Challenge for the Protestants

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Where does Scripture say sola Scriptura is “written into the fabric of the New Testament?”
I’d love to answer this, but I’ve already done a little no-no by appealing to Scripture, which is what the OP (am I using that term correctly?) didn’t want. So I’ll read on in this thread, because I find this an interesting question, and I’m not that strong on the ECF’s, and I’ll try to find another thread in which to debate Scripture.🙂
 
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Show me where they are different things. It does not say that.
It does not make that distinction. only one predisposed to that would think they are talking about two seperate things.
Yes they broke bread at the agape mal
could be 100 AD.
Considering that St. Ignatius died around 120 AD, and St. Justin Martyr wrote his first apology around 155 AD, My guess is that the “Lords Supper” or the Eucharist was celebrated as a liturgy at least before this time.
You can argue that it was still an agape meal, but I think St. Justin Martyr shows clearly that it was the Eucharist, bread and wine, which they gave thanks over, and not a meal.

St. Ignatius is showing that there should be a bishop present at the Eucharist, not just something done in the home by lay people.

**St. Ignatius of Antioch **
‘With the Bishop’
Keep yourselves from those evil plants which Jesus Christ does not tend, because they are not the planting of the Father. Not that I have found any division among you, but exceeding purity. For as many as are of God and of Jesus Christ are also with the bishop. And as many as shall, in the exercise of repentance, return into the unity of the Church, these, too, shall belong to God, that they may live according to Jesus Christ. Do not err, my brethren. If any man follows him that makes a schism in the Church, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God. If any one walks according to a strange opinion, he agrees not with the passion [of Christ.]. Take heed, then, to have but one Eucharist. For there is one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup to [show forth] the unity of His blood; one altar; as there is one bishop, along with the presbytery and deacons, my fellow-servants: that so, whatsoever you do, you may do it according to [the will of] God.
-Philadelphians 3-4

St Justin Martyr is saying that you needed to be baptized before you received the Eucharist, and that bread and wine mixed with water was brought out to the laity

St. Justin Martyr‘Mass after baptism’
But we, after we have thus washed him who has been convinced and has assented to our teaching, bring him to the place where those who are called brethren are assembled, in order that we may offer hearty prayers in common for ourselves and for the baptized [illuminated] person, and for all others in every place, that we may be counted worthy, now that we have learned the truth, by our works also to be found good citizens and keepers of the commandments, so that we may be saved with an everlasting salvation. Having ended the prayers, we salute one another with a kiss. There is then brought to the president of the brethren bread and a cup of wine mixed with water; and he taking them, gives praise and glory to the Father of the universe, through the name of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and offers thanks at considerable length for our being counted worthy to receive these things at His hands. And when he has concluded the prayers and thanksgivings, all the people present express their assent by saying Amen. This word Amen answers in the Hebrew language to γένοιτο [so be it]. And when the president has given thanks, and all the people have expressed their assent, those who are called by us deacons give to each of those present to partake of the bread and wine mixed with water over which the thanksgiving was pronounced, and to those who are absent they carry away a portion. And this food is called among us Εὐχαριστία [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh. For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels, have thus delivered unto us what was enjoined upon them; that Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, said, “This do in remembrance of Me, Luke 22:19 this is My body;” and that, after the same manner, having taken the cup and given thanks, He said, “This is My blood;” and gave it to them alone. Which the wicked devils have imitated in the mysteries of Mithras, commanding the same thing to be done. For, that bread and a cup of water are placed with certain incantations in the mystic rites of one who is being initiated, you either know or can learn.
  • The First Apology 65-66
 
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