[annalex]

The Epistle to the Smyrneans is a historical evidence of beliefs of the 1c Church. You made several historical comments on this thread pertaining to what you think the Early Church was like; here is what is was like in actuality.

[wagglebee]

Many would prefer ignore to historical facts and use their own conceptions of the early Church and then model themselves after that.

[Truth Defender]

The Epistle to the Smyrneans is a historical evidence of beliefs of the 1c Church. You made several historical comments on this thread pertaining to what you think the Early Church was like; here is what is was like in actuality.

I've read it, and many others. The internal contradictions apparent in the many early writings prove that what is said is the viewpoint of any particular writer. None of them possitively state what all the churches were doing at any one time as concerns their practices and beliefs.