bootsiebabe wrote:
Thanks. So, my question would be... how many other "churches" were already founded in Antioch preceding that moment. How many developed afterward. Is that specific group still around? Is that specific group mentioned in the book of Revelation as one of the seven churches? What defined "christian" at that moment of time by the writer of that passage.
Very interesting questions!  I've wondered the same things, myself.  From what I have been able to study and dig out,....is that the oldest churches (that are still surviving in some form)...are the Celtic Christian Church, (Scotland, and Ireland area).....and the "Coptic" Church (also called the "Eastern Oriental Othodox Church" of Northern Africa (Egypt and Ethiopia area).  The Celtic Christians were mostly Monastic (living in monistaries) (sp?)  and  were mostly wiped out by the Roman Empire,...altho it survives in some form today (somewhat a mixture of early Christianity and the "earth-type" religions of the Druids).   The Coptic Church is still going strong (it's a lot like the Eastern Othodox,...but a little more primitive).  Neither Church is anything like Pentedom!!!