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To: dadwags
Come on, JH, you're not really claiming that a man on the way to be executed for the Faith would write that baptism is not really necessary for salvation, would you ?

No, that was Jerome, Ignatius of Antioch from what I have read wasn't such a bad fellow, he never considered himself anything other then a disciple of Christ, and seemed in most writings to be afraid he would say something that would be against what the apostles had written or said.

If we still had his original writings, I think they would be in harmony with the known scripture, but it appears that someone back then tried to use his name to authenticate forgeries that supported there agenda, and it became so screwed up with 8 of the 15 epistles credited to him, being obvious fakes, and the 7 remaining having so many interpolations in them, that many historians doubt that any of them were authentic, because there are no authentic remains of his writings to even give us a clue as to what he actually wrote.

If it weren’t for all the deceit that was centered around him because someone was hoping to use him to bridge that 300 year gap between Peter and the official Catholic Church in the 3rd century, your Church may have been able to glean some truth out of it, but they really blew it for you.

But then again, if his writings had what they tried to forge into it, then they wouldn't have had to forge it would they?

320 posted on 10/13/2001 3:58:51 PM PDT by JHavard
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To: JHavard
But then again, if his writings had what they tried to forge into it, then they wouldn't have had to forge it would they

Kinda reminds me of that scene in Braveheart:

"I demand that you recognize these documents"
"Those documents were lies when you wrote them"

LOL

326 posted on 10/13/2001 4:31:26 PM PDT by Havoc
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