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→Historical silence: to phrase " individual heretics and certain heretical movements" added "which began years after the ascension of Christ and the day of Pentecost which grew and spread."
=== Historical silence ===
=== Historical silence ===
There is no mention in any of the writings of the early Fathers of a great apostasy of the whole Church or any sort of battle for the faith on such a scale. They mention individual heretics and certain heretical movements, but there is no mention of any sort of total apostasy. ''If it is assumed'' that the Church Fathers were part of the apostasy ''then'' it is likely that the Church Fathers would have mentioned their newly developed doctrine as a contrast in condemnation of the Christians who still stubbornly remained faithful to the older apostolic teachings! But there is no sign in the writings of the Church Fathers of such a controversy, nor are there any other writings which support the notion of a mass apostasy from the true faith. History is totally silent. History mentions other great splits and schisms within the Church (such as the [[Ebionites]], [[Arianism]], the [[Great Schism]] between the Orthodox and the Catholics in 1054, and the [[Protestant Reformation]] which began in 1517) but about this massive schism there is total silence.
There is no mention in any of the writings of the early Fathers of a great apostasy of the whole Church or any sort of battle for the faith on such a scale. They mention individual heretics and certain heretical movements which began years after the ascension of Christ and the day of Pentecost which grew and spread, but there is no mention of any sort of total apostasy. ''If it is assumed'' that the Church Fathers were part of the apostasy ''then'' it is likely that the Church Fathers would have mentioned their newly developed doctrine as a contrast in condemnation of the Christians who still stubbornly remained faithful to the older apostolic teachings! But there is no sign in the writings of the Church Fathers of such a controversy, nor are there any other writings which support the notion of a mass apostasy from the true faith. History is totally silent. History mentions other great splits and schisms within the Church (such as the [[Ebionites]], [[Arianism]], the [[Great Schism]] between the Orthodox and the Catholics in 1054, and the [[Protestant Reformation]] which began in 1517) but about this massive schism there is total silence.
===== Excommunicated heretics =====
===== Excommunicated heretics =====