{"id":6130,"date":"2015-08-04T19:09:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T19:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2015-08-04T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T19:09:16","slug":"it-went-bad-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6130\/it-went-bad-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"It Went Bad Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Is it possible the Vatican made these 1st century letters up, and we don&#8217;t know what happened? Just can&#8217;t believe it went that far away by end of 1st century &#8211; but then, look at our time!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Yes, John, it went bad quickly.\u00a0 In fact, it had gone bad even before the apostles died.\u00a0 Paul told Timothy that all the saints in the Roman province of Asia had forsaken him, and John mentioned one church leader who refused to receive him or anyone associated with him.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">It&#8217;s been bad ever since, and &#8220;few there be&#8221; who find the way taught of the Spirit and truth that Jesus revealed to Paul.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> ============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I guess the Jerusalem Church fell away completely after AD70?\u00a0 What do you think about Josephus?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Josephus cannot be trusted. He was self-serving and ignorant of his own scriptures.\u00a0 Take nothing he wrote at face value.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was very disturbed by some of the things I read from Josephus&#8230; It&#8217;s almost like reading a Dakes Bible!! Thanx&#8230; Some are using Josephus to rip apart the doctrine of Christ for some reason. Saying he was hired by Rome to start Christianity basically!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Josephus wasn&#8217;t that bad!\u00a0 He was just rotten.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>The one who started Christianity is one who had beheld the face of God and been cast out of heaven.\u00a0 Josephus can&#8217;t hold a candle to that fallen creature.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Is it possible the Vatican made these 1st century letters up, and we don&#8217;t know what happened? Just can&#8217;t believe it went that far away by end of 1st century &#8211; but then, look at our time! ============ Yes, John, it went bad quickly.\u00a0 In fact, it had gone bad even before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}