Apostolic Fathers Against TULIP (Jesus, testimony, reject, Earth, Kingdom)

angellous_evangellous · #1 03-09-2007, 07:41 AM

I have collected a series of quotations from the apostolic fathers that are explicitly against Calvin's TULIP doctrines. All of the apostolic fathers - the Christian leaders who wrote during the writing of the New Testament - are explicitly against every item in TULIP. These citations clearly demonstrate the alien nature of Calvin's doctrine to Christianity.

The apostolic fathers are critical because some of their writings were included in the earliest editions of the New Testament that were circulated in the churches. They were treated as part of the New Testament by many Christians, used in worship, and treated as inspired... some of them are still included in New Testament canons.

All of these writings are available at www.earlychristianwritings.com and all are foundational for Christian orthodoxy.

If you reject the teachings of the apostolic fathers, you will have to explain why you accept the New Testament that they preserved for you.

Enjoy.

angellous_evangellous · #2 03-09-2007, 07:42 AM

1 Clement 50.5

"Blessed are we, dear friends, if we continue to keep God's commandments in the harmony of love, that our sins may be forgiven us through love."

angellous_evangellous · #3 03-09-2007, 07:42 AM

2 Clement

"Therefore, brothers and sisters, inasmuchas we have received no small oppotunity to repent, let us, while we still have time, turn again to God who has called us, while we still have one who accepts us. For if we renounce these pleasures, and conquer our soul by refusing to fulfill its evil desires, we will share in Jesus' mercy. But you know that the day of judgment is coming as a blazing furnace and some of the heavens will dissolve and the whole earth will be like lead and a melting fire -- and the works of men, the secret and the public, will be made known....

Let us repent, therefore, with our whole heart, lest any of us (Christians) perish..."

angellous_evangellous · #4 03-09-2007, 07:42 AM

Ignatius to the Smyrneans

"Those (Chrsitians) who deny the good gift of God (the Eucharist) perish in their contentiousness. It would be more to their advantage to love, in order that they might also rise up (from the dead in the last day)."

angellous_evangellous · #5 03-09-2007, 07:43 AM

Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians

"But he who raised him from the dead will raise us also if we do his will and follow his commandments and love the things he loved while avoiding every kind of unrighteousness, greed, love of money, slandar, and false testimony, not repaying evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead remembering what the Lord said as he taught, "Do not judge, that you may not be judged, forgive, and you will be forgiven, show mercy and you will be shown mercy; with the measure you use it will be measured back to you; and blessed are the poor for theirs is the kingdom of God."

angellous_evangellous · #6 03-09-2007, 07:43 AM

The Didache:

16.2 Gather together frequently, seeking the things that benefit your souls, for all the time you have believed will be of no use to you if you are not perfect in the last time.

16.5 Then all humankind will come over the firey test, and 'many will fall away' and perish; but 'those who endure to the end' (quoting Matthew 24.10) will be saved.