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 | | Instead he asks us to believe that Christianity -- an ancient religion of salvation, with a godman, baptism, a sacred meal shared with the god, heaven, hell, etc -- was completely unrelated to all the other ancient religions of salvation -- with godmen, baptism, sacred meals shared with the god, heaven, hell, etc -- because... |
 | | Christians are never called hiepoi, nor are hieron and naos ever used of their place of meeting. |
 | | Both of the Christian sacraments, in their earliest phase, were considered to be primarily dono data, namely blessings conveyed to those who by nature were unfit to participate in the new order inaugurated by the person and work of Jesus Christ. |
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