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Originally Posted by Archaea
Mormons have long accepted as a cultural piece of truth that some "Great Apostasy" from original pristine truth occurred after the First Century. Seattle mockingly has pointed out the absurdities of the proposition.
Do you believe it's (a) still taught or (b) a correct principle?
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People who've read Bart Ehrman's
Lost Christianities tell me that whatever system Jesus set up collapsed after he was gone.
That's apostasy of authority.
Apostasy of truth is much easier to demonstrate. It's much easier to trace how homoousios, creation ex nihilo, rejection of divine embodiment, etc. entered Christianity.