Sentences with phrase «claims of other congregations»

During the first two centuries congregations claiming to possess a copy of a letter from an Apostle, or a fragment of a Gospel, or a writing of Paul contested the similar claims of other congregations.

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Then apparently the old stuff was outdated so he sent his son to «fulfill» the old scriptures but then the son doesn't write anything to replace it, then nearly half a century later other people start writing about the son and claim that as the updated word of God in the form of hundreds of letters to the different congregations, mainly from the new «leader» of the Church Paul, who again changed the tenor of the message.