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|H=Evidence of an apostasy after Christ from early Christian history other than the Bible
|S=Do the Early Church Fathers and other post-Biblical documents shed any light on the apostasy?
|L1=Question: Is there any evidence of the apostasy from materials from early Christian history besides the Bible?
|L2=Clement of Rome: "For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you"
|L3=Hegesippus: "These also, as there were none of the apostles left, henceforth attempted, without shame to preach their false doctrine against the gospel of truth"
|L4=Ignatius: "the false prophets and the false apostles"
|L5=Irenaeus: "evil is spread abroad among men"
|L6=Tertullian: "Away with all attempts to produce a mottled Christianity of Stoic, Platonic, and dialectic composition!"
|L7=Cyprian: Cyprian argued that since the Saints had sunk to such low levels of depravity they rightly deserved the harsh judgments of God
|L8=Cyril of Jerusalem: "For men have fallen from the right faith; and some preach the identity of the Son with the Father...This, therefore, is the falling away"
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{{:Question: Is there any evidence of the apostasy from materials from early Christian history besides the Bible?}}
{{:Source:Clement of Rome:For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you}}
{{:Source:Hegesippus:These also, as there were none of the apostles left, henceforth attempted, without shame to preach their false doctrine against the gospel of truth}}
{{:Source:Ignatius:the false prophets and the false apostles}}
{{:Source:Irenaeus:evil is spread abroad among men}}
{{:Source:Tertullian:Away with all attempts to produce a mottled Christianity of Stoic, Platonic, and dialectic composition!}}
{{:Source:Cyprian:Cyprian argued that since the Saints had sunk to such low levels of depravity they rightly deserved the  harsh judgments of God}}
{{:Source:Cyril of Jerusalem:For men have fallen from the right faith; and some preach the identity of the Son with the Father...This, therefore, is the falling away}}
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