/lit/ - Literature

>>20132485
>The original Christians were anarchistic and against any authority which was not God (ie the Bible and some loosely bound religious communities), in other words very similar to the Protestant (early Christian/Jewish) attitude towards the Catholic Church (Rome)
Since, however, it would be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, whether by an evil self-pleasing, by vainglory, or by blindness and perverse opinion, assemble in unauthorized meetings; [we do this, I say,] by indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; as also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops. For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on account of its preeminent authority

- Irenaeus, 200 years before Constantine

Sorry bro, you're wrong

>>20087062

>>19951121
>but I trust my own conclusions until I'm proven wrong
Every heretic in history did that. Arius was a devout man, but he trusted his own wisdom over that of the Church and fell into error because of it. It's the same story every time.

>>18592849
I have. Protestants misunderstand the Bible though hence why it's important for them to engage in patristics to correct their hermeneutical mistakes