The first century AD marketing of the good news New Testament

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The canonized books of the New Testament are 27 books written by 14 or 15 authors. All were written between 40 AD to 100 AD. All books were written in Greek. Jews living in Palestine spoke Aramaic. There are four groupings of books in the New Testament: The four Gospels, Acts, 21 Epistles, and Revelations. 25 to 35 other books were not canonized. The Gospel of John is different; the other three are synoptic. The four Gospels are the GOOD NEWS saga. The Gospels are passionate (to suffer) narratives with a point of view (good news). The Good News is the message of Jesus, the Christ or Messiah — God’s ruler promised by the Scriptures — specifically, the coming Kingdom of God, his death on the cross and resurrection to restore people’s relationship with God, the descent of the Holy Spirit on believers as the helper.
All four gospels were written in the third person. The authors of the gospels were highly educated, Greek-speaking Christians of a later generation. (This would exclude the apostles, who were peasants from Galilee who spoke Aramaic and couldn’t read or write). The Gospels were written from oral traditions. All of the miracles are in the gospel of John. The other three do not contain miracles. Study each of the gospels on their own. They are different accounts of Jesus, with different perspectives.
Good News missionaries converted a family or two, then that family converted others, decade after decade. The good news message sold well, with a word of the mouth marketing plan.
Repent, and belief were the requirements. The Word was God. I am that I am.
Pauline epistles: Most scholars agree that Paul wrote seven of the Pauline epistles, but four of the epistles in Paul’s name are pseudepigraphy (Ephesians, First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus) and that two other epistles are of questionable authorship (Second Thessalonians and Colossians).
When Jesus was on earth, He was a Jew promoting the Jewish religion. Paul changed it to Jesus the Christ, the Savior who was crucified, died, and rose again. Paul converted Gentiles. Those Jews who expected a Messiah’s kingdom on earth were disappointed. The road to Damascus’s conversion of Saul to Paul changed everything. The book of Acts traces the spread of the good news. Of the 21 epistles, Paul wrote 14 of them (or maybe less), and others wrote the remaining 7 (or maybe more). Paul focused on what today is Turkey and Greece. Paul’s epistles were written. First, the rest followed.
Paul had been a Pharisee; they believed that the end was near. They were members of a party that believed in resurrection and following legal traditions that were ascribed not to the Bible but to “the traditions of the fathers.” Like the scribes, they were also well-known legal experts: hence the partial overlap of membership of the two groups. Paul thought that Jesus would be back before he was dead. Paul’s message was that you don’t have to be a Jew to be saved. The word rapture isn’t even in the New Testament. Paul’s epistles were written to the churches that he had started; their purpose was to fix things. Copies of his letters were kept and passed around. Knock-off letters were also circulated. The purpose of these re-writes was to get the author’s point of view out there. Written forgeries were rampant during the first century. Second Peter was the last New Testament book to be written.
The Timothy and Titus writings were pastoral letters that Paul did not write; there were just written in the Pauline style. The spiritually gifted ran the churches. The church gatherings were held in houses.
There was no structure nor leadership. In Paul’s churches, women participated, in some of the other churches, not so much.
The Dead Sea scrolls contain no Christian writings. The Essenes wrote them; they were a Jewish sect. Their first followers were the Pharisees. The group’s second followers were the Sadducees. The third set of the sect’s followers were called Essenes. The Essene sect adhered to a stringent set of disciplines. All members were Jews by birth. The Sadducees were the party of high priests, aristocratic families, and merchants from the wealthier elements of the population. They came under the influence of Hellenism, tended to have good relations with the Roman rulers of Palestine, and generally represented the conservative view within Judaism. They seem to have a greater affection for each other than the other sects had. The scrolls range from small fragments to a complete scroll of the prophet Isaiah and every Hebrew Bible book except Esther and Nehemiah. When they fled, they stored their scrolls in desert caves. The desert’s dry air preserved the scrolls, for the most part.
Gnostics were dualists and worshiped two (or more) gods; Christians were monists who worshiped one God. Gnostics focused on the eradication of ignorance; Christian concern was the eradication of sin. Gnosticism says that humans are divine souls trapped in the ordinary physical (or material) world. They say that an imperfect spirit made the world. The inferior spirit is thought to be the same as the God of Abraham. Some Gnostic groups saw Jesus as sent by the supreme being to bring gnosis to the Earth.
Evil is now; good is later. (After good comes around). Visions usually end with the victory of interest.
Revelations update: John the Revelator had the first century AD in mind when he wrote Revelations. The whore of Babylon was Rome.
The antichrist and the beast were also Rome. The seven heads7 mountains (Rome)
666 Was Nero.
Today, there are 5,500 separate versions of the Bible in existence, and no two are alike.
Every symmetry physics law leads to a conservation law, and every conservation law arises from a symmetry in the laws of physics.
THE LAW THAT CONTROLS ALL PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IS THIS:
ALL THINGS ARE TRIUNE, WITH BINARY INTERACTIVES. THIS IS THE LINKAGE BETWEEN MATTER AND FORCE-CARRYING PARTICLES. FERMIONS AND BOSONS control THE LINKAGE BETWEEN THE PARTICLE ZOO.
THE REALITY OF HOW LIFE FORMS CAME ABOUT ON THIS REMOTE BLUE MARBLE IS THIS: THE EVENT ORIGINATOR WROTE THE CODE, PRODUCED THE BLUEPRINT, AND USED AN EVOLVEMENT PROCESS TO OBTAIN THE REQUISITE RESULT. IT’S ALL JUST A BINARY SOFTWARE PROGRAM.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CODE THAT YOU START WITH.
THE DESIGNER/CREATOR’S PROCESS : (recap).
1ST: Write the code for the upcoming big bang that will create another universe.
(One universe does not an infinity make.)
2nd: Write the code for the design and evolvement for all intended results as the event unfolds.
( One event does not an eternity make).
3rd: Set the event in motion.
(All things are triune, with binary interactives).
4th: Monitor, fine-tune, adjust, and select out on-going.
5th: Use DESIGN AND EVOLVE as the process. Write a separately coded blueprint for the consciousness of the known thought reposers.
- 6th: It’s not the people; it’s the event.
- 7th: Harvesting new crops of known thought reposers is the intended result.
  - ONE EVENT DOES NOT MAKE AN ETERNITY.
  - ONE UNIVERSE DOES NOT MAKE AN INFINITY.
  - EVOLUTION IS ONLY PART OF THE PROCESS USED.
  - ALL THINGS ARE TRIUNE, WITH BINARY INTERACTIVES.
  - BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL IS ONLY GOOD.
  - IT’S NOT THE PEOPLE, ITS THE EVENT.
  - GET BACK TO WHERE YOU ONCE BELONGED.
  - IN THE END, CHOICES ARE NEVER FREE.
  - WHAT TO DO, IS UP TO YOU.
  - GETTING BEYOND EVIL IS A START.
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- The reality of the unseen is beyond your ken.
- It resides on the backside of the space-time continuum.
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- Symmetry is the casual structure built into the creation module. The creation module has a two-way arrow of time that is built into it. All current information is always passed back into the versatile storage unit. These informational totals can’t be changed or deleted.
- The closed sub-atomic quantum system is a duplicate of the macro quantum system. The two systems interact on a binary basis.
The triune combined functions of consciousness, quantum gravity, and quantum entanglement act as one from the underside of the fabric of space-time.
- - DNA is a codebook that issues instructions. DNA is the governing force that issues instructions to specific proteins at specific times, in particular amounts.
  - The gene blueprint regulates gene activity. DNA issues instruction three at a time. DNA is an information structure. It maintains gene production and regulation to deliver the correct gene functions. Genes are networked in a complex sequenced network. The gene network self schedules and provides the required results.
  - Information is physical, and it represents the ultimate nature of reality. These surprisingly simple assertions have many profound consequences. Information theory is the wellspring of our contemporary digital world. The universe is an information network. Life is an informational structure. Quantum gravity interacts with the universe’s knowledge base. This knowledge base stores the human consciousness bits. Growing and keeping the knowledge bytes from the known thought reposer’s production is why this current universe exists. The universe’s information structure built the universe. The information structure then operates this universe. When the universe matures, the consciousness bytes that the known thought reposers had generated are saved. They will be used again in the next universe.
- The triune combined functions of consciousness, quantum gravity, and quantum entanglement act as one from the underside of the fabric of space-time.
THE UNIVERSE GENERATES AND STORES ALL OF THE BITS OF CONSCIOUSNESS. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BYTES.
IT’S FROM BITS, THE UNIVERSE, THAT IS, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BITS.
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