[ladyL]

I know I should not jump in here...I know better...but after reading a couple of articles on Catholicism and now this one...everyone sounding so scholarly? I just have to say...this is all a bunch of man made traditions and a religion that is sooooo far away from Biblical faith. Most of the early church fathers were anti Semitic and their teachings were all colored through this perspective. Junk...just pure junk. Go back to the Gospel Yahshua preached and told His disciples to preach if you want to know the truths of God/YHVH. If not then wallow in the prodigal son's pig pen.

[Steelfish]

Christ commanded to preach “ONE’ truth with clear scriptural basis for Petrine authority based on ONE Church. Otherwise you have a mudslide of interpretations.

“Go back to the Gospel” you say, but that’s what David Koresh and Jim Jones said too. So the early Church fathers were anti-Semitic? That’s what they said of St. John too, and maybe you did not notice but the 12 apostles were all male.

[ravenwolf]

Most of the early church fathers were anti Semitic and their teachings were all colored through this perspective.

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Well I read a new one here, never heard that one before.

[GreensKeeperWillie]

Anti-Semitic or anti Jew? Most of the Apostles were Jews, Jesus and His Mother were Jews. By the end of John’s Gospel it is clear the term Jew was used in a theological construct and had nothing to do with race or DNA.

[Biggirl]

Rather the early Church fathers DID honor Bible based faith via their writings which do refer to scripture.

[Salvation]

I guess you didn’t read the entire article, correct?

**And once non-Catholic Christians start to read these writings of the early Church Fathers, they will soon discover that there were NO Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Mormons, Episcopaleans, etc., anywhere in the Early Church. Those traditions of men were all started centuries later, based on what people thought Jesus’ Church was all about, rather than on what it actually was.**

THESE are the man-made religions.