As persecution for the faith looms upon the horizon, we are to make the most of opportunities today — tomorrow may be too late! Eph 6:16
— Tony Perkins (@tperkins) October 16, 2015
Uh-huh.
Biblical scholars agree universally that about half of Paul’s epistles are forgeries, that there was little actual persecution of Christians, and that if Jesus existed at all he was a low-profile and insignificant unknown. Given all that, might it be the case that the first church fathers were analogous to the World Net Daily, Breitbart, Family Research Council crowd of today? Just a pack of manipulative, dishonest, self-aggrandizing hustlers exploiting the insecure and frightened?