#253 The Early Church Was Hierarchical - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

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Was there a golden age at the very beginning of the Church when Christianity was unspoiled by a hierarchical structure? Was there a blessed age when Christians were simply Christian, without authoritative leaders who had the power to govern the Church? Nope. Tim Staples explains. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. Thank you for being with us. We’ve been doing some early church conversations with Director of Evangelization and Apologetics here at Catholic Answers, Tim Staples. And we’re going to continue with that early …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I'm Cy Kellett, your host.
0:09.0	Thank you for being with us. We've been talking, doing some early church conversations with the director of with
0:14.1	talking doing some early church conversations with director of
0:15.8	uh... evangelization and apologetics here at cathic answers Tim Staples and we're
0:20.1	going to continue with that early church conversation.
0:23.4	First of all, welcome Tim.
0:24.6	Thanks for being with us.
0:25.6	It is great to be with you.
0:26.6	Tim, there was a time before the kind of the Catholic church was born of a kind of primordial and pure Christianity that lacked hierarchical structures.
0:38.3	It was just kind of me and Jesus.
0:40.8	Yes.
0:41.8	And can we ever get back to that?
0:42.8	And unfortunately that evil Catholic church came and destroyed that.
0:46.2	Yes.
0:47.2	Yeah, that is very popular among evangelicals,
0:50.9	fundamentalists and such.
0:52.2	That's kind of what I was raised on.
0:54.7	That idea there was this purity.
0:56.8	The sort of CS Lewis mere Christianity, although I know CS Lewis wasn't doing that, but the idea of there was a mere Christianity.
1:06.6	Right, right. And then all this other stuff got added on.
1:09.8	And actually that is absolutely false.
1:13.6	The Catholic Church, of course, was instituted
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