Timeline for Were only the eleven instructed to 'teach and baptise' or was there a 'Great Commission' made to the entire Church?
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| Jul 4 at 18:57 | history | edited | Tim Pederick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Malapropism: disclaimer _
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| Nov 22, 2023 at 23:47 | history | edited | Tim Pederick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Shorten bit that seemed argumentative.
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| Nov 22, 2023 at 17:11 | history | edited | Tim Pederick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
their job is → it is their job: not the only job they have!
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| Nov 22, 2023 at 16:01 | history | edited | Tim Pederick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
“Certain” makes it sound like I have particular ones in mind. I don’t.
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| Nov 22, 2023 at 15:50 | comment | added | Conrado | 2/2 This closely follows Acts 2:40-42. Peter preached, those who received his words were baptized, then they were added to the church, and then they continued in the doctrine of the apostles (among other things) | |
| Nov 22, 2023 at 15:48 | comment | added | Conrado | 1/2 FWIW, the most widely used Spanish translation, Reina Valera 1960, says "make disciples". The older version says something like "doctrinate all the gentiles, baptizing... and teaching them...". Un-regenerated people are not subject to the body of teaching and governance of Jesus, which is why I think that these (teaching and governance) are included in the second "teaching". Those outside are taught the gospel, then upon receiving it are baptized, then taught the life and structure of the church. | |
| Nov 22, 2023 at 15:32 | history | edited | Tim Pederick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Addressed criticism from comment.
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| Nov 22, 2023 at 15:00 | comment | added | Tim Pederick | @NigelJ Not at all! I don’t envisage any such thing. To my mind, it is tautological to say that “to disciple” (transitive) means “to make disciples”. What kind of governance structure these disciples are then under is quite absent from my thinking. (I do wonder whether the connotations of “orderly, hierarchical” inherent in the relation of disciple/discipline are at all present in the Greek, where μαθητής shares a root with μανθάνω “learn” and μάθημα “a lesson, learning”. But I don’t know and I make no such assumption.) | |
| Nov 22, 2023 at 14:44 | history | answered | Tim Pederick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |