How will your church celebrate the Reformation?

No, rather that the Church is built upon the foundation of Jesus, and the teachings of His Apostles!

 

The Apostles themselves?

 

By before the reformation I should have said immediately before the reformatioin, say a couple of hundred years before. Or to be more exact, Immediately before.

 

Wesley in his Journal. As you probably Know,Wesley probably all know, Wesley travelled thousands of miles on horseback. He said in his journal that in his time it was said that you should ride with a tight rein, but he found it best to ride with a loose rein, so he could read as he rode. His reading of Montanus was on one of those journeys if I remember correctly.

I did read Mosheim, but most of my reading of Montanus was from E. de Pressence, Heresy and Christian Doctrine. who said he put Montanus amongst the Judaising heresies, He also said that when it was said the Montanus said he was the Paraclete, not him claiming to be the spirit, but that it was the spirit speaking in him. My other main study was from Wm Goode in Modern Claims To The Possession Of The Extraordinary gifts of the Spirit, Stated and Examined and Compared with the Most Remarkable Cases Of A Similar Kind That Have Occurred In The Christian Church, Second Edition 1834. That is the short title, the Library copy I first read shortened it even more to Goode's Modern Claims, It was reprinted some years ago with some notes on more modern claims, under the title of Charismatic Confusion.

Tertullian became a Montanist and his teaching changed. Originally, he said that 2nd marriage was wrong but later that all marriage was wrong as it consisted of the same act as adultery.

 

The Montanists were called The Phrygian Heresy, also the Cataphygian Heresy. What does "Cata" as a prefix mean.

 

I think the Baptist is correct.

The Anabaptists, (most of them) taught that they should not take up the sword as the sword is given to the magistrate who wields it as God wills. (Quoted from memory a long time ago)

 

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