An honest read of the ecfs shows their consistent inconsistency.
An honest read of the ecfs shows their consistent inconsistency.
Can you provide an example where the ecfs were inconsistent on Baptism.
I just finished reading the article by Ken Hensley. He stated the following: “As I began to read the Fathers, one of the first things that struck me was the way they consistently talked about baptism.” He started with the Letter of Barnabas, then The Shepherd of Hermas, Justin Martyr, and Clement of Alexandria. He said he found many other such quotations and indicated that he did not find any ecfs arguing against the quotations. He went on to say: “In fact, this is the way all of the earliest Christian writers speak of baptism. This is how Christians continue to speak of baptism essentially all the way up to when early forms of Protestantism appeared. Whenever baptism is mentioned, these are the sorts of things that are being said.”
So were there any ecfs that Mr. Hensley may have missed?