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THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS
Are the writings of the early church fathers equal to the Scriptures?
The writing of the early church fathers are no more the inerrant word of God then are the writings of John Calvin, Martin Luther, Max Lucado, Robert Schuller, Billy Graham, John Knox, Benny Hinn, Joesph Smith, or Mary Baker Eddy.
The only way Scripture is found in the writings of the early church fathers or any other writers, is if their writing were copied directly from Scripture, were repeated verbatim from the Bible, or if their doctrinal positions are synonymous with Scripture.
There are many who accept the writings of the early church fathers as being accurate, authoritative, and Biblically sound doctrine.
If you believe the early church fathers to have been pillars of the church, dependable in their preaching and writings, then, why do you not believe what they wrote?
Tertullian 140-230 A.D. " Baptism itself is a corporal act by which we are plunged into the water, while its effect is spiritual, in that we are freed from our sin."
Are men plunged into water to be sprinkled? Baptism is by immersion and it frees men from sin.
The Epistle of Barnabas 70-100 A.D. "Blessed are they who, placing their trust in the cross, have gone down into the water, indeed descended into the water full of sins and defilement!
Barnabas believed baptism was by immersion. He also taught that men were still in their sins before they were baptized. Barnabas did not teach "faith only" salvation.
Ireneus of Lyons 190 A.D. For we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as new-born babes, even as the Lord has declared: Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter the kingdom of heaven."
Ireneus did not believe in the false doctrine of original sin. He believe new-born babes were without sin. Why do you not believe that?
Theophilus of Antioch 181 A.D. "Moreover, those things which were created from the waters were blessed by God, so that this might also be a sign that men would at a future time recive repentance and remission of sins through water and the bath of regeneration all who proceed to the truth and are born again and receive a blessing from God.
Why do you not trust the church fathers when they say remission of sins is through water?
Cyprain 200-258 A.D. "For he has been sanctified, his sins being put away in baptism, and has been spiritually reformed into a new man, has become fitted for receiving the Holy Spirit; since the apostle says, As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.!
Cyprain says sins are forgiven in baptism making us able to receive the Holy Spirit. It you believe the early church fathers are reliable, why do you not believe that?
Terullian 203 A.D. "Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by washing away sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life... [But] a viper of the [Gnostic] Cainite heresy, lately conversant in this quarter, has carried away a great number with her most venomous doctrine, making it her first aim to destroy baptism...
It you trust Terullian, why do you not believe him when he said some men want to to destroy water baptism and its purpose?
REMEMBER SATAN WANTS YOU DRY OR HE WANTS YOU TO DENY WATER IMMERSION IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. HE WANTS YOU TO SPRINKLE NON-BELIEVING INFANTS FOR NON-EXISTENT ORIGINAL SIN.
When, what the early church fathers said was in agreement with God's written word, it was true.
If you believe what the early church fathers wrote was authoritative, factual, trustworthy, and reliable, then, why not believe what they said even if it is at adds with your denominational catechisms and creed books?
THE BIBLE AND THE BIBLE ALONE SHOULD BE YOUR STANDARD FOR THE TRUTH!
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