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    "The Formation of the Christian Church" - An Alternate Biblical History
    "The Formation of the Christian Church" - An Alternate Biblical History
    "The Formation of the Christian Church" - An Alternate Biblical History
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    "The Formation of the Christian Church" - An Alternate Biblical History

    By Richard Hayes

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    This book tells the story of the life of Jesus and the history of the early Church, the Culdees Christian Church, the Catholic Church, and the reformation. it gives us a understand of the Old Testament and its role of predictions of a Messiah to re-establish a physical kingdom of King David on Earth, as well as the promise of Salvation and eternal life for the descendants of Adam. this book also gives us understand of the New Testament and its role in claims that Jesus of Nazareth is the “Anointed one” and the role of this Jewish King of Judah in the lives of Christians as the embodiment of our God whom is described as a trinity – the Father, Son and Holy Spirit .
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    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateFeb 20, 2017
    ISBN9781365725456
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      "The Formation of the Christian Church" - An Alternate Biblical History - Richard Hayes

      "The Formation of the Christian Church" - An Alternate Biblical History

      The Formation of the Christian Church  An Alternate Biblical History

      First Edition 2nd Printing

      By Richard Hayes

      2018

      PUBLISHED by Richard Hayes VIA Lulu.com

      COPYRIGHT (c) 2018 by Richard Hayes

      All rights reserved. Originated in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Author or Publisher.

      ISBN 978-1-365-72545-6

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      Hayes, Richard

      The Formation of the Christian Church  An Alternate Biblical History / by Richard Hayes.

      First American Edition 2nd printing.

      1 Life of Jesus the Christ

      2 Early Christian Church History

      3 Culdees Christian Church History

      4 Roman Catholic Church History

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      The Early Life of Jesus

      Jesus as We Know Him from the New Testament Writings

      The Desposyni - Heirs of the Lord 

      Early Christian Church History

      The Holy Roman ‘Catholic’ Church

      Culdees Christians in New World

      Reformation

      Commentary

      Time Table of Events

      Early Centers of Christianity

      The Apostles 12 + 70

      The Linage from Eleazar Leading up to Jesus

      The Canon

      References

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      Articles and images on Early Centers of Christianity are from Wikipedia.

      Cover image: Scripture Genealogy From  Adam to Christ from 1835 Cottage Bible American Edition. Edited by Rev. William Patton,  Published by D.F. Robinson and H. F. Sumner, Printed by James Conner and Willium R. Cooke, Clerk's Office District Court, Southern District, New York, Digitized by Richard Hayes

      The Formation of the Christian Church  An Alternate Biblical History

      Introduction

      When we read in the Old Testament of our Bible of the coming Messiah, who is to be a descendant from King David, we as Christians assume that the terms 'Savior', 'Christ', and 'Messiah' refers to the Hebrew's God, YHWH (Yahweh) 1, covenant with the Hebrew people: That the people must keep the covenant and laws of God and in return the Hebrew people will have and rule the Promised Land - the land of milk and honey. And for the Hebrews, who claim to be descendants of Adam, to have Salvation, referring to the God of creation, Elohiym 1, promise to Adam and his descendants of Eternal Life. But we as Christians have misread the meaning of the words in the Bible. When the Jews prayed to God for a 'Messiah' they were not looking for someone to save their souls - to give them eternal life, but instead for someone to act as a rebel military leader, someone who would drive out the occupying enemy overseers: the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Romans, the Arabs, and to re-establish the kingdom of David. The man who the Jews accepted as their Messiah was a man named Bar Kokhba who led a revolt against the Romans in 132 CE. The Christians of that time period did not accept Bar Kokhba as Messiah as the Christians believed that Jesus the Nazarene was their Messiah. The Jews had revolted against Rome before and according to Emperor Nero (54-68 CE.), by setting fire to Rome in 64 CE. Rome then laid siege to Jerusalem and by 70 CE, the second Temple had been burned and the most of the Jews killed. The siege of Masada from 73 to 74 CE was one of the final events in the first Jewish-Roman War. In the subsequent years Jerusalem was left in ruins. Most of the surviving Jews and Christians moved to Syria or Mesopotamia under the Persians. After the second Jewish revolt (132 – 135 CE) lead by Bar Kokhba failed, Hadrian (117 – 138 CE) built 'Colona Aelia Capitolina' over ruins of Jerusalem and built a temple to the Roman god Jupiter and placed statues of himself on the Temple mount. Hadrian then barred the Jews from entering Jerusalem except for the day of Tisha B'Av, thus the subsequent Jerusalem Christian bishops were gentiles (uncircumcised) for the first time.

      Above, I speak of the Hebrews verses the Jews. The Hebrews were one of the groups of people descendant from Abraham, which included the Israelites, Ishmaelite, Edomites, and the Midianites. The Hebrews include all of the peoples who are the children of Jacob - later renamed Israel, thus the name Israelites. They, the twelve tribes, are united by a common language - Hebrew and by their heritage. I use the term Hebrews here rather that Israelites to distinguish between the original twelve tribes verses the later peoples of the separate kingdoms of Israel and Judah or the united kingdom of Israel.

      The Jews, on the other hand, were descendants of the exhales who were taken to Babylon after the destruction of the first Temple during the time of Jehoiachim in 587 BCE, and had returned to the land of Judaea around 520 BCE to build the second Temple. The second Temple was located on the same site as the first Temple on top of a mount. The area of Judaea  was conqured and ruled by others several times: The Persians (549 – 332 BCE), Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and Antiochus - King of Syria (167 BCE). In 166 BCE an uprising occurred and the Maccabees came to power. In 63 BCE Roman Emporer Pompey conquered Jerusalem. In 40 BCE, the 2nd Roman Triumvirate – Antony, Octavius, Lepidus appointed Herod King over Judaea. King Herod began to rule in 37 BCE..  In 20 BCE, Herod began to enlarge the temple and constructed the outer walls around the site of the Temple mount, with the area inside the walls being filled in, creating a surface of larger that 12 football fields. The remaining west wall is what is left of Herod's expansion of the Temple complex. Herod's Father, Antipater, began the Herodian dynasty which lasted to 99 CE. Augustus was Emperor of Rome (31 BCE – 14 CE). Tiberius was Emperor of Rome (14 – 37CE).

      The man we know as the 'Christ', our 'Savior', as Christians, is Jesus, who started our version of our faith - Christianity, a version of Judaism in which the promises of God to the Hebrew people are fulfilled in the person of Jesus, the Nazarene: by Him teaching and leading the people; by His family's support for Him to become King and High Priest of the nation of Judaea as was his birth right; and by the redemptive act of Jesus' death on the cross and His resurrection as the fulfillment of God's covenant promise to Adam and his offspring of eternal life. (Note: Jesus is the anglicized form of His Greek name Ihsous. His Hebrew name was Yeshua (yi shu a). There is no J sound in Hebrew 2)

      The Early Life of Jesus

      What we know of Jesus comes to us from the New Testament writings by the Apostles and Disciples, and from other apocryphal writings. From the Book 'Protoevangelism of James' 3 which is a new testament apocryphal Gospel, written by Jesus' brother and cousin James the lesser, we know of the story of how Jesus' mother Mary was given by her parents at the age of two, to the Priest to be raised as a vestal virgin, an Almah

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