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**popsicesHoupe** · 04-19-2010, 04:34 AM

In the case of Arianism, Michael, God sent Athanasius and the other early Fathers, to fight it and in the end the Truth prevailed. So Yes the Truth is not a popularity contest and people use their free will to reject God many times, but when things get really bad God intervenes and God and His truth prevail.

And, normally, it prevails just long enough for the next heresy to come along and make a mess again. Besides Arianism, the early Church dealt with Gnosticism, Montanism, Docetism, Manichaeanism, Nestorianism, and several other "-isms", plus iconoclasm and so on, never mind the Great Schism.

In Ephesians, Pauls writes that:

... Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. That is the goal - not numerical superiority, but purity and holiness.

04-19-2010, 04:34 AM	#12
popsicesHoupe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 417 Senior Member	In the case of Arianism, Michael, God sent Athanasius and the other early Fathers, to fight it and in the end the Truth prevailed. So Yes the Truth is not a popularity contest and people use their free will to reject God many times, but when things get really bad God intervenes and God and His truth prevail. And, normally, it prevails just long enough for the next heresy to come along and make a mess again. Besides Arianism, the early Church dealt with Gnosticism, Montanism, Docetism, Manichaeanism, Nestorianism, and several other "-isms", plus iconoclasm and so on, never mind the Great Schism. In Ephesians, Pauls writes that: ... Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. That is the goal - not numerical superiority, but purity and holiness.
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