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Polycarp and Eternal Torment
Chris Date has a video arguing for the idea that Polycarp of Smyrna held to conditional immortality (link to video). CD’s arguments hang on several points: 1) Ignatius writes to Polycarp that Polycarp views immortality and eternal life as being the prize set before him (Ignatius’ Epistle to Polycarp, Chapter 2). However, this would only…
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Formal Sufficiency of Scripture: Early Christian Writers (Guest Series)
Formal Sufficiency of ScriptureStated and Examined from Scripture and the Fathers, with scholarly confirmation regarding the Fathers’ views. In an introduction section (link), we discussed the nature of formal sufficiency that we, the Reformed, affirm. In the next section (link), we saw Scripture’s own testimony to its own sufficiency. If we were simply establishing the…