Many serious Christians today (Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants) are interested in discovering how the early Christians lived and worshipped.  Many scholars today astutely investigate the early Church, considering the first three centuries following the Passion and Resurrection of Christ before all else.  This investigation into the early Church is highly laudable, especially when using primary sources.  Of course, authentic research into any form of history must refrain from both cherry-picking and excluding evidence that might be contrary to a desired outcome. But heretics have always attempted to foist their own errors upon the early Church in order to pretend like their new theories are, in fact, very old.  In other [...]