“”You clearly misunderstand our point. The Church always and everywhere has believed the same things and worshiped in the same manner with minor variations. Heretics, which have been around since Acts in greater or lesser numbers, have not believed the same things The Church has. That’s why we call them heretics, AG. Thus, what you call the “beliefs of the earliest Christians” evidence of which you say The Church destroyed, were really the beliefs of heretics, not Christians.””
Bingo!
One can only imagine how many other groups would be grasping on to even more heretical teachings if the Church had not destroyed them.
It was the Church guided by the Holy Spirit that destroyed what God wanted destroyed!
Wow.
OK...
Thanks for reminding me why I'm a Protestant, SFA.