you have to love this quote from Justin, he shows the Church taught baptismal regeneration and the Eucharist as the Body of Christ mid-2nd century, while many people who were personally taught by the Apostle John were still alive.
he contended for the Faith once delivered to the saints against unbelievers in his day, just as we deal with these unbelievers in our day.
nothing new under the sun.
History can be a b!.. er, problem, when you're on the wrong side of it.
That is 200 years after the Nt church was founded long enough for the doctrines of men to displace the truth of Christ..
One especially timely in warning the NT church of the pagan heresies to come through Rome
Col 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
And what Faith was that??? Justin Martyr never quoted a verse in the New Testament...
With all the centuries that have gone by, there are relatively few Church fathers you guys turn to for your history...
Makes one wonder how many leaders back in that day wrote things contrary to your religion's belief that have been destroyed or are hidden away in your secret Vatican archives...
Or how many other unmentioned Church fathers there were who wrote things that were 'too far out' for public consumption...