Posted by 100% AGREE. Jaypeeto [Jaypeeto] on March 26, 1999 at 18:21:38 {Hq/lZhRVmkEf.6ZJM7aUMWf0hi4VK0MIQ}:
In Reply to: Watchtower will never tell ... posted by RomGabe on March 21, 1999 at 22:57:41:
Read Justin's first apology and the Dialog with Trypho.
In the First Apology, note his teaching on
the Eucharist, and on Mary, and in the DIALOGUE,
on the SHAPE of the instrument on which Jesus was put to death.
Read
Irenaeus' Against The Heresies.
Note what he says about these same topics,
as well as "apostolic succession", etc.
On the "millenium," Justin, Irenaeus, and Hippolytus took the 1,000 years literally, but Justin himself acknowledges
in his writings that many otherwise-right-believing Christians
did NOT take the millenium literally.
Why has the Society praised Justin Martyr?
He was an EARLY Christian, converted in the first half of the 2nd century. Such a man,
then,
if Watchtowerism really WERE the ancient faith,
would not be worthy of praise but rather of condemnation, for HE would have been one of the ones introducing "babylonish" teachings into the Churches!!! Yet they praised him,
without telling you WHAT he really held to.
Jaypeeto