Employing Jefferson against the previous historic rulings of the Supreme Courts and the Christian foundation of American law, the Supreme Court, since , has relied up Read more Thomas Paine is often employed by the political left as justification for their false claim that America was established as a secular nation.
The facts, however, completely expose their uninformed argument. Click to read the entire article… While Thomas Paine is remembered positively for his contribution to American independence through his book, Common Sense, his contemporary defenders overstate his influence when they credit him as bein Read more Concerned with the cultural decay of America, Dr.
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Upcoming events. Putting the Judiciary in Its Place. Your Baby Was Not a Fish. To their names may be added, Erastus, chamberlain of Corinth; Aristarchus, the Macedonian, and Trophimus, an Ephesians, converted by St. Paul, and fellow-laborer with him, Joseph, commonly called Barsabas, and Ananias, bishop of Damascus; each of the Seventy.
Haynes Jr. Rhonda Stoppe. Who Is Jehu in the Bible? Meg Bucher. She had the disconcerting habit of eliminating her enemies by poison. Five years after becoming emperor, Nero had his mother murdered. According to Tacitus, he also had his wife Octavia executed. Some biblical historians believed Nero was the first anti-Christ of which Scripture speaks in the New Testament. In mid-July of A.
Nero rushed to the area himself and gave money to victims from his own treasury and opened his house to the newly homeless. Roman coin c. According to Roman historian Suetonius c. Polycarp was the pastor of Smyrna, one of the seven churches of Revelation. Christ had found no fault with them, but encouraged them about their tribulations. Polycarp was a disciple of the apostle John and the last survivor of those who knew the apostles.
The persecutions started. Tertullian, who lived during this time period, informs us that if the Christians had collectively withdrawn themselves from the Roman territories, the empire would have greatly depopulated. He was a great oppressor of heresies in general.
Numberless Christians were slain without trial and buried indiscriminately in heaps sometimes fifty or sixty being cast into a pit together, without the least decency. Heathen temples began to be forsaken, and the Christian churches grew. The heathen were taking the law into their own hands and were killing Christians and considered it a merit.
Neither rank, gender, nor age were regarded. The Edict of and ordered all Christian leaders to be put to death that did not take part in sacrificing to the gods.
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