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To: paladin1_dcs

**While we don’t outright doubt the early Church Fathers, we also don’t extend the idea of infallibility to them either.**

This is a new area for me, but I believe the Early Church Fathers did NOT agree on everything.


33 posted on 06/15/2011 9:55:39 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
This is a new area for me, but I believe the Early Church Fathers did NOT agree on everything.

How very true, but the discussions and disagreements we have today are a mean reflection of the millions of hours of thought, study, dedication and scholarship that the early church fathers devoted to the faith and therefore we have much to gain from going over what they battled so hard over -- it means we don't have to do it today -- there is little new or original.

It is almost a conceit we show today in thinking our enominational and doctrinal arguements are original since they were likely settled through the centuries.

38 posted on 06/15/2011 3:21:38 PM PDT by KC Burke
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