Not exact matches
The other view is that the
church was founded in India
at a very
early date (during the course of the first three centuries) by Christians from East Syria.
As we mentioned
earlier, there were Arab Christians throughout the eastern part of the Roman empire as well as in Persia, and a
church with a great missionary spirit might have taken the Gospel to Arabia
at an
earlier date, probably by the end of the second or
early third century.
As far as the winter solstice and Christmas, there is no
date given in scripture for the birth of Christ it may have actually been spring,
early church leaders decided to celebrate it when they did to stamp out other pagan celebrations
at the time.
The doctrine of the Christian
Church was established over the centuries
at Councils
dating from as
early as This article gives the history and background information as to why incense is used in the Greek Orthodox
Church.
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