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“Catholicism was never on McCalister’s radar.”
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"On the experience of reading early patristics, McCalister said that “Catholics take the words of Jesus at face value (while) I was always the one trying to explain away the words of Jesus. Once I saw the early church and the early Church Fathers, how they lived, what they taught and how that was consonant with Scripture, and that it was the same as what the Catholics taught today, it led me to a final conclusion of one of two choices.”
“Either that it is a grand conspiracy theory, (and) that after the death of the last apostle, the faith died and was lost and was later restored by pick your reformer … or what was going on in 200 A.D. really is the Catholic Church…"
“Catholicism was never on McCalister’s radar.”
…
"On the experience of reading early patristics, McCalister said that “Catholics take the words of Jesus at face value (while) I was always the one trying to explain away the words of Jesus. Once I saw the early church and the early Church Fathers, how they lived, what they taught and how that was consonant with Scripture, and that it was the same as what the Catholics taught today, it led me to a final conclusion of one of two choices.”
“Either that it is a grand conspiracy theory, (and) that after the death of the last apostle, the faith died and was lost and was later restored by pick your reformer … or what was going on in 200 A.D. really is the Catholic Church…"
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