[metmom]

if you think you know better than the Early Christians Catholics.

There were others who did not adhere to the developing Catholic doctrines and were considered heretics by the group.

Yeah, the "church fathers" "agreed" to all that, but if you didn't, you weren't a "church father". So Catholics can claim church unity in doctrine because they kicked out anyone who disagreed with them and then offer up as proof that all their "church fathers" agreed in these doctrines.

Convenient, eh?

[Cronos]

There were others who did not adhere to the developing Catholic doctrines and were considered heretics by the group.

Yes, like the Marcionites or Gnostics who believed that the God of the OT was just a demiurge and a false god and Jesus was the son of a "higher" god. Or the Arians who said Jesus was just a created being.

Which of these groups is your cults spiritual forebear?

And thank you for equating Early Christians as being the same as early CAtholics. That is so true — right from Apostolic times, if you read the Didache (written in 70 AD) you can see that the rituals, practises and beliefs of the Early Christians are continued in the beliefs of The Church

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because they kicked out anyone who disagreed with them and then offer up as proof that all their "church fathers" agreed in these doctrines....Convenient, eh?

Ain't that the truth. But since the gates of hell shall not prevail against HIS Church - Luther is chosen to expose the gates of hell. Oops - and he was kicked out!