Quix have you ever read any of the Church fathers who were contemporaries or students of the Apostles. Have you read the history of the Church councils? Do you know how responded to the heresies that threatened it?
Do you honestly think those who learned from the Apostles themselves and who passed on their teachings would have embraced heresy and allowed it to take root in the Church?
If you believe that how can you trust any doctrines arising from that time in Church history? The Trinity, The Divinity of Christ, The Hypostatic Union. Can you defend against the heresy of Gnosticism, Arianism and the like?
Do you know that besides the Immaculate Conception
(though I believe they do hold Mary never committed personal sin) the Orthodox also teach Mary was ever virgin, that she was assumed into Heaven, that she bore God in her womb?
Rather than Catholics and Orthodox building skyscrapers of falsehood. Some Protestant sects have done their best to tear down the citadil of Truth built on the Word of God, both written and given to us through the Traditions of the Apostles and the Fathers.
Do you honestly think those who learned from the Apostles themselves and who passed on their teachings would have embraced heresy and allowed it to take root in the Church?
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Have read some such.
Yes, I absolutely believe the above—I’ve seen it happen in within a matter of weeks to months after a great congregational pastor moving on or graduating to Heaven.
‘Tis human. happens chronically in human groups—ESPECIALLY RELIGIOUS human groups.