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=Matching Historical Documents=
We can learn a lot about how the early church viewed scripture by looking at how some of the early church fathers interpreted passages.  Match each of the quotes from the early church together with the relevant passage of scripture.
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| Revelation 20:4 || <blockquote>For all the saints and Elect of God are gathered, prior to the Tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins <ref>On the Last Times, the Antichrist, and the End of the World, as cited in Geisler, Norman L. Systematic theology: In one volume. Bethany House, 2011. page 1495</ref></blockquote>. 
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| ||<blockquote>Go therefore, and declare to the elect of the Lord His mighty works, and tell them that this beast is a type of the great tribulation which is to come. If therefore ye prepare yourselves beforehand, and repent (and turn) unto the Lord with your whole heart, ye shall be able to escape it, if your heart be made pure and without blemish, and if for the remaining days of your life ye serve the Lord blamelessly. Cast your cares upon the Lord and He will set them straight. <ref>http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/shepherd-lightfoot.html, 2[23]:5</ref></blockquote>
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| 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ||<blockquote>To these belong his statement that there will be a period of some thousand years after the resurrection of the dead, and that the kingdom of Christ will be set up in material form on this very earth. I suppose he got these ideas through a misunderstanding of the apostolic accounts, not perceiving that the things said by them were spoken mystically in figures. <ref>Eusebius Pamphilus, Ecclesiastical History, 3.39.13 http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250103.htm</ref></blockquote>
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=Matching Scripture to Counter Doctrines=
Just because early Christians believed something does not automatically mean that is a correct belief.

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| Colossians 2 || The false doctrine of doceticism involves the denial of Christ's humanity 
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| Ephesians 2:8-9 || The early church struggled with some who falsely adopted the doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration.
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| 1 John 4:1-6 || Protognosticism was the precursor to gnosticism, which taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge.
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