Fw: Jesus lived to be an old man?

Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:56:03 -0500 (00889696563, 19980312034831.AAA18293@briandea)


MIKE
"Papias, Bishop of Hieropolis, held claim to being the first of the church
fathers after the lives of the Apostles and claimed to have known the
Apostles or at least the disciples of disciples of the Lord but most 
certainly the Evangelist St. John. One of the several unusual holdings of 
Father Papias was that Jesus Christ lived to be an old man and
lived to died in peace with his family. This dissonant perspective was
later held also to be true by Irenaeus."


>From http://www.i1.net/~ednwatch/Gospel.of.Time.viii.html
NOTE: The historical accounts attributed to Papias are accepted by fundamentalists as respecting who authored the Gospels. Why isn't this part? RON This is all conjecture. Where are your sources and quotes. For example, what authoritative (my understanding is that fundamentalists answer to no one "authority") source do you have to prove fundamentalists accept anything? Where can you quote Irenaeus saying that "Christ lived to be an old man, dying with his family"? Where does the Church accept the veracity or claims of Papias?