“Christian converts often faced the choice between clever, eloquently defended heresy and a seemingly ignorant orthodoxy"

–Bruce Shelley on Christians in the early church

2 Peter 1:16

“For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. "

“God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made with hands”