How was the Christian faith handed down through the years until now .
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People witnessing and proclaiming The Gospel (The Good News)
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If you want the history you might need to pick up a few books, its complicated.
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That’s called church history
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Long game of telephone
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Apostles and their successors (anointed with the laying of the hands). Those same apostles approved the letters that later would become the New testament and denounced the heterodoxy of the early and modern age.
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God provided churches to spread the gospel of Christ in every century with quality faith among believers willing to sacrifice their lives for the gospel and never ceased to build churches as the word of God protected them from severe persecutions.
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Discipleship Training, Seminaries and Reading Books. Read Church History, Historical Theogy Greeg Allison.
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The KJB of course!
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How was it handed down? Not very well.
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Parents, schools, churches, books, preaching, teaching, etc.
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Christian faith- by believing in the resurrection of Christ, and then being killed and persecuted for preaching the Good News.
Christian religion- by all other means -
Read the book of Acts
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Just a thought but perhaps it was not passed down and rather was lost. I mean we look at the way Christ set up his church it, had an actual structure with a prophet at the head, and Apostles and even a Seventy. Over time it seems to me that that structure was lost. And along with that the authority/priesthood was lost. Paul even references it in 2 Thessalonians 2:3
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first”
This is just one of many scriptures where it seems that the latter-days as spoken about by Daniel and other Prophets has to come only after this is a “falling away” .
And I think then it’s put nicely in Acts 3:21 that from this falling away Christ’s original gospel has to be restored.
“21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began”
Now it just comes down to the question of does the restored Church exist?
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Apostolic succession
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Scripture, Creeds, Catechisms, and Tradition
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Through preaching and the Holy Scriptures.
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Acts 2:46-47
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It started in Genesis 3:15
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preserved in the historic church but re planted by the reformers of the 16th century. they used scripture only so it came out of the scriptures which the church always had.
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Thru the Bible and by the Holy Spirit!
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Creeds and families
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Through believers proclaiming God’s word and the convicting and drawing of the Holy Spirit.
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Unfortunately, poorly
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Worship and Obedience to God
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By the Power of the Holy Spirit!
John 16:13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
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Apostles, to bishops (Timothy was a young bishop), to avg. everyday believers. There are still bishops today who pass down the faith. Protestant churches have pastors who go to seminary and learn how to teach the Holy scriptures. Unfortunately, some teachers just get a ministers license and go out to start churches that dont know much about the scriptures. If we as parents want to teach the scriptures to our children, we must know it ourselves.
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The holy spirit
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Through oral tradition until the books were compiled into the bible. Then by both up to now
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The Bible
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Obedient Christians, making disciples of all nations, as Jesus has commanded us to do! If your not sharing the Gospel, you are living in disobedience to the Lord!
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Magisterium, sacred tradition and sacred scripture.
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God’s sovereignty
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Philippians 1:6
[6]Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:If GOD save His People He will Preserve them.
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Orally and written
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READ THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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Child Indoctrination. “Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a ‘Marxist child’ or an ‘Anarchist child’ or a ‘Post-modernist child’. Yet children are routinely labeled with the religion of their parents. We need to encourage people to think carefully before labeling any child too young to know their own opinions, and our adverts will help to do that.” – Richard Dawkins
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God
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By the Spirit
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we have God’s infallible immutable Word
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