What is the best early Christian sect?

[PDH]

Where are the Nestorians?

[Valmy]

Where are the Nestorians?

Not really an early sect. They didn't come along until after Constantine right?

[Martinus]

Quite a few favourites there, but I ended up voting for Carpocratians. They knew how to party.

[Jaron]

The foundations of the Mormon faith, which is definitely Christian, goes back to the time of ancient Israel. I think if you're going to include early Christian sects then it is fair to include Latter Day Saints.

[Admiral Yi]

 

[Hamilcar]

Most languish thread ever.

[celedhring]

Always had a soft spot for nestorians, but if they don't qualify then it's definitely the carpocratians (provided the tales of libertinism are correct and not libel from their rivals).

[garbon]

I stand with the Donatists. No quarter for those who renounce the faith! Also if you are condemned by Saint Augustine, you know you are doing something right.

[crazy canuck]

Anyways, I've always been partial to my boy Marcion of Sinope.

I thought everyone in that part of the US was a fire and brimstone Old Testament type 

[Eddie Teach]

I thought everyone in that part of the US was a fire and brimstone Old Testament type 

You clearly haven't been listening. It's all Jesus this and Jesus that.

[crazy canuck]

I thought everyone in that part of the US was a fire and brimstone Old Testament type 

You clearly haven't been listening. It's all Jesus this and Jesus that.

With a good dose of Gays are teh Evil because the old testament tells me so

[Eddie Teach]

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;

2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.

3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Not a condemnation of homosexuality, exactly, but it is a positive assertion of heteronormativity.

[crazy canuck]

ok, but that has nothing to do with all the bible thumpers citing the Old Testament to support their social conservatism.

[Eddie Teach]

The Testaments are generally in agreement regarding social conservative issues.

[crazy canuck]

The Testaments are generally in agreement regarding social conservative issues.