The early Christians were also thinkers who studied the Scriptures as the “Word of God” and eventually became known (along with their Jewish predecessors) as “People of the Book.” Christians and Jews were students of Scripture. Moses started this educational emphasis many centuries earlier: “These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:6–7 ESV, emphasis mine). Christians continued this
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