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To: LurkingSince'98; COL. FLAGG; metmom; daniel1212; boatbums; CynicalBear; Gamecock; Alex Murphy; ...

>>The first problem that I will address is that the majority of protestants, do not believe that anything written after the death of the last apostle is divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. As such they do not read and are ignorant of the Didache http://www.paracletepress.com/didache.html, which was used to instruct catechumens in the first century.<<

Since the assertion is the Catholic church gave us the Bible, then why did not the church fathers include the post apostolic period divine revelations? If they included such writings, practices and traditions in the Bible then we would not be having this conversation.

There are a few potential reasons why the church fathers did not include these other writings. The first would be they made a grave error in doing so would put to rest the claim of an infallible magesterium. Second it could be there was not consensus among them to add to the NT. And finally based on the second point they established apostolic authority as the screening criteria. The last point is well documented in the writings of the church fathers.

Lastly, you have a multitude of evangelicals and protestants here on FR who know the church fathers from their Catholic upbringing and Catholic university education. The Didache is quoted often but when one reads it, there is nothing there to promote the Roman Church we see today. It is not a “smoking gun.”


414 posted on 03/22/2014 12:56:27 PM PDT by redleghunter (For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’”)
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To: LurkingSince'98; redleghunter; metmom; daniel1212
As such they do not read and are ignorant of the Didache http://www.paracletepress.com/didache.html, which was used to instruct catechumens in the first century.

On the contrary I've read the Didache and much of the church fathers, especially Augustine. I'm pretty sure it's the Papists who are actually quite ignorant of them, otherwise they would become Protestants.

416 posted on 03/22/2014 1:24:33 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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That’s not even taking into consideration the contradictions to scripture contained in them such as the one I posted.


438 posted on 03/22/2014 4:31:55 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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