But weren't the Church Fathers who were outside of the New Testament the ones who codified the New Testament and the content that is in in modern times? Are you a part of a branch of Christianity that predates the Catholic Church? If so, what type of Church is it that you attend or what type Christianity do you practice?
Wow. So, in your view the Catholics were worse than the Pharisees? Aren't Catholic practices pretty much in line with what Paul taught? Are Catholic practices pretty much the oldest of modern Christianity?
Do you consider the Catholics void of the Christian concept of Salvation or do you just consider them to be misled? Are there any other types of Christians who are in line with what you consider to be correct Christianity?
Are you a type of Ebionite? You mentioed that you are part Jewish, are you saying that the Jewish part of you comes from the Ebionites?
Diotrephes in 3 John could have been the one Catholic person mentioned
in the NT. It's an uncommon name, he came from a pagan background and
John said he wanted the 'pre-eminence' amongst his admirers, and openly
resisted the itinerate Apostles. One Diotrephes from that age was one of the
first Bishops of the early Catholic Church. As such Diotrephes would have
believed in symbolic worship - holy days, physical sanctuaries, merchandise
etc..
Worse than Pharisees? By the 5th century the Roman Catholic Church was
worse than the Pharisees. Certainly by the 12th Century. It essentially ruled
the world by this stage. The reference to the whore sitting on the 'seven hills'
full of her pomp, glory and wealth reminds me of the RCC.
Those who collated the NT were obviously aware of the associations between
some of the warnings in that text, and their own behavior. This demonstrates
that the 'early fathers' were compiling what was already considered in society
as authentic texts.