(January 15, 2015 at 9:44 pm)Davka Wrote:(January 15, 2015 at 7:41 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: What is it about the works you listed that cause issues for Christians? I have only read itty-bitty excerpts from some of them. I liked some of Origen's ideas about salvation. Just curious.
In a nutshell, Christianity today looks almost nothing like Christianity circa 200 CE. These people are considered the Church Fathers, but they look more like the crazy uncle nobody talks about.
I read the surviving letter from Polycarp and started slogging through 1 Clement last night. They would certainly bore a person to death.