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Originally Posted by Believer
Do you also believe that he was Moses and Aaron was his brother? Shall I type out Hippolytus' refutation against Noetus?
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Do you know that Hippolytus was rejected as Bishop of Rome, when the brethren of that district voted and approved of Callistus. Hippolytus then led a seperatist movement from the churches at Rome. He was in rebellion to the general established church at the time. Early Catholicism considered Hipplytus the "Antipope", but later when his doctrine was embraced (in spite of the monarchian beliefs of the then Bishop Callistus) as a "saint"? Should we therefore consider as validation against the monarchians a rebellious schismatic individual whom the Catholic church venerated as a saint? What makes his writings authoritative? How do we know that he is not misrepresenting Noetus' positions and teachings?