My Answer to the Question: When Did the Great Apostasy Begin?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- When did the Great Apostasy Begin? Being completely honest, this is a hard question to answer. We don't have a day, month, or year of the exact beginning of the Great Apostasy. However, I explain why we don't need one to explain that the Great Apostasy did in fact happen.
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The Great Apostasy was a gradual process. It started in the first century, which is why the apostles were sending letters to congregations correcting them. After the apostles died, that process continued, this time without the correction of the apostles. The closure of the scriptural canon compounded this problem
I agree, but the question to that would be, "At what point was the point of no return?"
"When did things change too much to be considered the fulness of the gospel?"
I believe the answer I give does it's best to prove we don't need a specific moment or date to prove the apostasy. The apostasy is proven by God giving a sign of authority to His restored church to prove that He is, in fact, restoring His Gospel.
I hope that makes sense.
@@readitbom I understand, and it's a good point. But in another sense, you could also say that something needs to be restored once it is lost. Two of the biggest things that even mainstream christianity agrees were lost are apostles and an open canon. We agree that they were lost, we just disagree on whether they needed to be restored
I don't think mainstream Christianity believes the Apostles or public revelation (an open cannon) were lost. They usually use the term cessation. Public revelation ceased. The office of apostle ceased. The difference being that they don't believe these things need to be restored.
Catholics and Orthodox believe that the office of apostle ceased, but the same authority and responsibility continued in the office of bishop.
The Great Apostasy started in the first century under the watchful eyes of the Apostles who sent letters to correct errors, when the Apostles were gone (dead) Apostasy went unchecked & was canonized in the 4th century so God pulled the authority. God restored the authority & called a new Prophet however some would argue that Apostasy has taken root in the restoration of the Gospel.
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Amen! At the beginning of "Imperial" Christianity. When Roman emperors replaced Jesus as the head of the church. This is when it went from being a series of minor apostasies to being a single world wide event "Great" apostasy. They abandoned monotheism by making Jesus a god along with the Father, changed dates and laws and customs, and started persecuting those who did not go along with their form of "Christianity".