{"id":12685,"date":"2013-02-04T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2013-02-04T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:34:53","slug":"total-apostasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/total-apostasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Apostasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When speaking to non-Catholic Christians, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons and Muslims, the discussion will often turn to <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;The Great Apostasy&#8221;<\/em><\/span>. All these groups believe, to varying degrees, that there was a massive departure from &#8220;real&#8221; Christianity in \u00a0the Early Church and the Faith was lost.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, a little knowledge of Scripture and Early Church history can rebut this assertion and this should be in the\u00a0arsenal\u00a0of every Catholic. With this in mind, I&#8217;d invite you to go and read the fantastic post by Brantly Millegan over at\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Young, Evangelical and Catholic&#8221;<\/em><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youngevangelicalandcatholic.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/updated-how-quickly-catholic-heresy.html\" target=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16149\" alt=\"Great Apostasy\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Great-Apostasy-1024x779.png\" width=\"553\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Great-Apostasy-1024x779.png 1024w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Great-Apostasy-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Great-Apostasy.png 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When speaking to non-Catholic Christians, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons and Muslims, the discussion will often turn to &#8220;The Great Apostasy&#8221;. All these groups believe, to varying degrees, that there was a massive departure from &#8220;real&#8221; Christianity in \u00a0the Early Church and the Faith was lost. Fortunately, a little knowledge of Scripture and Early Church history can rebut this assertion and this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[991,51,1696,1868,1869,1870,1867],"class_list":["post-12685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-brantly-millegan","tag-early-church-fathers","tag-early-church-history","tag-evangelical-and-catholic","tag-great-apostasy","tag-total-apostasy","tag-young"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12685"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17572,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions\/17572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}