The Book Of Acts Essay

I have not taken the time to include the writings of the book of Acts in this book so it is going to be absolutely necessary that you read the chapters in the Bible as we discuss them in this writing. This is by no means a complete analysis of the book of Acts but more of an outline, a conversation starter that could lead to many other discussions about the many topics in this first account of "The Church". Luke begins with referring to the gospel of Luke, so certain things are implied. Among them, words like gospel, church, apostles and the kingdom of God . Nowhere do we have concrete proof that Luke wrote the gospel of Luke but it does seem like he wrote this account. And since he refers to the first word that he wrote, "to Theophilus"

We will see later that arguing over who wrote what really doesn't have anything to do with the value of Jesus' words. We still don't know who wrote "Hebrews"; does it matter? So we'll just go with the titles of the implied authors the books have. Interestingly, he uses the Greek word "logos" when referring to his first account. It means word but can also mean "The Word" as in the gospel of John. Words, whether in Greek , Hebrew or English can have different meanings depending on its use in the sentence or context. (Often in the Strongest Strong's Concordance it says "note the many contextual translations" and in another place, pg xv, referring to compound words it says....."These studies should be done carefully with more attention paid to contextual definitions than fanciful etymologies"). Which is another way of saying, words should support the whole thought of the whole conversation than just standing by themselves in a dictionary. Here, the word "logos" just means the previous writing. In John it means the ultimate word, the final word, the beginning and the ending. We're not sure if Theophilus is one person or as the definition of this word "God lover" implies, any person who loves God. As Luke remembers and as he has been told by