{"id":49,"date":"2013-02-09T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2020-04-17T23:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T21:18:16","slug":"the-early-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"The Early Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DiscussingAdventismBook\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?page_id=49\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"400px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?page_id=49\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p>Adventism holds to beliefs that weren&#8217;t taught by early Christians. These innovations came from human reasoning during the so-called Reformation and later periods. Was the entire Christian Church wrong for 1500 years? Some groups claim spiritual ties with certain sects that existed in the past, to try to trace their roots to the Apostles without acknowledging Catholicism as the original Christian Church. But were these sects even Christian?\u00a0 And what were the beliefs of the early Christians, and do they reflect Catholic or Protestant (or Adventist, etc.) beliefs?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Who where the early Christians?<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Albigensians, Waldensians, and Ellen White\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=499\">Albigensians, Waldensians, and Ellen White<\/a> &#8230; by Stephen Korsman<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Adventist Review's indirect admission of Ellen White's errors\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=516\">Adventist Review&#8217;s indirect admission of Ellen White&#8217;s errors regarding the Albigensians and Waldenses<\/a> &#8230; by Stephen Korsman<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Were the Waldenses primitive &quot;Protestants&quot;?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2019\/05\/were-the-waldenses-a-species-of-primitive-protestants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Were the Waldenses primitive &#8220;Protestants&#8221;?<\/a> &#8230; by Dave Armstrong<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Were the Albigensians primitive &quot;Protestants&quot;?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2019\/05\/were-the-albigensians-primitive-or-proto-protestants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Were the Albigensians primitive &#8220;Protestants&#8221;?<\/a> &#8230; by Dave Armstrong<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Early Church Fathers<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"The Early Church Fathers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/fathers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Early Church Fathers<\/a> &#8230; extensive listing by New Advent<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Adventists abusing Socrates\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1826\">Adventists abusing Socrates on the Sabbath<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 by Stephen Korsman<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Early Christians on various topics<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"The Antichrist and the Fathers of the Church\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.com\/tract\/the-antichrist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Antichrist<\/a> &#8230; Catholic Answers<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adventism holds to beliefs that weren&#8217;t taught by early Christians. These innovations came from human reasoning during the so-called Reformation and later periods. Was the entire Christian Church wrong for 1500 years? Some groups claim spiritual ties with certain sects that existed in the past, to try to trace their roots to the Apostles without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?page_id=49\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2039,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","nodate","item-wrap"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3fpVQ-N","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}