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Doctrinal Domain
Table of Contents
Section 1: Group types
Watchers: You need to defend the
walls and stay alert, since only the select few have the will to do your job.
Those who disciple believers: They
thought they knew, but then you should them the correct path!
Those who disciple baby
Christians: This is what every Xian should be able to do, but the trick is to
disciple them correctly.
Recovery groups: You heal hearts and souls, the path to
correct wrongs into rights is an art.
Evangelists: You bring souls to
the lord, your also expected to preach correctly and
save them from sin correctly.
Section 2:The
background information
Maps
The Greek world map
People
Hasmonean dynasty: From the time of the downfall of the
greeks to the time of the romans, the Hebrews held sway over
The Caesars:
The famous roman emperors
Macedonian/Greek rulers: It
started with Alexander, as his generals squabbled over the remains
Seleucid
dynasty: The greek
rulers that fought the hasmoneans and are known in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees
Ptolemaic
dynasty: The last great Egyptian dynasty
Herodian dyntasy: Herods name speaks volumes, both good and bad.
The important rabbis: These men
held great influence over the jewish
people.
The sects
The rabbinical wisdom: Hear their
words and see what makes them human
The rabbinical traditions: the rabbis
had traditions that people
sometimes grumbled about, as we know from the bible.
The rabbinical controversies: The
3 sects, and why the really didn’t like each other.
The three sects: The strict and
unpopular sadduces, the popular and lax pharises, and the esoteric and monastic essenes
Essense
specifics: The very interesting and important monastics,
and how very similar to early Christians they were.
Mindset on other issues
Torah: The life-blood of the
people
Word-Logos: a seemingly greek thought, used and thought of
with a jewish twist.
The Messiah/Warrior King: How the
jewish people thought of
their messiah
Food-Fellowship: the heart of
every meeting, and how similar jews
fellowshiped as early Christians.
Section 3a: Doctrinal timeline and why history
is important
Timeline: You want to know your
history, your dates and facts. This should get you on the right road.
Doctrines overview: a good
overview of the doctrines thought of during this powerful time that formed the
Christian church.
Heresies overview: Most haven’t
heard of Gnostics or the Judaizers, here, one gets
their chance
Early Church Fathers overview:
These men really came forth and explained and expanded on what we know during
that critical time period.
The Early creeds:
The important creed for use during baptism in living [cold running] water (a
stream would do quite well)
Section 3b: The Documents, Epistles, Gospels
that formed the primitive church
The Didache:
Known as the first Christian document
The Gospel of
Thomas: The Infamous Gnostic gospel
Section 4: Early Church father specifics
The doctrinally sound: these are
the generally sound accepted church fathers, like Polycarp, Clement or Ignatius
Ignatius: The
cornerstone for all RCC doctrine, and a powerful voice for Unity. His emphasis
on the authority of Bishops bothers me.
The leaven: these can be
partially accepted leaders such as Tertullian who became a heretical montanist
The heretics: these being
heretics from the start, most are usually Gnostics or Sabellians
(‘Oneness’)
Section 5:
Heresy specifics
Why this is important to know: If
your eternity can depend on it, I figure you’d want to read.
Gnostics:
Docetism: Christian Science
rears it’s ancient head
Modern Gnostics: The old platonic
philosophies, and why they don’t die.
Judaizers: The ebionites of old
Modern Judaizers:
usually seen in Messianic or neo-ebionite/Nazarene
groups
Other heresies of the early
church: There were many to be found, some were quite influential like Sabellianism
The impact of those heresies: One
will be surprised how those old heresies are found in today’s church.
Section 6: The Canon
Why is this
important…: It is when one realizes that this is how we got our bible.
Who viewed what as canon: You’d
be surprised to find out who accepted what as canon.
Who viewed what as non-canon: If it wasn’t accepted as canon, was it politics or doctrine?