Was the early Church 'Baptist'/Evangelical?

[mioque]

"We would like to read of the later work of such helpers of St. Paul as Timothy, Apollos, and Titus., but all these...drop out of record at his death. For 50 years after St. Paul's life a curtain hangs over the church through which we strive vainly to look; and when at last it arises, about AD 120, with the writings of the earliest church fathers [Justin], we find a church in many aspects different from that in the days of Peter and Paul "
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Some cynics have claimed that we have surviving writings of that transition period. They are in the NT. They are things like Paul's later letters. By A.D. 120 it became impossible to pretend that newly written texts had been created by the apostles, so the authors finally started to put their own names on them.

 

[acts17_11]

[8. The separation of church and state as divinely ordained but distinct spheres of authority;


Separation of church and state as divinely ordained?????????

So the I guess the communist of the old Soviet Union had it right. Article 13 of the U.S.S.R. Constitution has separation of church and state.

That must mean that our Christian forefathers had it wrong since our constitution don't have a separation clause.

"Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF;..."

Thanks to the ACLU most of our courts got it backwards. The 1st Amendment was not to separate religion from government but to keep government from governing religion. (Ref: letter dated 1 Jan 1801 From Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association.)
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