Church Fathers & Death Destroyed!
Pastor Dave
Quote about how death was destroyed, by "church fathers":
Melito of Sardis: "Who will contend against me? Let him
stand before me. It is I who delivered the condemned.
It is I who gave life to the dead. It is I who raised up
the buried. Who will argue with me? It is I, says Christ,
who destroyed death. It is I who triumphed over the
enemy, and having trod down Hades, and bound the
Strong Man, and have snatched mankind up to the
heights of heaven."
St. Athanasius: "Now, however, that the devil, that tyrant
against the whole world, is slain, we do not approach a
temporal feast, my beloved, but an eternal and heavenly.
Not in shadows do we shew it forth, but we come to it in
truth. For they being filled with the flesh of a dumb lamb,
accomplished the feast, and having anointed their door-posts
with the blood, implored aid against the destroyer. For
no more does death reign; but instead of death henceforth
is life, since our Lord said, 'I am the life;' so that
everything is filled with joy and gladness; as it is
written, 'The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice.'
For when death reigned, 'sitting down by the rivers of
Babylon, we wept,' and mourned, because we felt the
bitterness of captivity; but now that death and the kingdom
of the devil is abolished, everything is entirely filled
with joy and gladness. And God is no longer known only
in Judaea, but in all the earth, 'their voice hath gone
forth, and the knowledge of Him hath filled all the earth.'
(Letter 256, Part 3)
Odes of Solomon: "Because He is my Sun and His rays have
lifted me up and His light hath dispelled all darkness from
my face. In Him I have acquired eyes and have seen His holy
day: The way of error I have left, and have walked towards
Him and have received salvation from Him, without grudging.
I have put on incorruption through His name: and have put
off corruption by His grace. Death hath been destroyed
before my face: and Sheol bath been abolished by my word."
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Pastor Dave
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"I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful
as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When
faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered,
neither love nor patience are in order... For
a defective life does not destroy Christendom,
but exercises it. However, defective doctrine
and false faith ruin everything. Therefore, when
these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy
are in order, but only anger, dispute and
destruction - to be sure, only with the Word
of God as our weapon." - Martin Luther
Ike E 1/2/2010
"Pastor Dave" <ananias917_@_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Quote about how death was destroyed, by "church fathers":
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...was a "futurist."
"According to the Catholic Encyclopedia Melito believed in a Millennial
reign of Christ on Earth."
"...a large number of Christians of the post-Apostolic era, particularly in
Asia Minor, yielded so far to Jewish apocalyptic as to put a literal meaning
into these descriptions of St. John's Apocalypse; the result was that
millenarianism spread and gained staunch advocates not only among the
heretics but among the Catholic Christians as well...Papias of Hierapolis, a
disciple of St. John, appeared as an advocate of millenarianism. He claimed
to have received his doctrine from contemporaries of the Apostles...A
witness for the continued belief in millenarianism in the province of Asia
is St. Melito, Bishop of Sardes in the second century (Kirsch J.P.
Transcribed by Donald J. Boon. Millennium and Millenarianism. The Catholic
Encyclopedia, Volume X. Copyright � 1911 by Robert Appleton Company. Online
Edition Copyright � 2003 by K. Knight. Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1911. Remy
Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New
York)."
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> St. Athanasius...
...was a FUTURIST, as he was one of the scholars instrumental in the
development of the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds.
(He was also a Covenantalist. Bad Athanasius.)
> Odes of Solomon...
Gnostic claptrap.
My, my. You ARE getting quite desperate in your attempts to link a your
heretical doctrines which didn't exist until the counter Reformation to the
ancients.
Ike