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In article <9ED6D30A-CADF-63CC-31F9-C655882535EC@srcbs.org>, Mike Rhodes says...
>
>On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:42:25 +0000 (UTC), Matthew Johnson
> wrote:
>
>>In article <77B26004-64A5-C1B3-AAE5-EEB60C414509@srcbs.org>, Mike Rhodes says...
>>>
>>>On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:19:40 +0000 (UTC), "ruth"
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>lsenders@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Sarah Kanary wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The individual books of the "NT" were written by individual Jewish
>>>>> > Christians,
>>>>>
>>>>> Luke was a Gentile.
>>>>
>>>>How do you know that?
>>>>Ruth
>>>>>
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>>That is not a very convincing proof. There could have been other reasons for
>>leaving him out of the list.
>>
>
>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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Bob wrote:
> Ok, I questioned a Rabbi about this subject. He stated that Gen 1:26
> ("Let US make...")refers to God conferring with the angels as a
> courtesy to them during the "planning stage" for man's creation.
> However the actual creation of man in 1:27 is done singularly by God,
> as only He can do. Makes sense to me! Case closed.
>
What kind of "rabbi" was he? For instance, was he a Torah teacher? If
you really and truly spoke with a legitimate rabbi, then tell
specifically, what kind of rabbi was he.

I doubt with near absolute assurance he was not a "rabbi with
authority" such as Maimonides. He wrote a creed in which the second
article states:

I believe