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To: af_vet_1981

You boasted, “All the Early Church Fathers (ECFs) were Catholic.” Was Paul an early church father in the Catholic Church?


222 posted on 05/28/2017 9:44:55 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

He certainly wasn’t Roman Catholic!


223 posted on 05/28/2017 10:16:30 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MHGinTN
... “All the Early Church Fathers (ECFs) were Catholic.” Was Paul an early church father in the Catholic Church?

Paul was the Apostle to the Gentiles, a spiritual father as noted in the scriptures, and part of the foundation of the one holy catholic apostolic church.

καθ’ ὅλης = kath' holes = throughout all

And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him. Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

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Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.


Acts, Catholic chapter nine, Protestant verses twenty six to thirty one,

Ephesians, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verses eleven to twenty two,

as authorized, but not authored, by King James


By the term Early Church Fathers (ECFs) I mean a list like this:

The following are early church fathers and apologists of the first and second centuries.
245 posted on 05/28/2017 6:22:10 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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