Re: The Early Christians: Creed, Confession and Scripture

Megan R. wrote:

> The clear insight I drew from the Scriptures and my trust in them have
> only been confirmed by deceitful mimicking that the so-called Devil
> has circulated among the Greeks, and by all that he did likewise
> through Egyptian sorcerers and false prophets at the time of Elijah.
> 
> Justin, Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 69.1.
> 


It is said that seers and prophets lived at the time of the great writers,

who wrote down the truths they learned from them. How much more are we
able 
to comprehend the truth, we who are taught by the holy prophets, by those 
who had received God’s Holy Spirit within them! For this reason the
sayings 
of all the prophets foretelling the destiny of the whole world are in 
complete mutual accord.

From this elucidation one can see how our holy Scriptures prove more 
ancient and true than those of the Greeks and Egyptians or of any other 
historians.

When past times are reviewed together with all that has been said above, 
the great antiquity of the prophetic writings and the truly divine nature 
of our faith can be recognized. These truths are not new, and our
teachings 
are neither mythical nor false.

Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus III.17, 26, 29.