Why is it that when you ask a Protestant/Fundamentalist for proof of their ideals in the early Church (when Catholics and Orthodox can really stake the claim), they can't provide a single shred of evidence?
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The Protestant and Catholic religions can claim what they want to, but to know for sure one must study what the first Century Christians taught believed, and practiced.
The Book of Acts records a great deal about the practices of the first Century Christians, and the letters or epistles following that provide an organizational basis for Christianity.
Just for one brief example, consider Acts 5:42 and Acts 20:20. How many religions today do this on a regular basis.
As stated, that is only one of many examples!
The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.
Thus Catholics don't teach and believe what the Early Church believed. Thus they can't truly be in line with or descended from the early church.
The apostles did not even remotely teach the trinity.
Since this is true then Protestant who also teach the trinity can't be descended from the early church.
They at best are an off shoot of the Catholics.
To worship and believe as those taught by Jesus and his twelve apostles one has to reject the trinity.
.Paul tells us at 2 Timothy 4: 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
The trinity is a myth, and those who believe it are having their ears tickled.
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Because the earliest Church fathers were far from protestant/fundamentalists. Check out what they had to say yourselves:
http://www.churchfathers.org/
Here is just a sample:
"See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church." -St Ignatius of Antioch, 110 AD, Epistle to the Smyrnaeans, Ch. 8
Other relevant links:
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/apostolic-successio...
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/scripture-and-tradi...
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/whats-your-authorit...
I'm not really a Protestant. However, I can say that if you want to know about the truly earliest church it's in the book of Acts.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever. He doesn't change. Still fills people with the holy Spirit. His power has not not waned since those days. He is just as able to give us miracles and the holy Spirit if we seek it as He was then.
https://ontheword.wordpress.com/on-salvation/
what exactly are you talking about because our most fundamental ideal is that you must be born again to get a place in the kingdom of God and we can show the evidence that Jesus himself said that in john 3:3, which totally predates any of the catholic or orthodox beliefs.
Guess what!! There are many now saying that the hollocause never happened. You say there is proof but they say there is not. That is the same way christianity is. We know it is truth. There is proof both historically and documentation but they are saying it is not true. Don't say there is proof about the holocaust because there are still some who do not believe it and that is the same way about christianity. The Bible is documentation and historical books report it so there!
Not sure what you are asking.
Christianity is based in God's inerrant word of the Bible and Jesus Christ because He is God.
Christianity is not based in or founded by the Roman Catholic or Orthodox church.
Well it's hard to reconcile the belief Christianity stretches back to Jesus while also not admitting Catholicism is Christianity.
The answer is obvious - Fundamentalism doesn't go back that far.