-EEB60C414509@srcbs.org>, Mike Rhodes says...
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>>>On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:19:40 +0000 (UTC), "ruth"
>>> wrote:
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>>>>lsenders@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Sarah Kanary wrote:
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>>>>> >
>>>>> > The individual books of the "NT" were written by individual Jewish
>>>>> > Christians,
>>>>>
>>>>> Luke was a Gentile.
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>>>>How do you know that?
>>>>Ruth
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>>>All three of my Bible dictionaries, Easton, Fausset & Smith, state
>>>that Luke was a Gentile. The proof given was that he was not named by
>>>Paul as one of the circumcised in Colossians 4.
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>>That is not a very convincing proof. There could have been other reasons for
>>leaving him out of the list.
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>And other reasons for so strongly stating his Gentileness, such as
>writing a rather odd 'gospel'. And that address to "Theophilus". How
>Roman does that sound to you? The dictionaries treat him as a real
>person, though it easily could be just a writing technique; as in
>fiction.

No, Theophilus is a real person. What is more, he is almost certainly the person
who paid for the initial publication of Acts and Luke. The mention of his name
in the preface to Acts is giving him credit, so to speak, for underwriting the
publication, muchlike the 'Acknowledgments' section of the preface in many
modern books.


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In article , lsenders@hotmail.com
says...
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>Matthew Johnson wrote:
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>> > You
>> >confuse the Greek notion of determinism or "system" with the
>biblical
>> >Christian idea of God's control of all things.
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>> You miss the point, Loren. It is you, with your slavery to Calvinism,
>who have
>> confused the Greek notion of determinism with the CHristian idea of
>God's
>> providential control. That is why you reduce us to automota.
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>I would suggest the take another look at the fathers.

I have, and that is how I know how wrong you are, Loren!

> This was their
>failure as well.

It was no _failure_. You simply misunderstood what they were doin