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To: Arthur McGowan
>>YOUR theory is that a majorly heretical, idolatrous practice swept through Christianity in the Fourth Century<<

Ok, let me try this one more time. And please read it this time.

Revelation 2:14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam,

You see there that there was already paganism creepting into the ekklesia. No one knows how that progressed. You're incessant demand to know who spoke up to oppose it is a none issue. The issue is that the apostles didn't teach it. Yet we see it creeping into the assemblies very early. I'm not even sure what you propose to show or prove by claiming no one opposed it.

Prayer to other then the one true God is pagan in origin and Christ and the apostles opposed anything pagan. As I have shown often the Catholic Church has "taken them into their service".

274 posted on 01/22/2015 1:10:49 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear
Question-begging.

YOU say it's pagan.

The apostles opposed anything pagan.

Therefore, the apostles opposed what YOU say is pagan.

The question-begging consists in your not noticing that it's YOU who say it's pagan. You have not established that it's pagan, or that the apostles opposed it.

And you provide no evidence that ANYBODY in Christianity condemned it AT THE TIME IT SUPPOSEDLY STARTED.

I call your attention again to the 1500-year SILENCE on the matter in all of Christendom. You refuse to acknowledge this 1500 years of total silence. Since when do heresies spring up in Christendom--and nobody notices?

276 posted on 01/22/2015 1:23:42 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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