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#494 When did the Early Church Know that Jesus Is God? - Jimmy Akin

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The Apostles Preaching in the Synagogue

Pliny the Younger was governor of Bethinia, which is in modern Turkey. He would write letters to the emperor and other notables about Christians. And because he's had a list, someone came to him and anonymously presented without revealing who they werePresented a list of people and said the following individuals are all Christians. They do want Jesus recognized as a divine figure. That's indicated, for example, by some of the earliest non Christian references we have to what Christians do. We're not literally eating babies; it's totally innocent but it's also communal gatherings.

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