[wmfights]

"Protestants cannot explain the fact that the early Church, spread all over the known world, held to the same Catholic faith."
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You've confused me with another poster who didn't want to answer questions and then accused me of ad hominen attacks.

The point I was trying to get across was the idea that Christianity was totally unified is a myth. There have been all types of different sects, including RC, from the beginning. Tertullian is just one example, he is not a St. in the RCC because he became a Montanist (similar to Pentecostals) later in his life.

The same mythology applies to the idea that Peter was some kind of "super" Apostle, or the belief that the RCC founded the Canon.

[Uncle Chip]

I didn't realize that Tertullian had been denied sainthood.
Does that mean that he is not considered part of the patriarchal tradition of the RCC? How many other early Christian writers are also excluded from the RCC's list of acceptable patriarchs?

[Iscool]

I suspect you didn't intend to post to me...

[PageMarker]

What bothers me about the Roman Catholic Church are the new ICEL hegelian dialectics of retranslated Scripture. I end up having to confess as "the Word of God" that which cannot be found in any Bible on the face of the earth. It comes as little surprise that 'ecclesiastical freemasonry' has entered the Church as is looking to destroy the Faith from within. The Jesuits and the Opus Dei are filled with illuminati elements whose objectives are to 'dumb down and destroy' the true beauty of what the Church really teaches masked in the relativism of New Age philosophies.