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Jesus said:
25 If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household! (Matthew 10:25, NKJV throughout unless otherwise noted)
Yes, Jesus said that His faithful followers would be called all kind of names. Satan wants you to not be part of the true Christian faith, by calling it and its followers names. I know of people who have fallen for that very Satanic tactic.
History shows that various ones did not look kindly to towards real Christians:
22 But we desire to hear from you what you think; for concerning this sect, we know that it is spoken against everywhere. (Acts 28:22)
Can you handle a faith that is spoken against everywhere?
Most cannot. Propagandists learned that if you tell a lie often enough, more and more people will believe it.
Hence, this is one reason that Satan has inspired a lot of name calling against the true Christian church throughout the ages.
The late 20th century Cardinal Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou wrote that church history is mistaught and misses many aspects of what he calls Jewish Christianity. He wrote that this has led to a “false picture of Christian history” (Daniélou J, Cardinal. The Theology of Jewish Christianity. Translated by John A. Baker. The Westminister Press, 1964, Philadelphia, p. 2).
And while there are issues with his research, he was correct that the vast majority have not been properly taught the truth of church history and overlooked Christianity that is more “Jewish” than that accepted by most of the mainstream churches. The Franciscan Jean Briand reported that, historically, “the official Church systematically ignored the Judeo-Christians” (Briand J. The Judeo-Christian Church of Nazareth. Translated from the French by Mildred Duell. 1st edition, Franciscan Printing Press, Jerusalem, 1982, p. 66).
So, yes, the truth about the early Christian church has been missed and mistaught. This has led to massive ignorance about true Christianity as well as name-calling throughout history.
Furthermore, were you aware that the original Christians, were considered to be part of a cult? Notice that Paul was charged with being the leader of a religious cult:
2 When Paul was called in, Tertullus presented the charges against Paul in the following address to the governor: “Your Excellency…5 We have found this man to be a troublemaker who is constantly stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the cult known as the Nazarenes …
10…Paul said, “I know, sir, that you have been a judge of Jewish affairs for many years, so I gladly present my defense before you. 11 You can quickly discover that I arrived in Jerusalem no more than twelve days ago to worship at the Temple. 12 My accusers never found me arguing with anyone in the Temple, nor stirring up a riot in any synagogue or on the streets of the city. 13 These men cannot prove the things they accuse me of doing.
14 “But I admit that I follow the Way, which they call a cult. I worship the God of our ancestors, and I firmly believe the Jewish law and everything written in the prophets.
(Acts 24:2,5,10-14, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.)
While other translations use the term “sect,” instead of “cult,” was still used as a negative label and form of name-calling.
Consider also that the Sabbath-keeping (cf. Acts 15:21, 16:13, 18:4, 28:17) Apostle Paul mentioned the Father and Jesus in every introduction of every book he wrote (Rom 1:7; I Cor 1:3; II Cor 1:2; Gal 1:3; Eph 1:2; Phil 1:2;Col 1:2;I The 1:1; II Thes 1:2; I Tim 1:2; II Tim 1:2; Ti 1:1; Phi 1:3; Heb 1:1-2;), but he never mentions the Holy Spirit–this is a binitarian, not a trinitarian, position. That was the position of the early Christians as well as, according to historical accounts, the position of those the group later called Nazarenes.
Christians with “Nazarene” practices have long been accused of being part of a cult (or “Nazarne sect,” Acts 24:14, NIV/NJB) by persecutors of various types. Jesus warned that the faithful would be persecuted and insulted:
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. (Matthew 5:10-12, NIV)
God’s true prophets have, according to Jesus, been subject to insults and false statements, and so also will true followers of Jesus. And that has happened.
Furthermore, even the Apostle Paul wrote that “all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecutions” (2 Timothy 3:21).
Recently, I ran across the following from an older paper from a Protestant minister named Ken Howard titled Excommunicating the Faithful: Jewish Christianity in the Early Church, 3rd edition, 2013:
The … Jewish Christian sect whose theology stood within the acceptable boundaries of orthodoxy of the greater Church, that this sect existed through at least the fifth century, at which point it was declared heretical … (iii)
The archaeological data tends to provide some support for the assertions of the Church Fathers regarding Jewish Christianity. Specifically, they lend some support to the tradition of the Jewish Christian flight to Pella and claims that Pella and Kochaba were centers, respectively, for Nazarene and Ebionite activity. On the other hand, the archaeological data tends to demonstrate that Jewish Christianity may have been far more prevalent over a longer period of time than would seem to be indicated by the patristic literature. (p. 43)
The Church Fathers Eusebius and Epiphanius both describe what has come to be called the Pella Tradition. Eusebius mentions it once. Epiphanius mentions it three times in two different documents. 321 The core of the Pella Tradition has three parts: (1) the miraculous escape of the Jewish Christian Community from Jerusalem; (2) their relocation to Pella in the Transjordan; and (3) the subsequent fall of Jerusalem. 322 Epiphanius adds their eventual return to Jerusalem prior to 129 C.E. (p. 45)
there are independent attestations of the tradition from several sources, not all from the Pella region. The Syriac version of the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions dating from the mid-second century also provides a strong implicit reference to the tradition. This document referred to (1) a war which would occur after the “coming of the true prophet,” during which unbelievers would be destroyed and expelled from their places of sacrifice; 328 (2) the redemption (and return) of those who “kept the law without sacrifices;” 329 and (3) their relocation to a “secure place of the land” so “that they might survive and be preserved.” (p. 46)
It is clear that the Church’s attitude towards Jewish Christianity changed significantly over the first four centuries. The attitudes of the first century Apostles were generally tolerant of Jewish Christianity, taking it to be acceptable, if not normative. The second century was a time of transformation in which Jewish Christianity rapidly became the exception rather than the rule, considered a valid, if archaic, expression of Christianity. However, by the time of the third and fourth century, the Church Fathers appear to view any expression of Jewish Christianity, regardless of the theology behind it, as heretical. This change in attitude represented a massive reversal of opinion. It evolved over several centuries, shaped by a variety of complex and interconnected forces. (p. 51)
It is clear that at its beginning the Church was a Jewish Christian phenomenon: all of its members were Jews. … Even Paul’s attitude towards Judaism and Jewish Christianity may have been more open than is popularly believed. In none of Paul’s letters does he ever describe himself as a convert from Judaism. 349 Rather, it appears that Paul believed faith in Christ to be the true successor of the faith of Abraham. 350 (p. 52)
the Jewish Christian church of Jerusalem had maintained relatively undisputed authority among Christians in Palestine until 135 C.E. … After 135 C.E., the church in Jerusalem quickly became a predominantly Gentile Church, with a Hellenistic hierarchy and bishop. From that time onward, the leadership of the Jerusalem church was in the hands of Gentile and mostly non-native bishops. The loss of the See of Jerusalem at this critical lime no doubt had significant negative influence on the ability of the Jewish Christians to project their authority. 358 A great number of those Jewish Christians who had left Jerusalem under Hadrian’s expulsion order evidently returned again very quickly. 359 However, they were now out of power and in the minority.(p. 53)
the predominantly Jewish Christian church in Palestine, along with most of the churches of Asia Minor, celebrated Easter on the 14 th day of Nisan (therefore, they were called Quartodecimans). Although they celebrated the Christian Pascha on the same day as the Jews celebrated Pesach (Passover), they did not celebrate it in exactly the same way. They read the biblical Passover stories, but interpreted then in a Christian light. … Around 135 C.E., the Gentile leadership of the Jerusalem church decided to shift the celebration of Easter to the Sunday after the 14 th of Nisan. Wilson argues that this was, at least in part, a deliberate move to dissociate Christianity from Judaism, a move colored with anti-Jewish altitudes. Disputes over the date of Easter would continue to erupt over the next several centuries and anti-Jewish attitudes would continue to be one of the many forces at work in these controversies. (p. 54)
By the beginning of the third century the excommunication of Jewish Christianity had begun in fact. (p. 57)
The Council of Nicaea, held in 325 C.E. … The Quartodeciman practice of celebrating Easter on the 14th of Nisan was now banned. Only the Roman practice of the Sunday celebration of Easter was to be allowed. … strong anti-Jewish altitudes lay behind the decision. Constantine repeatedly argued that the Church should have nothing to do with the Jews, whom he variously accused of being sinful, criminal, blind, detestable; and wicked. (pp. 58, 59)
The decree of Nicaea notwithstanding, the Quartodeciman practice did not immediately cease even in the Gentile churches. Bagatti argues that the Jewish Christians would have resisted this decision vehemently, not only because of the way it was accomplished, but because they believed that the 14 th of Nisan date was fixed by the Lord. … in Jerusalem, the Gentile and Jewish Christian communities appear to have totally separated from each other, with the Gentile bishops installed at the Holy Sepulchre and the Jewish Christians occupying the Cenacle at Zion, 407 and an “us/them” attitude in evidence … (p. 60)
If the Council of Nicaea had signed the death warrant for Jewish Christianity, then Epiphanius was the executioner. The Nazarenes were perhaps the last “orthodox” Jewish Christian sect in existence. (p. 61)
So, at least partially because of hatred on the Jews, the faithful were supposedly excommunicated from the Constantine-supporting group. However, no later that 135 A.D., the faithful had separated themselves from those who compromised with the Romans (see also Marcus of Jerusalem: Apostolic successor or apostate?).
Anyway, name calling and persecution continued against the faithful. In addition to Emperor Constantine’s Edict Against Heretics, Emperor Theodosius intensified the name calling and persecutions.
Theodosius resorted to name-calling against those who held to the original biblical position on the Godhead. Specifically for those he disagreed with his trinitarian position, he stated:
“for the others, since in our judgment they are foolish madmen, we decree that they shall be branded with the ignominious name of heretics” (Theodosian Code XVI.1.2. Cited in Bettenson H, ed., Documents of the Christian Church, London: Oxford University Press, 1943, p. 31).
Related to Passover (which many now call Easter), the Greco-Roman Catholic historian Epiphanius, himself, admitted that the church’s original practice was to observe the 14th (not Sunday) when he wrote:
Audians … they choose to celebrate the Passover with the Jews–that is they contentiously celebrate the Passover at the same time as the Jews are holding their Festival of Unleavened Bread. And indeed that this used to be the church’s custom (Epiphanius. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III (Sects 47-80), De Fide). Section VI, Verses 8,11; 9,2. Translated by Frank Williams. EJ Brill, New York, 1994, pp. 420-421).
Audians … they tell churchmen … and say, “You abandoned the fathers’ Paschal rite in Constantine’s time from deference to the emperor, and changed the day to suit the emperor.” And some, again, declare with a contentiousness of their own, “You changed the Passover to Constantine’s birthday.”(Epiphanius. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III (Sects 47-80), De Fide). Section VI, Verses 8,11; 9,2,3. Translated by Frank Williams. EJ Brill, New York, 1994, pp. 420-421).
Epiphanius had claimed that Constantine made his decision “for the unity of the church” (Ibid, 9,5). He claimed that there was quarreling over the date of Passover since “after the time of the circumsized bishops” (Ibid, 9,9)–that is the first fifteen bishops of Jerusalem.
Here is the quote as published in Brill:
(4) And there were altogether fifteen bishops from the circumcision. And at that time, when the circumsized bishops were consecrated in Jerusalem, it was essential that the whole world followed them, so that there would be one accord and agreement, the celebration of one festival. (5) Hence their concern [was] to bring people’s minds into accord for the unity of the church.
<But> since <the festival> could not be celebrated <in this way> for such a long time, by God’s good pleasure <a correction> was made in the time of Constantine. (Epiphanius. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III (Sects 47-80), De Fide). Section VI, Verses 10,4,5. Translated by Frank Williams. EJ Brill, New York, 1994, p. 422)
So, Epiphanius basically is admitting that the early Christians kept Passover on the 14th, but he has the audacity to claim that God decided a change/correction needed to be made and supposedly had the pagan sun-god worshiping Emperor Constantine do it.
That was absurd and the faithful realized that. And some claimed that part of the reason was to celebrate the Emperor’s birthday!
Anyway, since Constantine’s declarations did not stop everyone from properly observing Passover, a later Roman Emperor, Theodosius, after he became a baptized “Christian” decreed the death penalty:
Edicts of Theodosius against the heretics, A.D. 380-394 … Theodosius … decreed that … by the death of the offender; and the same capital punishment was inflicted on the Audians, or Quartodecimans, who should dare to perpetrate the atrocious crime of celebrating on an improper day the festival (Gibbon E. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III, Chapter XXVII. ca. 1776-1788).
The various enactments against heretics are contained in the Code of Theodosius (16. tit. 5. s. 6—23 ; and the commentary of Gothofredus): the Eunomians, whose guilt consisted in denying any resemblance between the two sub- tances, and who were accordingly Anomoeans, were also deprived of the power of testamentary disposition, and of taking by testamentary gift: they seem, in fact, to have been deprived of all the rights of citizens. The Manichaean heresy was punishable with death; and the same penalty threatened the Audians or the Quartodecimans, who celebrated the festival of Easter on the wrong day. To the reign of Theodosius belonged the glory or the infamy of establishing Inquisitors of Faith, who seem to have been specially enjoined to look after the crime of the Quartodecimans (Smith W. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology : Oarses-Zygia. J. Murray, 1890 Item notes: v. 3 Original from Harvard University Digitized Jul 8, 2008, p. 1064).
Is killing those that faithfully followed the example of Jesus and John to observe the Passover on the 14th instead of Sunday a sign of a true Christian leader or a sign of a supporter of antichrist? Notice that the office of the “Inquisitors” was actually first formed to deal with people who kept Passover on the original biblical date–did you know that the date of Passover was considered to be that important?
In his Letter 112 to Augustine, Jerome called those with the original Christian practices, “a most pestilential heresy.” So, more name calling.
Yet, notice an interesting, but highly important, observation by the late Roman Catholic priest Bellarmino Bagatti:
In conclusion, regarding the Nazarenes, both St. Epiphanius and St. Jerome have nothing to condemn them for except the observance of customs forbidden by the Councils. (Bagatti, Bellarmino. Translated by Eugene Hoade. The Church from the Circumcision. Nihil obstat: Marcus Adinolfi. Imprimi potest: Herminius Roncari. Imprimatur: +Albertus Gori, die 26 Junii 1970. Franciscan Printing Press, Jerusalem, p. 35)
And that is a major difference between the Continuing Church of God and most others who consider themselves Christian. The Greco-Roman-Protestants accept several Imperial (and other) Councils as divinely authoritative (they are selective about the various councils as some contradict others) as their basis to change from aspects of the original beliefs (or at least accepted those changed beliefs), while we in the CCOG consider those councils of mainly historical interest, often used to name call and/or persecute those who hold to the original faith.
And the name calling has continued from the trinitarians and Easter Sunday people against those of us who still hold to original Christian beliefs.
Yet, this was not to be unexpected for the true followers of Jesus:
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you (Matthew 5:10-12)
32 But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33 partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; (Hebrews 10:32-34)
4 … they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. (1 Peter 4:4)
The fact that people name call against true Christians has occurred throughout the church age.
Now, the most common name for people who hold to the original beliefs is to refer to them as a cult.
Related to that and other name calling, the Continuing Church of God put together this sermon on its ContinuingCOG channel:
What is a cult? What is a heretic? If the Continuing Church of God holds to the original faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3) can it be a heretical cult? Was the Apostle Paul accused of being the ringleader of a cult? Did Jesus warn that people would insult His faithful followers? Do scholars teach that the Greco-Roman Catholic churches have or do not have the teachings of the first two centuries of the Christian church era? Does the ‘Parable of the Sower,’ recorded in Matthew, Mark, and Luke’s Gospel accounts warn that Satan the Devil will try to sway people away from the true faith? Was the original church trinitarian? Was the trinity formally adopted by the Council of Constantinople called by Emperor Theodosius in 381 according to the ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church’? Were early Christians actually binitarian (semi-Arian)? Should doctrine be based on the word of God, the Bible? Are there scriptural and historical reasons to consider the Continuing Church of God as faithful and not some changed cultic faith? Dr. Thiel deals with these issues and more.
Here is a link to the sermon: Cults and other Name Calling.
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