St Ignatius letters must be attacked, because if they are true, Protestantism must be false. Of course, the fact that when St Ignatius wrote these letters, as attested to and quoted by other Fathers, he could not have known of the 16th century rebels, could he?
Nice to see you starting sentences with a capital for a change. :o)
No, I was not attacking anyone. And regardless of what a first or even fourth century person writes or is thought to have written, it is still NOT Scripture. Do we have agreement on that point?
I'm seeing this pattern you have where you seem to state that anything "Protestant" is heresy and anything attributed to "Catholic" is truth. Am I understanding you clearly here?
My belief and faith is based upon what the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, state and also what I have experienced when I placed my trust and faith in who those Scriptures spoke of. Jesus Christ, God Almighty incarnate, came to earth in the form of a man and lived a perfect, sinless life. He then gave that life to die in my place as payment for all my sins - the payment I could never have made with any hope of ever seeing God for all eternity. He did that because he loved me and he did that for everyone else that ever lived or ever will live. He did that out of love and pure grace and grace means no one deserves or ever can earn it. In fact, it HAD to be by grace, because there was no other way.
When through faith we accept God's gift of grace, we are adopted into his eternal family, made joint-heirs with Christ, indwelt with his Holy Spirit as a guarantee that we will be with him forever when we die. When we sin, he is ever ready to draw us back into fellowship and will always forgive us when we "come clean" to him. God is our Father and he remakes us into the image of Christ when we first put our faith in him. He never stops working in us to develop us into holy people, called out from the world, in the world but not of the world any longer.
Now this is only a small part of what I believe, anything strike you as "out-there" and heretical?