To: Tell It Right
But our early church fathers used that phrase not for those purposes, but to make a case that it was only through scripture we can know the true teachings. In other words, the phrase "apostolic succession" used by Catholics today was originally used for a sola scriptura argument. Not really.
See, for example, Ignatius of Antioch on the authority of the bishop.
40 posted on
09/11/2019 1:08:24 PM PDT by
Campion
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To: Campion
I’m not following you. Where does that say Ignatius used apostolic succession to make the argument for the authority of the bishop?
146 posted on
09/12/2019 8:13:51 AM PDT by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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