Mike Aquilina Q&A on early Christianity
Way of the Fathers
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The Four Gospels
Gnosticism in the second century is that it really did not go out there trying to make new Christians. It was instead a parasite within the church. The people around you in the pews, those odious people who are your neighbors, they're not part of that elite,. You're special, you have the special knowledge, and you're going to be moving to kind of the secret echelons of the church. All right. Kevin has a follow up question. Wasn't your whole point about the four gospels, a theological claim, not a historical one? If I recall Aaronist's claim was that there can be only four gospels because there are four corners
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