In my mind, the first 300 years of Christianity (30 AD through 330 AD), the Christian Church was pristine.

[JustaServant]

No

How would you like it if I asked: Isn’t the origin of pederasty Catholic?

How about answering the questions in the thread YOU started?
Or was it ‘hit and run’?

 

[FabiusMaximus]

No

How would you like it if I asked: Isn’t the origin of pederasty Catholic?

The difference is that the Prosperity Gospel really did originate in an Evangelical setting. You just gave a really cheap shot.

 

[JustaServant]

The difference is that the Prosperity Gospel really did originate in an Evangelical setting. You just gave a really cheap shot.

Cheap shots are the immature way of losing an argument.
He might as well have said “Yeah? Well…you’re mother’s fat!!”
Sure hope this guy ain’t a preacher.

 

[pablope]

Pristine… probably not. Read the letters to the Corninthians, they were always doing something kooky.

And Clement of Rome’s epistle to Corinth…about how they rejected or deposed two appointed priests…and how Clement exhorted to be returned rightfully.