Wait a minute — weren’t you guys also discussing this in 430 AD when Attila was at the gates? :) and then Alaric sacked the city later? and in 999? and when the Mongols threatened Europe? and on September 11, 1683 :)
No we are not the same guys who were discussing that in all of those other periods, unless we have been dying and re-incarnating at the exact time periods to be alive to discuss this when those events occured.
Which is possibly possible, but is not a sure thing. If so, I wish I could remember what it was like in each of those life times, then I could write a possibly best selling book.
Heh! Maybe so, but GreyFriar's mention of "1st Century" was in reference to a small group called "First Century Christianity" that met at our church from 1989 to 2006. We were trying to re-discover what a meeting of Christians was like before all the church councils and doctrines and dogmas and such that originated after AD 100. Among many other topics, we discussed John's Revelation and what it would mean to us if we had just received a copy of it.