E202: The Unwritten Years of Early Christianity w/Voice of Reason
The Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
How did the Apostles pass down the wisdom Jesus shared with the early Church? What do the writings of the earliest Church leaders reveal about key practices like the authority of the Bishop and the blessing of the bread and wine? Get ready for an eye-opening conversation with the insightful (and humble) Alex Jurado. A powerhouse in Catholic-Protestant debates, Alex approaches every discussion with love and a commitment to finding common ground.
Alex's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@VoiceOfReason_
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00:00 - Intro
04:31 - Acts of the Apostles & Early Church
08:19 - Only half of the apostles gave us writing
08:45 - Cozy Earth
09:40 - What did Christianity look like before the Bible?
13:06 - What is dogma?
14:56 - Apparent Contradictions in the Gospels
18:11 - Covenant Eyes
19:15 - Many have attempted an account of Jesus’ life
21:07 - Luke is most accurate ancient source
28:53 - Hallow
30:06 - Original house church
30:59 - Didache and Early Church
34:02 - How do we know early Eucharistic beliefs?
38:49 - How did John Calvin respond to Ignatius of Antioch?
51:27 - Church Councils
56:41 - “Call no one father”
59:04 - George Janko podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So it's not like Jesus ascended into heaven and everyone's like immediately writing the Bible, right? |
| 0:03.4 | Right. You have a 17 year gap from the ascension of Jesus Christ until when the New Testament |
| 0:07.8 | started to be written, what was going on in those 17 years? What did Christianity look like |
| 0:12.0 | before we had the Bible? Of all over the apostles, less than half of them actually gave us |
| 0:16.6 | writings. What that means, historians have come to that conclusion that Luke is the most accurate |
| 0:21.9 | historical document of ancient times. What did it look like to actually practice the faith at |
| 0:26.4 | that time? It's going to be very controversial. The early church looked. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the Waila Rose show. We're doing something really exciting with this episode and actually the next episode. We're going to be doing part one and part two on early Christianity and the early Christians. What it was really like for the early Christians to follow Jesus Christ, his first apostles, how the Bible was first understood and put together, how the early |
| 0:56.0 | Christians lived, and so much more. We're going to be exploring this topic in this special |
| 0:59.7 | two-part series with Alex Gerardo, an apologist, a Christian apologist, and we're going to be |
| 1:04.6 | returning to this theme in future episodes because one of my passions, I haven't shared this |
| 1:09.0 | really a lot on the podcast before, is history. |
| 1:11.2 | That was my major in college. It's something I've always loved and enjoyed. And I think understanding |
| 1:16.2 | our history as people of conscience, as people who care about growing and becoming the best we can |
| 1:21.4 | be, is essential to our own development. Also, don't forget we have just launched our Supercast. |
| 1:27.3 | Supercast is a special |
| 1:28.2 | exclusive community where we're going to have the Rose Report. That's where I send a weekly |
| 1:32.3 | update with what's on my mind as well as upcoming episodes and guests. You get access behind |
| 1:36.7 | the scenes to ask questions of a guest, have them answered on the podcast and lots of other |
| 1:41.0 | behind the scenes stuff that's going to be really fun. Go check out our new Supercast and The Rose Report at the link in the bio. |
| 1:47.1 | Alex, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:48.8 | Thank you so much for having me back. |
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