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In
ooe of
your
reoenl
Pwin Truth
maga–
zioes, you made lhe st.atement
that
Simoa
the soroerer (mentiolied in ACIS 8) oor–
rupted lbe original gospel; gaioed oootrol
of
the
early cbu.rcb and substitutcd
a false
gospel whicb
is
stiJ1
beiog proclaimed by
tbe bulle. or the professedly Christian
cburches tO<Iay:
[ cannot
s.ee
that you cao
clea.rty
prove
your statement regarding Simon from thc
Bible. FroO> wbat other litcrary
souru
do
you get the proofs for malc.iog tbe state–
ment tbat you did, tbat he gaioed oontrol
of the early cburch and substiruted anolher
gospel?
·
O. S.
Banlc.s,
Ripoo,
CA
•
A
number ofour readen
Q.fked lhi.t
qu~s-
tion.
•
Th~
4th « ntury historian
ó/
tlrt Christüm
church, Eusebius of
CaesoreQ.
JtaltJ
t#u;zt
Simon
••. • •
performed many magic rites
by
"Such
ú
tite testimony of Ju.stin, with
which also lrenaew toincides in his first
book
again.st
heRsies .
. .
we
lune
under·
stood
[Simon]
to
tale~
thelead in al/ heresy;
from whcm also down to tite pruent time.
those thot followed him
sti/1
offected the
modest philotophy of the Chrlstlttnt .
. . "
(Ecclesiastical History,
8ook 2. chopter 1
J).
The tettimony ofEusebiU$, Justin Af.ortyr,
and lreno.eus
-
combined
willt
the
accounl
ofAct18 - constituta t'i_iMnce
thaJ
Slmcn
tJi'e
sorurtr
wat
tire earliest non
4
Chrútian to
clai'm Christian autltority, and that he
wa.r
instrumental
in
utablishing the
fint
Ju:r~ti·
colsysttml,ofpteudi>-Christlan beliefs.
-Roben Glnskey
1
recently beard Madylen Murray
CYHair on a radio program
clairn
that lbere
isn't a sb.ied of evidenee that
Jesus
Christ
cver cxistect WouJd you or someone at
Ambassador CoUege please respood
10
this
aUegation?
M
rs.
C«il M0ore,
Los
Danos, CA
lht
operation ofderrums,
was
COit$idered
god.
•
Tacitu.t, a
fir.n-untury
Romtln
historian~
in
your
lm~rial
dty
ofRome, and
wtJS
!ron- wrot;
thaJ
N~ro '~nfticteJ
the most cruel
"'~
__.,'f$if_lq,yo1!J,J!f/,J!);;'!,f.''!J!$.'-Il·'!gfl!!: . . ,
·Aru(.,;,!E.~lur<s,upon,o g79,up.of.p~ople.
detesudfoc
.·
r·
~
.
"'~'fly.afl. 'i'lr~afJ1.QJ'itQns,
with
a
few
q)so of
tlreir D.bomí(tOJions, and poplilorfy
known as
tht
otMr nations.,
worsltlp him,
confusing
Chrútians.
ThL
namL
CDml!
from Chri.vtu.s,
him as the Suprtme God
. . .
who wos pul to death in the principote of
Tiberius
by
the
PtYKuraJor
Pontfus Pi/ate••
(Totitus,
Anoales,
15.44;
eJ.
Luke
J: /;
23:14,
JJ).
Tocirus is not the only eofly
nDnblblicoJ histon·an auuJing
ro
the
hiJtori..
city ofJesus Christ.
Ju.stin
Martyr,' a
leading
~hurch
fatlter
i11
tht second century, wrote
the
fo/lowing: "Now
there
ú
a vutage In the
/ond ofthe Jews, thirty-ji>'< stodio from Je–
rusalem,
in
which
Cltrist
wa.r
bt>rn,
o.t
you
can
ascertain
also from
the registn'es ofthe
ta.xlng
undu
Cyrenius
your
first procurator
In Judoeo"
(First Apology,
chopter
]4).
Jus–
tin
app~als
10
the public records
extant
in
his
day
t()
tkmonJtraJe
thdl
Jesu.J
was
born in
Judoeo.
Wt-
alscltaw
tM
testimony of
JuJiaJt
·~he
Apostate," a fourth century emperor of
Rome.
u.Jesus,
whom
you
ttlebrate,
was
one
of
Caesar's subjtcts .
.•
For
yourselves
allow,
tha1 lrt-
wa.s
enrolled with his faJher and
mQther in tltt
time
ofCyunius .
..
Baving
done
nothing in Iris lifetime
worthy
of
re~
membrance;
unless
anyone
think.r it
i.s
a
mfghtymouer to heof lame ond blindpeopk.
and exorcise demoniacs In
tli'e
'iillage of
Bethsoidi> ond·Bethany"(quoted in the po/e–
m/c of Cyril of Alexondrio ogoinst Julian,
Cydl Contr. Ju(lan,
>f.,
pp.
1/J,
/91). The
Imperio/ orchiV<t of Rome oppororuly ttlll
contJJined
the
un.sus
records
that
Jesus was
one
of
Caesar'S
subjects.
Writing
about
eyen
one aspect ofthe
liJe
tvtd
times
of
Jesus
Christ is
an
lnexhaustlblt
subjtct,
far
100
overwhelming
for
j ust
one
short orticle (see John 21:25}. So, in oddi–
tion
to
reading
and
studying lht
four
bi~lical
blogrophies
ofJtsUs' life,
we
enccurage
you
10
requesl our
fre«
I:Jt:x>klet
entitled
Thc: Real
Jesus.
·-
... , ....!•.;·.,.
; úllr•~ ·-,(· ~JA.bnR.
S(}rroeUr
A
glaring enor
in
yow fi.rst
revised
issue
of
Ploin T111th
(February 8. 197$ page 3):
"Trouble Along the 48th Parallel." 1 would
advise tbat
your
historians aod geog:ra–
pbers take another look at tbat unguarded
borderberween Canada and the
U
.S,
lfmy
memory serves me
rigb~
it's &he 49th Paral–
lel and 1
am sure
it has heeo !bit way for a
long. long time.
Jusi
how long'?
1
hope you
can
tell me tbat.
1
rcally enjoyed the
new
formal lt may
not he tbe pleasure
10
tbe eye it onee
was.
but
it
does c:onvc:y a wealtb of information.
Bravo!
Warren Cushing.
West Vanoouver, CANADA
•
You ore quit< rlght. Tht
/8()]
Louishvra
Purclttw!
-
which doubled
the
si:~
of
the
U.
S.
r-
included t<rritory from New Orleons
In tht south, to the 49th porallel In the
norlh.
Suhs-equenJ treatles with Britain ex–
tended this 49th poro/le/ border from the
Washington territory
in
tAe
wDt
to
tite M
in·
neJota ttrrltory
In
the east.
By
the
18.5/rs,
the world's "longm petu:eful border" (ln–
cludihg the Irregular boundaryJrom Mlnne–
sottJ ro
Maine)
was well
established
1
finishe'd readiog
"Lo
ve Them Now".on .
page
15
and "What Malees
a
Child Suc·
cessful at Scbool" on page
7
of lhe l'ebru–
ary
22
Ploin Truth.
We need
so
much
more
of that type of family living. Wben my
cbildren were
small,
they ofleo wenl
to
bed
aslc.iog.
"Why does Oaddy
always .spoil
c::verytb.in
g?"
Now Daddy
Js
many years older and
long $íoce made a new life-style for bim·
self. But he
has
never undcmood why bis
children do nOt
feel
close. Their memOries .
are OOI'bappy:·fsfl't
it
só. terribly si.d .;,
SO ·
sad ,...
w.O:grol"
!'loo:Jate¡sm...,; '.'!l;:)'tua.:.)!
Mae Ruth Sbatl'er,
Gah.~a,.O,H,,
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