Hi all! I'm back from a looooooong vacation/mission trip in the Ukraine i've Got to check up on all the stuff posted since I've been gone. I like the new look though!
It is long, but has SO much meaning! Wow, Piper is a good writer. Do you know if his facts are true (Josephus might be able to tell you), or if this is only fiction?
"The tendency, already discernible in the canonical Gospels, to lay stress on the efforts of Pilate to acquit Christ, and thus pass as lenient a judgment as possible upon his crime, goes further in the apocryphal Gospels and led in later years to the claim that he actually became a Christian.
The Abyssinian Church reckons him as a saint, and assigns 25 June to him and to Claudia Procula, his wife.
The belief that she became a Christian goes back to the second century, and may be found in Origen (Hom., in Mat., xxxv).
The Greek Church assigns her a feast on 27 October.
Tertullian and Justin Martyr both speak of a report on the Crucifixion (not extant) sent in by Pilate to Tiberius, from which idea a large amount of apocryphal literature originated.
Some of these were Christian in origin (Gospel of Nicodemus), others came from the heathen, but these have all perished."
"Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed." -C. S. Lewis
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thatsa long poem but its good
i had never heard about pilate beings reborn utnil this site
Hi all!
I'm back from a looooooong vacation/mission trip in the Ukraine
i've Got to check up on all the stuff posted since I've been gone.
I like the new look though!
It is long, but has SO much meaning! Wow, Piper is a good writer. Do you know if his facts are true (Josephus might be able to tell you), or if this is only fiction?
"The tendency, already discernible in the canonical Gospels, to lay stress on the efforts of Pilate to acquit Christ, and thus pass as lenient a judgment as possible upon his crime, goes further in the apocryphal Gospels and led in later years to the claim that he actually became a Christian.
The Abyssinian Church reckons him as a saint, and assigns 25 June to him and to Claudia Procula, his wife.
The belief that she became a Christian goes back to the second century, and may be found in Origen (Hom., in Mat., xxxv).
The Greek Church assigns her a feast on 27 October.
Tertullian and Justin Martyr both speak of a report on the Crucifixion (not extant) sent in by Pilate to Tiberius, from which idea a large amount of apocryphal literature originated.
Some of these were Christian in origin (Gospel of Nicodemus), others came from the heathen, but these have all perished."
Kennyr, Thank you VERY much! That was exactly what I was asking! :-)
Yes, according to History, Porsha (sp? maybe it's Porscha), Pilate's wife was converted first, then Pilate.
Cool Stuff!
HUH.
sad how much we forget until we look - - i mean really look
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