Hey, everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and, you know, a few days ago, we hung out in Iconium for a long time. The days before that, we went and dust it off whatever we could to try to find some secrets in old Leistra and Derby. But for the last few days, we've been palling around in Pasidion, Antioch, on the frontier between Galatia, Phrygia, and Pisidia. And what do you know? We're learning stuff. And it's painting a picture of how Christianity turned out in the part of the world that the letter of Galatians was written to in the first place. And I've got a bit more that I want to dust off there today. So we're going to do that.

And then at the end of this conversation,

it will be time for our grand proclamation as to our historical question of whether or not Christianity worked out for the churches that originally received the letter to the Galatians.

All right.

We're going to pick up where we left off right now.

Jeffrey play some music.

And here we go.

Obviously, this was a very pro-Roman town since everybody there owed the property they had, or at least all the

Romans did, to the blessing of the emperor. So they built a whole temple early on to Caesar

Augustus. But within three or four hundred years, the archaeological records tell us that they

converted the temple of Caesar Augustus into a church, you know, to Jesus from the Bible.

So that tells a story, right? To convert the most impressive ancient temple, the connection back to

old Rome and the founding myths of your town, to convert that to a church? Dang, that's a pretty big deal.

We know the names of a couple of bishops who were there. A guy, I don't know these people,

I got to look closely at my notes here, a guy named Optamianus. Optomianus. That's a pretty cool

name. I mean, I didn't say it cool enough, but it's a real cool name. And then Eustathius. That's not as cool a name. Ustathius. Ustathius. Opthamianus. Yeah, no comparison between the two. But optamianus was invited to the council of Constantinople and Eustathius was invited to the council of Calcedon.

If you don't know what those councils are, that's okay.

It would be a huge honor to get invited to that.

And what it means is like only the bishops from the really big churches, the really influential ones, would have got that invite.

So what that tells us is that in the 300s and 400s, Christianity was doing very well.

And either overtly or secondarily, both of those councils very much affirmed the theology of Paul

and the theology of the book of Galatians, causing me to say that the Bible gives us the

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