Theos-Talk Archives (August 1996 Message tl00434)

In message <90D14F25A7@serv.peb.ufrj.br>, ABRANTES@serv.peb.ufrj.br
writes
>We can not conclude that Gamaliel was a christian. At Acts 5:34 Gamaliel
>protected christians.
>Daniel Rops (LEglise des apotres et des martyrs I,29) cites three hypothesis to
>such protection:
>a question of justice, the secret sympathy of Gamaliel towards christians, a
>desire of Gamaliel
>to to provoke embarass to saducees.

We cannot conclude that any of the apostles were Christians in the
modern sense of the term.  For a long time in the beginning what *later*
became a separate religion was seen as a Jewish sect - which I believe
it was, at that time.

Alan
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