[markomalley]

Well....evidently you haven't read the Early Church Fathers because just about everyone one of them writes about Simon Magus and his influence in the city of Rome!

Well, apparently I haven't studied them as closely as you have. Of course, I have enough to do in my life so as not to keep track of Gnostic sects...

But I do see what you're saying about Simon the magician being tracked with that gnositic sect. And I do stand corrected.

As a side question....have you ever wondered why the Apostle Luke spends so much time with this guy. He hardly mentions most of the Apostles.....but spends half a chapter letting us know about this jerk.

You do realize, of course, that the Simon Luke speaks about in Acts 8 is not an apostle, right?

[Diego1618]

You do realize, of course, that the Simon Luke speaks about in Acts 8 is not an apostle, right?

Of course. I was making the point that Luke spends much time describing this guy but barely speaks of most of the Apostles....

Kind of strange...wouldn't you agree? In other words...why is the story of Simon Magus so important to scripture?

[Uncle Chip]

You do realize, of course, that the Simon Luke speaks about in Acts 8 is not an apostle, right?

Correct. And we learn from the ante-Nicene fathers that this Simon Magus went to Rome and established the sacerdotal chair of an ecclesiastical system of a counterfeit Christianity, and this Simon was its first Pope.