[wmfights]

Where did you get this???? St. Ambrose was born into a Christian family in Rome. He was not pagan.

Paul Johnson, "A History of Christianity".

pg 77 "It was common for the State or private interest groups to push their nominees into key Church posts, irrespective of their status. St Ambrose was baptized, went through the various clerical ranks and was consecrated bishop of Milan all within eight days."

I've no doubt the mission now will be to discredit the author, but his resume looks pretty good.

[Cronos]

Oh, I'm not going to discredit the author as it's not the author's fault you've used sola interpretura and misunderstood (this is a common thing with sola scriptura, sola interpretura, sola excerptura types).

FACT: St. Ambrose WAS born into a Christian family --> look it up for yourself.

And yes, he wasn't baptised as an infant, because that was not widespread in the 3rd century until St. Augustine. You misunderstood that to say that "Not surprising coming from a man who went from being a pagan to a Bishop in your church in about 2 weeks time"

Now that is a common sola interpretura error which also plays out in the sola's folks's reading of The Bible -- you folks may read one thing like " St Ambrose was baptized, " and ASSUME that he was born a pagan. That error comes from not having a complete knowledge and presuming that the incomplete knowledge is complete -- you didn't lie, but you made an incorrect assumption based on incomplete and misunderstood facts. That is the folly of relying on an individuals (as opposed to a community of believers stretching back 2000 years) interpretation.