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To study the early church is to become Catholic.
I was born an Anglican. Then I read Theology at Oxford with the idea of ordination. I therefore had to read the Bible several times over, in every conceivable direction. After that I had to read the Patristic Fathers, the Scholastics, the Reformers and the Tractarians, as well as Barth, Bonhoeffer and others.
So naturally I became a Catholic.
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I’d be very delusional to not trust the words of someone who was taught directly by the apostles and died as holy martyrs.
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The NT were the words God spoke through the apostles. Before a single page of the NT was ever written, the apostles spoke and taught them orally.
Let that sink in!
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FALSE!!!
In 1 John 1:2, Jesus is explicitly identified as the ETERNAL LIFE who was WITH the Father—the Father is never called that, only the Son.
1 John 5:20 says He ("His Son Jesus Christ") is "the TRUE GOD & ETERNAL LIFE."
If you are the ETERNAL LIFE, you are the TRUE GOD.
That’s not what the verse says.
1 John 5:20 says that the Son of God came to give us understanding of “him who is true.”
The verse distinguishes Jesus, the Son of God, from the One he came to reveal.
This is consistent with John 17:3, where Jesus identifies the Father as “the only true God” and himself as the one whom God sent.
Rather than proving the Trinity, this passage supports the distinction between Jesus and his God and Father.
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The Bible is simple.
Romans 10:13 — “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Acts 22:16 — “Get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.”
Calling on the name of the Lord = Being baptized = Sins forgiven = Saved
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There is no getting around this!
Baptism saves and if you disagree, you’re not a Christian!
Oh, it’s WATER BAPTISM if you read in context
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The biggest threat to Christianity isn't atheism. It's fake Christianity.
A gospel with no repentance.
A faith with no obedience.
A church with no truth.
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Yes. Origen (c. 248) wrote that the Church received from the apostles the tradition of baptizing infants, as they knew of innate sin stains needing washing by water and Spirit. Augustine later called the custom apostolic, held by the universal Church from the start rather than invented by councils. Hippolytus (c. 215) already directed baptizing little children first.
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God created Eve without sin, and she became the mother of all the living and brought death into the world. Would He give less grace to the woman who brought Life into the world?
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The Church Fathers unanimously taught that Mary was sinless.
You won't find a single quote from a Church Father explicitly saying that Mary sinned.
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"Catholic Church did this or that"
"Catholic Church is this or that"
Get in here and tell us about it.
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