RE: Why be good?
June 11, 2015 at 4:33 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2015 at 4:34 am by pocaracas.)
Hey Randy... I'm still waiting for you to read up on what "truth" is... 
In the meantime, I'll nag you with one detail.. perhaps it's my history that's awry on this detail, but you'll know.
I'm hiding all the stuff I don't care about on this quote:
I saw a mentioning of a church of Rome... dated from the year 200... prior to the establishment (as far as I'm aware) of the actual Roman Catholic Church by Constantine with the Council of Nicaea.
It feels like the guy is talking about something that didn't exist yet.
Or am I to assume as true the legend that a guy named Peter actually went to Rome and successfully started a church?
Also, please avoid writing in red or green, as they are the colors that admins and mods use, respectively, in their official capacities, and may be misinterpreted.

In the meantime, I'll nag you with one detail.. perhaps it's my history that's awry on this detail, but you'll know.
I'm hiding all the stuff I don't care about on this quote:
(June 10, 2015 at 8:27 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
IrenaeusThe Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world, as we have already said (Against Heresies 1:10 [A.D. 189]).
Tertullian
“Where was [the heretic] Marcian, that shipmaster of Pontus, the zealous student of Stoicism? Where was Valentinus, the disciple of Platonism? For it is evident that those men lived not so long ago – in the reign of Antoninus [AD 138-161] for the most part – and that they at first were believers in the doctrine of the Catholic Church, in the church of Rome under the episcopate of the blessed Eleutherus [AD 175-189], until on account of their ever restless curiosity, with which they even infected the brethren, they were more than once expelled. . . . Afterward . . . Marcian professed repentance and agreed to the conditions granted to him – that he should receive reconciliation if he restored to the Church all the others whom he had been training for perdition; he was prevented, however, by death.” (Demurrer Against the Heretics, 20, [A.D. 200]).
I saw a mentioning of a church of Rome... dated from the year 200... prior to the establishment (as far as I'm aware) of the actual Roman Catholic Church by Constantine with the Council of Nicaea.
It feels like the guy is talking about something that didn't exist yet.
Or am I to assume as true the legend that a guy named Peter actually went to Rome and successfully started a church?
Also, please avoid writing in red or green, as they are the colors that admins and mods use, respectively, in their official capacities, and may be misinterpreted.