Interesting thought: According to the 2nd century church father, Iranaeus, the apostle John’s disciple, Polycarp, was said to have recounted a scenario about the apostle John. The scenario involved a heretic by the name of Cerinthus who was present in a public bath-house. When John, who was also going to take a bath in the bath-house, learned that Cerinthus was inside, he: “rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, ‘Let us flee, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within.’” If this is true, it definitely challenges the toleration we (including me) show for heresies and heretics.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 02:21:51 +0000
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