Wednesday, May 16, 2018

the author of "acts" and how to fix the title.

in the book called "new testament" only one part has a title which starts with the letter "a"  it is called acts but should have a more accurate title because "acts" just describes the contents. considering that part is the second letter to theo. it should be called title second theo but who wrote it? t
oral tradition teaches luke wrote it and that generates many problems. firstly luke is only mentioned by name in col. 4.14 and never once is that name written in this section nor in the gospel of luke. in contrast to paul,  we never find "i luke am writing". g .
because we know that luke wrote it, therefore it should not even be in the group of holy books because only "apostolic" parts  were decided to include and luke was not one of the apostles. this part and the part named "luke" [first letter to theo.] should not be included.
 it should suffice to summarize the contents of the epistle instead of including the entire section and every word.  this second letter to theo. called "acts" should be titled 2 theopilus and rejected as above.
summary
this letter describes the "spread" of the idea of the new covenant beyond jerusalem throughout the land then named "israel". l
one 1 "to theophilus. jesus went up in a cloud" and tells that followers of jesus organized in jerusalem in the land then named israel. note: the name israel  appears 21 times in this letter. the group contained people who spoke one of the following languages: aramaic hebrew or greek  2 holy spirit was revealed on pentacost 3 story of stephen, his trial speech and execution 4 paul traveled and taught in many places throughout the land called israel and beyond for example galatia 16.6 5 later also thesolonica corinth and ephesus 6  the trial of paul ends the letter which should not be included
this summary should replace the two parts called "luke and acts" because according to tradition the author was luke who was not apostle so only include apostolic not  include  these so just a summary of the second part. in fact the stories parallel to luke are preserved  in other books so this summary is enuf. the end.

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