[Claud]

So what?

Yep. That's the attitude right there.

So what. Who cares. We can just categorically assert that the early Church was "corrupted" and changed its theology without a stitch of historical proof.

Basically the idea of the pre-Catholic "Biblical Church" that you are carrying around is fake. 100% categorically fake. It never existed except in the imaginations of people like Luther.

[metmom]

Error was creeping into the early church right from the get go.

Paul addressed it in his letters even.

Proximity in time to the early church is no guarantee of being error free or having an extra special ability to *correctly* interpret Scripture or know what the apostles meant when they said something.

And especially 200-300 years later.

Meaningless.

Just look at what has happened to our Constitution and how it’s interpreted within that kind of time frame.

Men are subject to deception and Satan will be trying his hardest to destroy the work of God. Just because they are *big names* from long ago gives them no special ability over and above any other Spirit filled believer.

Because, spiritual matters are SPIRITUALLY discerned.

The man without the Spirit cannot understand them, just like those who even walked with Jesus. Those heard Him teach themselves were unable to understand spiritual matters any better than anyone else. no matter when they lived.

[Elsie]

We can just categorically assert that the early Church was "corrupted" and changed its theology without a stitch of historical proof.

John and the angel might disagree.

Revelation chapters 2&3

[Elsie]

... changed its theology without a stitch of historical proof.

Well; that Luke fella wrote in Acts 15...