First Christian Voices: Practices of the Apostolic Fathers

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First Christian Voices

Nevertheless, I have heard that some with false teaching have come your way and you did not allow them to sow their teaching among you. Instead, you covered your ears that you might not receive those things which were sown by them because you are stones of the temple of the Father prepared for the building of God the Father ( 1 Pet 2:4–5 ). You are drawn up on high by the crane of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, making use of the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means by which you rose and your love the way that led up to God. You, therefore, as well as all your fellow travelers, are God bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, clothed in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ. In Him also I celebrate that I have been considered worthy to converse and rejoice with you through this letter, because you love nothing in life but God alone. I gnatius to the E phesians 16: Do not be deceived my friends. Those who corrupt families will not inherit the kingdom of God. If, then, those who do this according to the flesh have suffered death, how much more will this be the case with anyone who corrupts faith in God by wicked doctrines. For this reason Jesus Christ was crucified! Such a corrupted person will go away into everlasting fire and so will everyone who listens to him. I gnatius to the T rallians 6: I therefore, yet not I but the love of Jesus Christ, implore you that you use Christian nourishment only and refrain from every strange plant which is heresy. For these people, pretending to be trustworthy, mix Jesus Christ with themselves. They are like someone who dispenses a deadly drug in