The book of Acts proves that early Christians regularly attended synagogues

bugkiller said:

Christians do not attend the synagogue.

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Christians are gentiles arent they?

Acts 15:19-21
19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

So this here proves the Gentiles would be going to the synagogues every Sabbath

1John2:4 said:

I don't doubt you spend time with God, I can only speak from my own experience. When I used to read and study in the morning I felt rushed and always had my to-do list on my mind. Now I do the majority of my study on Shabbat, I can watch the sun come up while reading the word, it's my special un interrupted time with God. I like your suggestion of using another version of the Bible not just English. Thanks for the suggestion.

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I accept your testimony. I question the purpose, though. Why? Personally I think you are trying to show that same thing can not be done on Sunday.

bugkiller

yeshuaslavejeff said:

42 But the Jews having gone out of the synagogue, the gentiles begged that these words be spoken to them on the next Sabbath

(Another clear proof that the believers were meeting on the Sabbath and not on s..day, for if the gentiles were meeting on s..day, then why would they have to wait a whole week to hear Paul preach again, they simply would have continued the discussion the next day.)
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Nothing new. Still the same as it is written. Just like then in this regards.

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Again these people were not recorded as being Christians.

bugkiller

SAAN said:

So this here proves the Gentiles would be going to the synagogues every Sabbath

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Only the righteous gentiles; the few seeking YHWH. Most gentiles always reject YHWH and Y'SHUA MESSIAH.

SAAN said:

Christians are gentiles arent they?

Acts 15:19-21
19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

So this here proves the Gentiles would be going to the synagogues every Sabbath

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So you insist that Christians were in the synagogue for many generations. Really? Just how old was what we call Christianity? Was it more than 100 years which would be only 2 and half generations? Two is not considered many.

bugkiller

yeshuaslavejeff said:

Only the righteous gentiles; the few seeking YHWH. Most gentiles always reject YHWH and Y'SHUA MESSIAH.

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I need someone to explain to me how one subscribes to a set of values while rejecting them at the same time. Just read what the Jews did to people who believed in Jesus.

bugkiller

1John2:4 said:

Is repent part of that?

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Affirmative

Cribstyl said:

Affirmative

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Thought so

SAAN said:

Christians are gentiles arent they?

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When the Church began on the Day of Pentecost, Paul addressed the crowd as "all the house of Israel".

Act 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.


The Gentiles were grafted in among the Israelites, later.

Even today, Jews continue to come into the Church through organizations like Word of Messiah Ministries.

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1John2:4 said:

Thought so

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So what are you saying is the gospel?

SAAN said:

Christians are gentiles arent they?

Acts 15:19-21
19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

So this here proves the Gentiles would be going to the synagogues every Sabbath

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Don't get it twisted.
"Moses has been preached throughout many generation" is a reference to the burden of the law that no one could keep.
Act 15:10 So why are you now challenging God by burdening the Gentile believers[fn] with a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors were able to bear?

yeshuaslavejeff said:

Why aren't people healed in most places ?

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Why aren't the Jews all healthy? They go to synagogue.

Why do you have illnesses and continue to age and get sick, you attend synagogue and are a Christian?

Cribstyl said:

Don't get it twisted.
"Moses has been preached throughout many generation" is a reference to the burden of the law that no one could keep.
Act 15:10 So why are you now challenging God by burdening the Gentile believers[fn] with a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors were able to bear?

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The law that no one could keep?
Which commandment of the TORAH were they unable to keep? Which commandment of the TORAH did they NOT do ?

"burden of the law" ?

The same law that led people to MESSIAH ?

The same law that YHWH said set HIS people apart from the ungodly gentile nations ?

So then, just what was and is the "burden" ?

Which commandment of the TORAH is so hard, that no one can do it ? (if that is the "burden of the law that no one can keep" )

Or is the point of YHWH'S WORD THIS: ACTS 15:9 And He made no difference between us and them, but cleansed their hearts by faith (d]">[d]by a strong and welcome conviction that Jesus is the Messiah, through Whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God).

Dkh587 said:

We see Paul in the book of Acts, before his conversion by his encounter with the Messiah, persecuting Christians, believers of Yahushua the Messiah of Nazareth. As we will see, Paul sought out Christians in the synagogues in Damascus, Jerusalem and other cities

Paul was viciously persecuting believers of the Messiah. It was so bad, he was trying to imprison and put to death believers of Yahushua the Messiah. This is right before his trip to Damascus, where he encountered the Messiah. He was going to seek out believers of The Way(the true original Christians), who were in synagogues

Acts 9:1-2 NIV


On his way to Damascus(to persecute Christians in the synagogues), he encountered the Messiah

Acts 9:3 NIV



At another time, Paul was talking to Agrippa and told him how he had Christians put in jail, and he also cosigned their death sentences. He was going to synagogues, not to churches, to search for them. He was specifically searching for believers of The Way. He knew they were there, proving that Christians were indeed attending synagogues at this point in time, not churches.

Acts 26:9-11 NIV



In Acts 22, Paul confesses directly to the Messiah that everyone knew he was going from synagogue to synagogue beating and imprisoning believers of Yahushua(Christians - The Way). He even confessed his involvement and approval of Stephen's murder

Acts 22:19-20 NIV


We have enough scriptural witnesses to prove that the early believers - The Way - the original "Christians", were attending synagogues and not churches

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The title of this thread is misleading. IE:

It is true that most Christians (in the beginning of Christianity) worshiped in Synagogues BECAUSE the FIRST Christians WERE those who call themselves "Jews". AND...because the number of "churches" were VERY small compared to synagogues during the "Acts of the Apostles".

However, that would SOON change, as Jesus caused "churches" to spring up in every direction exponentially; and eventually all over the "free" world. ALSO: 40 yrs AFTER Jesus was crucified, Jesus allowed the Romans UNDER "Titus" to come down to the "Holy City" and destroy it, their protective wall AND their Holy Temple; not to mention driving all the "Jews" of said "Holy City" into the caves and hills surrounding Jerusalem; and they were then scattered all over the world BECAUSE they REFUSED to accept Jesus as the Messiah and ONLY true God.

The reason for this, and FEW Christians AND/or those who call themselves "Jews" have ever understood that Jesus (God Almighty manifest IN the flesh-1 Timothy 3:16) turned His back forever on "judaism" and EVERY one that practiced same. This is why the Holy City AND the Holy Temple has NEVER been rebuilt. And it will never be rebuilt; regardless of what Christian preachers like John Hagee and Hal Lindsay, etc, etc, espouse.

In a word; ALL who call themselves "Jews", from AD 70; that do not surrender to Jesus totally (less than 1% ever have); are cursed by Jesus forever. So is that land and every thing about that land. Oh indeed yes. Whether any one believes it or not. The ONLY true "Jews" on this planet are "Born Again" Christians (be they "Jews or Gentiles, males or females". Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, (and ONLY if you "be Christ's) then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Those who call themselves "Jews" (that do not surrender totally to Jesus) are nothing but "Liars" and "Synagogues of satan". Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy (The Born Again Christian) feet, and to know that I have loved thee (instead of those who call themselves "Jews, who do not surrender totally to Jesus-the ONLY true God).

I will be flamed from here to eternity for posting this; but ALL will KNOW this to be fact absolute on "Judgment Day"; when ALL truth WILL be revealed. Oh indeed yes.

Mark me words.

And may Jesus bless you and yours always,

patdee

In Luke 4 Jesus was preaching at a synagogue in Nazareth. He read from the scroll of Isaiah and told them the writing was about himself. They accused him of blasphemy and conspired to toss him over a precipice. He was able to escape from the
mob.

After Lazarus was resurrected, Jesus could no longer enter a synagogue.
John 11:45 (WEB)
45 Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs. 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." 51 Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
54Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim (Samaria). He stayed there with his disciples.

John 16:1 (WEB) "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

You may try preaching Yeshua in a synagogue and then learn how long they let you stay. I was part of a Biblical archaeology lecture society comprised of Christians and Jews. The president of the society was Jewish. He told me they had to excommunicate a couple for inviting a Jewish couple to their church. We had supper in a restaurant before a lecture in the same restaurant. There were mainly Old Testament lecture topics with occasional Christian lecture topics. Attendance was voluntary. Invitations were sent by mail.

Paul, and others, went to the Synagogues and to house churches. The gentile Christians certainly didn't go to Synagogues, but rather had Churches in their houses. Justin Martyr never mentioned Synagogues as the regular place of Christian worship. AS Christianity moved further away from the original Jewish converts and more and more to the Gentile Christians, (especially after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD), the practice of going to Synagogues for Christian worship ended. Besides, much of what Peter, John and Paul were doing in going to the Synagogues was trying to convert their Jewish brothers to the truth of the Gospel.

Cribstyl said:

So what are you saying is the gospel?

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I think you pretty much nailed it, just missed that one part

bugkiller said:

I accept your testimony. I question the purpose, though. Why? Personally I think you are trying to show that same thing can not be done on Sunday.

bugkiller

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Thanks for accepting my testimony, on Sunday I gotta get stuff done, I have to get to the grocery store before everyone gets out of church, work week starts Monday . That is why I love my Sabbath rest, no worries, no craziness just Shalom in the home.

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dqhall said:

In Luke 4 Jesus was preaching at a synagogue in Nazareth. He read from the scroll of Isaiah and told them the writing was about himself. They accused him of blasphemy and conspired to toss him over a precipice. He was able to escape from the
mob.

After Lazarus was resurrected, Jesus could no longer enter a synagogue.
John 11:45 (WEB)
45 Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs. 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." 51 Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
54Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim (Samaria). He stayed there with his disciples.

John 16:1 (WEB) "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

You may try preaching Yeshua in a synagogue and then learn how long they let you stay. I was part of a Biblical archaeology lecture society comprised of Christians and Jews. The president of the society was Jewish. He told me they had to excommunicate a couple for inviting a Jewish couple to their church. We had supper in a restaurant before a lecture in the same restaurant. There were mainly Old Testament lecture topics with occasional Christian lecture topics. Attendance was voluntary. Invitations were sent by mail.

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Its like teaching the Torah in the churches.

Dkh587 said:

We see Paul in the book of Acts, before his conversion by his encounter with the Messiah, persecuting Christians, believers of Yahushua the Messiah of Nazareth. As we will see, Paul sought out Christians in the synagogues in Damascus, Jerusalem and other cities

Paul was viciously persecuting believers of the Messiah. It was so bad, he was trying to imprison and put to death believers of Yahushua the Messiah. This is right before his trip to Damascus, where he encountered the Messiah. He was going to seek out believers of The Way(the true original Christians), who were in synagogues

Acts 9:1-2 NIV


On his way to Damascus(to persecute Christians in the synagogues), he encountered the Messiah

Acts 9:3 NIV



At another time, Paul was talking to Agrippa and told him how he had Christians put in jail, and he also cosigned their death sentences. He was going to synagogues, not to churches, to search for them. He was specifically searching for believers of The Way. He knew they were there, proving that Christians were indeed attending synagogues at this point in time, not churches.

Acts 26:9-11 NIV



In Acts 22, Paul confesses directly to the Messiah that everyone knew he was going from synagogue to synagogue beating and imprisoning believers of Yahushua(Christians - The Way). He even confessed his involvement and approval of Stephen's murder

Acts 22:19-20 NIV


We have enough scriptural witnesses to prove that the early believers - The Way - the original "Christians", were attending synagogues and not churches

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The leaders of the synagogues in Jerusalem and the Sanhedrin were "the law" in Jerusalem. Of course, Paul wrote letters to the leaders of the synagogues to help him to imprison the Jews who had converted to the Way. These Jews who had converted to the Way were considered to be heretics. These Jewish leaders had the authority to police other Jews.