The Church Fathers did a great job of expounding on Scripture. They clarified, defined, and refuted. We owe a debt to them for their insights into the word of God. However, not all of them agree with each other. Some of the Church Fathers reveal bad interpretations of...
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Early Church Fathers and Reformed Theology, Calvinism
Did the Early Church Fathers teach anything similar to reformed theology, also known as Calvinism? Reformed theology teaches the depravity of man, election and predestination, faith alone for salvation, the granting of faith by God, federal headship, limited...
The Church Fathers on John 6:39
The church fathers are not always in unanimous consensus. They differ on many topics. Here, we're looking at John 6:39. John 6:39, "This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day." When we look at...
The Church Fathers on Colossians 2:14
What do the Church Fathers say about Colossians 2:14, a very interesting verse that can support eternal security and even limited atonement? Let me explain why this verse is so important. NASB, Col. 2:14, "having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of...
Early Church Fathers on Faith Alone
Do some of the early church fathers teach the doctrine of faith alone? Yes, some did. This is important because Catholics and Eastern Orthodox both teach that the church fathers rejected faith alone and required either works or baptism to complete the saving work of...
Not all Church Fathers agree with the Catholic Church’s view of the Canon
The Ecclesiastic Canons of the Same Holy Apostles approved by Council in Trullo in 692 (This canon list rejected by Pope Constantine) Not all "Church Fathers" agreed even after the Council of Hippo in 393 and the Council of Carthage in 419 OT books include 3 (not 2)...
Early Church Fathers on The Eucharist, Communion Supper
Athenagoras (133-190) Arthenogoras says it is unlawful to partake of the flesh of men. "But what need is there to speak of bodies not allotted to be the food of any animal, and destined only for a burial in the earth in honour of nature, since the Maker of the world...
Early Church Fathers’ Quotes on Peter as the Rock
Peter is the Rock Jerome (347-420): "Evil children have squandered their patrimony; you alone keep your heritage intact. The fruitful soil of Rome, when it receives the pure seed of the Lord, bears fruit an hundredfold . . . As I follow no leader save Christ, so I...
Early Church Fathers on the Apocrypha
Athanasius (300?-375) Athanasius condemns the apocryphal books as non-scripture: 2 "But since we have made mention of heretics as dead, but of ourselves as possessing the Divine Scriptures for salvation; and since I fear lest, as Paul wrote to the Corinthians, some...
Miscellaneous Church Father Quotes
Satan will be saved: Gregory of Nyssa ( 330-394) said Satan will be saved, "A certain deception was indeed practised upon the Evil one, by concealing the Divine nature within the human; but for the latter, as himself a deceiver, it was only a just recompense that he...