[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

[metmom]

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

That's only because the Catholic church claimed that the early Christians were Catholics. That doesn't mean they were.

On the contrary, the Catholic church has long since departed from the early church. It in no way resembles the church in the book of Acts. Of course, that can be said for many (not all) other churches as well. But the Catholic church is certainly no exempt from that error.