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Kresta in the Afternoon – August 7, 2023 – Hour 2

Rod Bennett joins Al to talk about the biggest lie about the early Church.

 

The Biggest Lie about the Early Church

The narrative of the so-called “Great Apostasy” goes like this: just a few centuries after Christ’s death, around the time the Roman Empire converted to Christianity, the true Faith suffered a catastrophic falling-away. The simple truths of the gospel became so obscured by worldliness and pagan idolatry that Christianity required a complete reboot. Millions today profess a faith built on the assumption that the early Church quickly became broken beyond repair, requiring some new prophet or reformer to restore the pure teaching of Jesus and the apostles. This theory is popular… but it’s also fiction. Rod Bennett is here with the truth.

 

Rod Bennett is the author of many books, including Scripture Wars: How Justin Martyr Saved the Old Testament for Christians, The Apostasy that Wasn't: The Extraordinary Story of the Unbreakable Early Church and These Twelve: The Gospel through the Apostle's Eyes. He converted to the Catholic Faith from the Southern Baptist tradition in 1996.
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