The Gainsayers (2)

(The literary Contest of Christianity in the first three centuries) As I wrote in my previous article, already in the times of the apostles many Jews and pagans became Christians but in name only and smuggled their false religious notions and practices into the church, where they matured and eventually became known as Ebionism and Gnosticism. Ebionism is Judaizing Christianity; Gnosticism is paganizing Christianity. The Ebionites were thus the successors of the non-Christian Judaists: and the...