And…the longer you read and study the history of the Apostolic Church’s what becomes abundantly clear is that the Catholic Church takes no account of popularity and its own numbers in developing Doctrine. The Reformation and what today it has become only need research the Arian heresy. By the time of Emperor Valens the Church was maintained by only a handful of Bishops, literally. Had this not occurred as recorded we would be calling ourselves “Arians” today and not Christians.
Point being if you won’t believe what Basil, Athanasius, Hilary and Liberius stood for in this well documented period, how can you believe anything in Christianity? You wouldn’t and couldn’t know anything about your own Christian roots. We would “all” be other than what we are today as Christians.
If indeed this is true, which it most certainly is, then why wouldn’t todays reformers accept this truth? The mysteries remain intact as they always have, and for good reason. The Trinity was attacked, the conflicts with Arianism are synonymous with the dogma of the Trinity. Which also isn’t Biblical Doctrine, which you have no choice but to hopelessly defend while assuming you would know this without the Church.
There was no sinner’s prayers, no alter call, no once saved always saved and so forth. This isn’t part of the story of history. That unlike Mary and the Saints is a “new” non-historic invention, and not of the Apostolic Church.
The continued persecution such as that 6-minute You Tube video is indicative of the history of the Church. You have joined the persecution and somehow conclude your assumed truth will prevail. Yet what has prevailed is what has always been in this Church.
The Copts and others, well, you persecute them with your actions and don’t even realize this. Should be no surprise I suppose, I seen a You Tube protestant reformed video claiming the Blood of the Martyrs is also a non Biblical teaching contrary to the message of Jesus Christ.
While mainline protestants are not the issue, much past that we have something “new” which is not part of our Christian history. This is what happens when we teach our agenda and not the historic truth, the knowledge isn’t transmitted and “we” become persecuted. We means YOU too. Your fueling your own demise and can’t see it, and basically by “relevance.” which in the USA that is what the Truth has been enabled to become.
