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To: Claud
"You made a historical claim that the Fathers attest to a “progressive accretion of traditions of men”...I presume by the Catholic Church. What is your historical evidence of that?"

I am sorry that apparently you still do not comprehend what I meant, which is not that these "Fathers" attest that these are traditions of men, but that rather by their positive teaching of these unScripture distinctive Catholic teachings - for support of which you invoke them for - then by way of this evidence they attest to a progressive accretion of traditions of men. The issue remains that these are not manifest in the only wholly inspired-of-God and substantive record of what the NT church believed, which is why Catholic selective invoke so-called "church fathers."

29 posted on 06/21/2021 2:33:25 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212

Well then I guess you don’t see the flaw in your argument.

You start off with your wrong assumptions about the NT Church. But the Fathers say otherwise. So “Aha!” you say, “clearly the Fathers departed from the NT Church!”

Instead of realizing that there was no departure whatsoever, your initial assumptions were just wrong from the get-go.


30 posted on 06/21/2021 5:03:55 PM PDT by Claud
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