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The Didache
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Sexual immorality is nothing new; adultery, fornication, incest, it's all recorded in the Bible. I suggest you read, e.g. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians and note the issues he confronts in chapters 5 and 6. The Corinthian church knew about and accommodated incestuous immorality. See also 1 Thessalonians 4:3-6 where Paul again targets morality.
In light of the events recorded in Genesis 19 regarding Sodom and the shocking example of sexual abuse recorded in Judges 19, history tells us moral perversion and corruption is nothing new even among God's own people.
Precisely, but that applies to all writings other than Scripture. Jesus prayed saying, "Your word is truth." If we stick with the truth, we'll avoid a great deal of untruth.
God addressed homosexuality and effeminate men In Paul’s writings and instructed the church not to even eat with sexually immoral people which would include those two areas, among others. It seems to be something the church has had to deal with before. So there is nothing new, it’s just different things tend to be the dominant problem during any given period of time.
I don't think that's a major question. There are a lot of early church writings, many of which are very valuable. For instance, the First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians is an excellent followup to Paul's letters to them years earlier. Paul's are in the New Testament, Clement's is not, but that doesn't mean it has no value. However, if we had a New Testament that was the size of an encyclopaedia few people would ever read it.
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To Me it is a bridge. An attempt by the earlier Christian believers to bring together old way to view a relationship with God to the new way brought to the earlier followers of the Son of God. To me, it is an extension of Acts, and the epistles to show people how to relate to one another as equals in Christ. And that reliance on the the Holy Spirit was required to understand the foundation of the Law. Even though it didn't end up canonized, it is still a valid form of commentary on how a life in Christ should be led on a daily basis. The hardest thing for people to accept is that God's Spirit still speaks and still commands today and through works like these give relevance to certain things outside the Bible.
Didache
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The Didache (/ˈdɪdəkeɪ, -ki/; Greek: Διδαχή,, translit. Didakhé, lit. "Teaching"),[1] also known as The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations (Διδαχὴ Κυρίου διὰ τῶν δώδεκα ἀποστόλων τοῖς ἔθνεσιν), is a brief anonymous early Christian treatise written in Koine Greek, dated by modern scholars to the first century.[2] The first line of this treatise is "The teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles (or Nations) by the twelve apostles".[a] The text, parts of which constitute the oldest extant written catechism, has three main sections dealing with Christian ethics, rituals such as baptism and Eucharist, and Church organization. The opening chapters describe the virtuous Way of Life and the wicked Way of Death.[3] The Lord's Prayer is included in full.[3] Baptism is by immersion, or by affusion if immersion is not practical.[3] Fasting is ordered for Wednesdays and Fridays.[3] Two primitive Eucharistic prayers are given.[3] Church organization was at an early stage of development.[3] Itinerant apostles and prophets are important, serving as "chief priests" and possibly celebrating the Eucharist.[3] Meanwhile, local bishops and deacons also have authority and seem to be taking the place of the itinerant ministry.[3]
The Didache is considered the first example of the genre of Church Orders.[3] The Didache reveals how Jewish Christians saw themselves and how they adapted their practice for Gentile Christians.[4] The Didache is similar in several ways to the Gospel of Matthew, perhaps because both texts originated in similar communities.[5] The opening chapters, which also appear in other early Christian texts, are likely derived from an earlier Jewish source.[3]
The Didache is considered part of the group of second-generation Christian writings known as the Apostolic Fathers. The work was considered by some Church Fathers to be a part of the New Testament,[6][7][8] while being rejected by others as spurious or non-canonical,[9][10][11] In the end, it was not accepted into the New Testament canon. However, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church "broader canon" includes the Didascalia, a work which draws on the Didache.
Lost for centuries, a Greek manuscript of the Didache was rediscovered in 1873 by Philotheos Bryennios, Metropolitan of Nicomedia, in the Codex Hierosolymitanus. A Latin version of the first five chapters was discovered in 1900 by J. Schlecht.[12]
Didache
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Didache (/ˈdɪdəkeɪ, -ki/; Greek: Διδαχή,, translit. Didakhé, lit. "Teaching"),[1] also known as The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations (Διδαχὴ Κυρίου διὰ τῶν δώδεκα ἀποστόλων τοῖς ἔθνεσιν), is a brief anonymous early Christian treatise written in Koine Greek, dated by modern scholars to the first century.[2] The first line of this treatise is "The teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles (or Nations) by the twelve apostles".[a] The text, parts of which constitute the oldest extant written catechism, has three main sections dealing with Christian ethics, rituals such as baptism and Eucharist, and Church organization. The opening chapters describe the virtuous Way of Life and the wicked Way of Death.[3] The Lord's Prayer is included in full.[3] Baptism is by immersion, or by affusion if immersion is not practical.[3] Fasting is ordered for Wednesdays and Fridays.[3] Two primitive Eucharistic prayers are given.[3] Church organization was at an early stage of development.[3] Itinerant apostles and prophets are important, serving as "chief priests" and possibly celebrating the Eucharist.[3] Meanwhile, local bishops and deacons also have authority and seem to be taking the place of the itinerant ministry.[3]
The Didache is considered the first example of the genre of Church Orders.[3] The Didache reveals how Jewish Christians saw themselves and how they adapted their practice for Gentile Christians.[4] The Didache is similar in several ways to the Gospel of Matthew, perhaps because both texts originated in similar communities.[5] The opening chapters, which also appear in other early Christian texts, are likely derived from an earlier Jewish source.[3]
The Didache is considered part of the group of second-generation Christian writings known as the Apostolic Fathers. The work was considered by some Church Fathers to be a part of the New Testament,[6][7][8] while being rejected by others as spurious or non-canonical,[9][10][11] In the end, it was not accepted into the New Testament canon. However, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church "broader canon" includes the Didascalia, a work which draws on the Didache.
Lost for centuries, a Greek manuscript of the Didache was rediscovered in 1873 by Philotheos Bryennios, Metropolitan of Nicomedia, in the Codex Hierosolymitanus. A Latin version of the first five chapters was discovered in 1900 by J. Schlecht.[12]
Chew the meat, spit out the bones.
Great read (though I didn't get through all sections quite yet)
The entirety must have been rejected for a reason, but there are specifics that are fascinating and worthy of further consideration.
The recommendation to fast before baptism is a great suggestion. I think I will bring this up to my congregation.
Thanks Sam
Great read (though I didn't get through all sections quite yet)
The entirety must have been rejected for a reason, but there are specifics that are fascinating and worthy of further consideration.
The recommendation to fast before baptism is a great suggestion. I think I will bring this up to my congregation.
Thanks Sam
But do note that the reason may not be that there is anything specifically wrong with it's teachings. It is nothing more than the church wasn't in universal agreement. It wasn't seen as part of the essential minimum. Or that it had fallen from popularity. Apparently it was very popular in the 2nd century.
Totally agree. Dispute on authorship was often a sticking point. It may have been rejected because there was no direct link to a specific apostle. Overall, good stuff. Will report more if my thoughts when I read more.
Because Scripture is what is read in church.
The canon of Scripture is based on what was used in liturgical worship. The Bible as we know it is what was needed to perform church services. Paper and books were expensive and the canon was already large.
Christ directly references the Book of Enoch several times but because it wasn’t read in church it wasn’t included in the canon (except in Ethiopia).
The Didache isn’t really different from the Bible. It’s just s short alternative collection, so including it in the canon likely didn’t seem necessary. It was more of a pamphlet than a full book.
What do you mean? It is well understood to be very early, and most scholars believe it is first century, for good reason as its use is soundly documented:
Edit: Rather significant point regarding dating based on the content of the text itself.
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Then it's the translation that sounds too trendy megachurch which may dominate the impression...
"Eucharist", for one, and even the term "Christian," which didn't come into vogue until much later. (The early followers of HaMashiach referred to "the Way.")
And 'fornication' has been dealt with already; modern 'addition to.'
And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch (Acts 11:26).
Was that after Acts said they called him 'Jesus', too?
(There's more, but that's sufficient.)
"Since it was discovered in a monastery in Constantinople and published by P. Bryennios in 1883, the Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles has continued to be one of the most disputed of early Christian texts. It has been depicted by scholars as anything between the original of the Apostolic Decree (c. 50 AD) and a late archaising fiction of the early third century."
You can always find a scholar that says anything you like. But the consensus view is first century or early second century at the latest, for many reasons, some of which I summarised above.
Really? That’s interesting.