EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH HISTORY #10: FUTURE & ULTIMATE THINGS CONTRASTED WITH THE CULTS, ETC.

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Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (YouTube channel: CANSWERSTV, see our playlist “Dealing with Anti Trinitarians & Early Church History” at www.youtube.com and Steve Morrison, Ph.D, director of Research for Christian Answers (Steve is the creator of all 3 of our websites: www.BIBLEQUERY.ORG, http & www.MUSLIMHOPE.COM) take viewers on a journey through the portals of time, back to the first few centuries of the early Christian church. What did the early Christian Church teach & practice? Early pre-Nicene (before 325 AD) writers included Ignatius, Clement of Rome, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Melito, Iranaeus, Origen of Alexandria, Tatian, Athenagoras, Polycrates, Montanus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Cyprian, Novatian, Lactantius, Arnobius, Eusebius, Dionysius of Rome, Dionysius of Alexandria, “To Diognetus,” Papias, Theophilus of Antioch, Methodius, Adamantius, Gregory Thaumaturgus & others. Let’s ask the following question, “What could you prove about early Christianity if you had no Bible, but only the pre-Nicene church writers?” The Old Testament told of eternal life. Isa 26:19; 25:7-8; 53:7-12;Ps 49:14-5;30:12;139:24; Prov 14:32; Lk 20:37-38 Now Until Judgment Day, After Death: For a believer, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. 2 Cor 5:6-8; Php 1:21-23; Rev 6:9-11; Lk 23:43; Acts 7:59. Believers exist after death. Lk 16,20:38 All die once and then are judged; reincarnation is false. Heb 9:27-28; ~ 2 Sam 12