I think I read somewhere that the community that gathered around Christ was called 'The Way". Sounds too sixties hippy for me but that's what I read.
The Way was a phrase used to represent those who were being persecuted to death men and woman according tp a law of the fathers .It can be seen in Catholicism same manner of spirit . men requiring other men that a man must teach them as venerable . later when Saul had been born again as Paul the first denomination or sect is given called the Nazarene denomination or The Way as those they persecuted to death
They we now had Paul on the #1 wanted dead or alive. Hoping he would revert back to a law of the fathers . They tried to prove sola scriptura (all things written in the law and the prophets was a heresy and that Paul against must get under a law of the fathers. But Paul rather that worshiping a legion of fathers as if they were a our one father in heaven Paul declare he worshiped the actual unseen God of the fathers turning thing right side up .Inspired from heaven not earthly of the fathers.
Saul as member of fathers had all the right credential and had a zeal for God but not by faith the unseen eternal . But a pagan zeal out of sight out of mind . Kill the misperceived competition No God in their hearts but rather a law of corruotible men . No faith from hearing God .
Acts 22 :3-5 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the
law of the fathers, and was zealous
toward God, as ye all are this day. And I persecuted
this way unto the
death, binding and delivering into prisons
both men and women. As also the
high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also
I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring
them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for
to be punished.
Acts 24:5-6 For we have found t
his man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a
ringleader of the
sect of the Nazarenes: Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to
our law.
Acts 24::12-14 Neither can
they prove the things whereof they now accuse
me. But this I confess unto thee, that after
the way which they call
heresy, so worship
I the
God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
He did not worship or venerate the fathers as if they were gods in the likeness of men .The pagan foundation .
Those who did walk by sight . . out of sight out of mind walked away in unbelief no faith coming from sola scriptura.
One reforming authority the Bible .Not two the law of the fathers.