What did early Christians
(Before 300 AD)
Uninspired records of how
early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed!
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- 120-205 AD Irenaeus "Christ will not die again on behalf
of those who now commit sin because death shall no more have dominion
over Him.... Therefore we should not be puffed up.... But we should
beware lest somehow, after [we have come to] the knowledge of
Christ, if we do things displeasing to God, we obtain no further
forgiveness of sins but rather be shut out from His kingdom"
(Heb. 6:46). (Irenaeus, pupil of Polycarp, Against Heresies
bk. 4, chap. 27, sec. 2)
- 140-230 AD Tertullian "Some people act as though God
were under an obligation to bestow even on the unworthy His intended
gift. They turn His liberality into slavery.... For do not many
afterwards fall out of grace? Is not this gift taken away from
many?" (Tertullian On Repentance chap. 6.)
- 200-258 AD Cyprian "It is written, 'He who endures to
the end, the same shall be saved' [Matt. 10:22]. So whatever precedes
the end is only a step by which we ascend to the summit of salvation.
It is not the final point wherein we have already gained the full
result of the ascent." (Cyprian Unity of the Church sec.
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