Crash kirjoitti:
Stefanus-seura oli kai Leo Mellerin touhuja?
Stefanus (Stephen) nimistä henkilöä käsitellään Urantia-kirjassa, kuten lukemattomia muita historiallisen kiristinuskoon liitettyjä nimiä. Tiedot ovat usein hyvinkin yksityiskohtaisia:
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Simon greatly enjoyed his visit to Jerusalem. He was duly received into
the commonwealth of Israel at the Passover consecration of the new sons of the
commandment. While Simon attended the Passover ceremonies, Jesus mingled with
the throngs of visitors and engaged in many interesting personal conferences
with numerous gentile proselytes.
Perhaps the most notable of all these contacts was the one with a young
Hellenist named Stephen. This young man was on his first visit to Jerusalem
and chanced to meet Jesus on Thursday afternoon of Passover week. While they
both strolled about viewing the Asmonean palace, Jesus began the casual
conversation that resulted in their becoming interested in each other, and
which led to a four-hour discussion of the way of life and the true God and
his worship. Stephen was tremendously impressed with what Jesus said; he never
forgot his words.
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And this was the same Stephen who subsequently became a believer in the
teachings of Jesus, and whose boldness in preaching this early gospel resulted
in his being stoned to death by irate Jews. Some of Stephen's extraordinary
boldness in proclaiming his view of the new gospel was the direct result of
this earlier interview with Jesus. But Stephen never even faintly surmised
that the Galilean he had talked with some fifteen years previously was the
very same person whom he later proclaimed the world's Savior, and for whom he
was so soon to die, thus becoming the first martyr of the newly evolving
Christian faith. When Stephen yielded up his life as the price of his attack
upon the Jewish temple and its traditional practices, there stood by one named
Saul, a citizen of Tarsus. And when Saul saw how this Greek could die for his
faith, there were aroused in his heart those emotions which eventually led him
to espouse the cause for which Stephen died; later on he became the aggressive
and indomitable Paul, the philosopher, if not the sole founder, of the
Christian religion.
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The significance of this remarkable doing can the better be understood
when we record the fact that, out of this group of thirty-two Jesus-taught
religious leaders in Rome, only two were unfruitful; the thirty became pivotal
individuals in the establishment of Christianity in Rome, and certain of them
also aided in turning the chief Mithraic temple into the first Christian
church of that city. We who view human activities from behind the scenes and
in the light of nineteen centuries of time recognize just three factors of
paramount value in the early setting of the stage for the rapid spread of
Christianity throughout Europe, and they are:
1. The choosing and holding of Simon Peter as an apostle.
2. The talk in Jerusalem with Stephen, whose death led to the winning of
Saul of Tarsus.
3. The preliminary preparation of these thirty Romans for the subsequent
leadership of the new religion in Rome and throughout the empire.
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And so all went well in Jerusalem until the time of the coming of the
Greeks in large numbers from Alexandria. Two of the pupils of Rodan arrived in
Jerusalem and made many converts from among the Hellenists. Among their early
converts were Stephen and Barnabas. These able Greeks did not so much have the
Jewish viewpoint, and they did not so well conform to the Jewish mode of
worship and other ceremonial practices. And it was the doings of these Greek
believers that terminated the peaceful relations between the Jesus brotherhood
and the Pharisees and Sadducees. Stephen and his Greek associate began to
preach more as Jesus taught, and this brought them into immediate conflict
with the Jewish rulers. In one of Stephen's public sermons, when he reached
the objectionable part of the discourse, they dispensed with all formalities
of trial and proceeded to stone him to death on the spot.
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Stephen, the leader of the Greek colony of Jesus' believers in Jerusalem,
thus became the first martyr to the new faith and the specific cause for the
formal organization of the early Christian church. This new crisis was met by
the recognition that believers could not longer go on as a sect within the
Jewish faith. They all agreed that they must separate themselves from
unbelievers; and within one month from the death of Stephen the church at
Jerusalem had been organized under the leadership of Peter, and James the
brother of Jesus had been installed as its titular head.
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Haluaisin huomauttaa, että Urantia-kirjan selostus biologisen elämän evoluutiosta Maapallolla on kattava, seikkaperäinen ja tutkimisen arvoinen. Myös ID idea käsitellään siinä, mutta ei minkään nykyisen ideologian mukaan.
http://www.eduskunta.fi/faktatmp/utatmp ... 2003_p.htmKiitos Stefan kirjoituksestasi, joka sangen onnistuneesti täydensi mielikuvaani Stefanus-seurasta ja Leo Melleristä.
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