Just a note about what I've been reading over the past few months...slowly. It's amazing how tenacious the Church was after Christ's ascension. For the first 600 years, the church fathers diligently and doggedly thought and wrote and solidified the theology of Christ as God and man, as redeemer, as Savior, as King, as faithful high Priest...
The Church combated the heresies of Christ as some weird amalgamation/fusion of God and man (rendering neither God or man), as less than God, as simply a holy man and a spiritual advisor, as just a manifestation of God in a different form (therefore, God the Father ceasing to exist when Christ existed) and as an example to follow so one could attain secret knowledge. I'm sure that you can recognize some of these heresies in some of the religions around us today.
As a result, the resurrection and complete redemption of the world and of man (of those men who chose to submit and acknowledge Christ as Lord and Savior) as accomplished in Christ on the cross as written in the NT remains a bedrock of our faith.
Thank God that the Holy Spirit is willing to work with man so that God's knowledge as revealed in Christ was not lost but continues with us today! Thank God for working in the early Fathers who stood boldly and courageously against heresy!
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