[D-fendr]

I think the Authorized Protestant View is that the history of the Church ended with the last sentences in Acts.

[Cronos]

"I think the Authorized Protestant View is that the history of the Church ended with the last sentences in Acts."

Then why would Rn argue with us on what Early Christians practised? perhaps it's because history and all proof shows that the Eucharist, priests etc. that they had is what was passed down through The Church. Perhaps some groupings here think that in the 1st century itself people got it wrong and it was only corrected 2000 years later?

[Mad Dawg]

I think the theory is:
At the end of Acts, the true believers suddenly went underground. All traces of their occasional sallies from shadow were obliterated by us until finally in the 16th century God redeemed his own and brought them out, singing and translating truncated Testaments, from an invisible captivity.

Evidently the deity of their religion was musing, or had gone aside, or was on a journey, or perhaps sleeping and needed to be awakened. In any event the gates of the Ho' of Bab'lon prevailed against the true believers for almost a millennium and a half.