The claim at your link that all of the letters of Ignatius are forgeries is based solely on the fact that they witness to an early Catholic understanding of the hierarchical nature of the church. This is pure rationalization not reason. Even if, as the author suggests, we postpone these letters to AD 250, they show that the pre-Constantinian Christians were Catholic. Nor is there any explanation given for the universal change in Christian thinking and practice or how it came about without controversy. Other than a prejudicial view that Christianity could not have been Catholic at such an early time, there is not reason to reject these letters as forgeries.
Other than a prejudicial view that Christianity could not have been Catholic at such an early time, there is not reason to reject these letters as forgeries.
Except for the inconvenient fact that there are two sets of the same letters...One is pro Catholic and one is not...
The forger not only forged the letters much later than Ignatius lived and died, he added things Ignatius never wrote...
Forgeries abound thru out and within the history of your religion...You can't refute the charges just by denying them...