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I‘m also neither Catholic nor Protestant. I’m a primitive Christian. What I say is that neither Catholics nor Protestants agree that primitive Christians are biblical and they themselves aren’t. It’s not something that can be resolved through debate, and discussion can only go so far in...

The one Church is founded by Christ on Christ and the gospel which he and the apostles preached.

“Reading good books about the Bible is not the same as reading the Bible. Always give priority to reading the Bible.” - Dustin Benge

“Books are the training weights of the mind.” - Epictetus

This morning I read Against The Sabellians, written by Dionysius, Bishop of Rome. I’m currently reading In Praise of Folly, written by Desiderius Erasmus.

This evening I read another short work which has, dubiously, been ascribed to Lactantius - The Phoenix. Unless he wrote this prior to his conversion, it is extremely unlikely that he wrote this. It is pagan to the core. First, Arnobius, and now in turn Lactantius, have pounded paganism. There...

No. See / hear what Jesus said about himself.

“I can of my own self do nothing.” - Jesus

I was looking at a list of the writings of Lactantius before retiring for the evening, noticed a short work titled A Poem On The Passion Of The Lord and decided to read it. It didn’t sound to me like something Lactantius would have written. I looked into it and discovered that the poem was...

So far, I’m enjoying reading Lactantius as much as I did reading Arnobius. I’m currently reading A Treatise On The Workmanship Of God.

For a number of reasons, I don’t communicate with anyone by pm. This thread is to encourage people to read widely. The Bible, most certainly - I’m all for that - but not the Bible alone.