The Kerygmata Petrou (3rd century) condemns those who reject the teaching that Adam "possessed the great and holy Spirit of divine foreknowledge" when he came from "the hands of the Creator."
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Johannes Irmscher Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Translation
- Reference
Kerygmata Petrou 17.1, in Johannes Irmscher and Georg Strecker, “The Pseudo-Clementines,” New Testament Apocrypha, ed. Wilhelm Schneemelcher, 2 vols. (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1992), 2: 531
- Scribe/Publisher
- Westminster John Knox Press
- People
- Johannes Irmscher, Georg Strecker
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
17.1 ‘If any one dies that the man (= Adam) who came from the hands of the Creator of all things possessed the great and holy Spirit of divine foreknowledge, but acknowledges that another did this who was begotten of impure seed, how does he not commit a grievous sin? 2. I do not believe that such an one fill find pardon even if he has been misdirected to this affront to the Father of all things by a forged passage of Scripture. . . .
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