Just last week, area Protestant Mike Green, 33, learned through a conversation with a Catholic friend that the Christian religion is over 500 years old.
"I was having this conversation with a Catholic friend of mine," Green started. "Well, he's not really a friend since he's a Catholic and is going to burn in hell. The only reason I talk to him is so that he might be saved. Anyway, he mentioned someone named Saint Francis the Sissy who lived during the 13th century. I then asked him what this Saint guy had to do with Christianity. He told me that Saint Francis *was* a Christian. Then I asked him how he could be a Christian before Martin Luther had come along. This question must have really stumped him because he got a blank look on his face and just stared at me for a full minute!"
It was then that the shocking revelation came. "My friend then explained to me that there were Christians in the centuries prior to the Reformation and that Christianity actually goes all the way back to the time of Jesus! I couldn't believe it! *My* religion? All the way back to Jesus?! AMAZING!" Green was so excited about the revelation that he's begun doing research on church history. "I can't wait to find out what early church fathers had to say about the Five Solas!"
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