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• The early Church is no mystery. As a matter of fact, most believers would be astonished to learn just how much we do know about the first three hundred years of Christian history.
• Some Christians speculate that when Constantine legalized the faith in A.D. 313 many half-converted pagans corrupted the Church by introducing elements retained from their old beliefs. If you are anything like me, you will be amazed to discover that we have literally thousands of pages of documentation dating from long, long before this legalizatio...
• Priceless artifacts such as The Martyrdom of Polycarp, The Epistle of Barnabas, and The Shepherd of Hermas—all of these come down to us with as much trustworthiness as any ancient document, as reliable as the Jewish Antiquities of Josephus or Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Romans. All of today’s Christian scholars agree that these invaluable records...
• Like many of you readers, I suspect, I have been familiar with the Scriptures since childhood—to my eternal benefit.
• In our sincere eagerness to be “Bible Christians”, had we perhaps come to undervalue the witness of God’s hand in Church history? I really had to start taking this possibility seriously when I learned that even my Reformation heroes had not hesitated to reference these ancient writings. Even Luther and Calvin—the very men who taught us Sola Scriptu...