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To: Outership
Romeians didn’t come around until centuries after Christ.

What is a "Romeian"?

Plenty of people have made claims about the Catholic Church supposedly being invented by Constantine, etc. None of those claims withstand a simple examination of the facts.

For example, around AD 107, we have Ignatius of Antioch, who knew the Apostles personally, and knew Polycarp of Smyrna (another second generation disciple who learned his Christianity from the Apostle John), writing letters on his way to martyrdom.

In those letters, he calls the Eucharist the "medicine of immortality" and writes of heretics "who deny that the Eucharist is the flesh of Our Lord Jesus Christ". He says that it is better not to even speak of those men.

He also refers to himself as the "bishop of the Catholic Church in Syria".

Around 70 years later, around AD 180, we have Irenaeus of Lyons, a third generation disciple (disciple of Polycarp, who was a disciple of John), who wrote:

Since, however, it would be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, whether by an evil self-pleasing, by vainglory, or by blindness and perverse opinion, assemble in unauthorized meetings; [we do this, I say,] by indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; as also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops. For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on account of its preeminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as the tradition has been preserved continuously by those [faithful men] who exist everywhere. [Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.3.2

310 posted on 04/30/2010 7:48:15 PM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed imposter")
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377 posted on 04/30/2010 9:35:23 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Campion

I’m not interested in the tedious refutation of the hogwash in that post.

Enjoy your fantasies as long as you can.

They aren’t very impressive and neither are your sources to support them.


390 posted on 04/30/2010 9:45:38 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Campion
For example, around AD 107, we have Ignatius of Antioch, who knew the Apostles personally, and knew Polycarp of Smyrna (another second generation disciple who learned his Christianity from the Apostle John), writing letters on his way to martyrdom.

The writings of 'Ignatius' were fabricated...Forgeries...You may as well quote from a Pearl of Great Price...

424 posted on 04/30/2010 11:59:42 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Campion

“What is a “Romeian”?”

People who follow and obey the man made doctrines of some sin-filled fallen men who have kept their center of operations in Rome since their founding.

I appreciate your candor in acknowledging that many have stated the Rome religion was invented centuries after the time of Christ and its invented history simply hijacked the names of some people living in Christ’s day, claiming after the fact that they were Romeians.

In the case of your example, it appears one of the people that was rejected from the Body of Christ for not being Christian wrote some papers that Rome later used to build the foundation of their new religion on.


480 posted on 05/01/2010 1:09:28 PM PDT by Outership (Looking for a line by line Book of Revelation Bible study? http://tiny.cc/rPSQc)
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