Originally Posted by
Giver
....Constantine the Great started the down ward slide of the Church, and it has been going that way ever sense.....
Yeah, realy.
It's as if he has no idea that the bishop of Rome, Anicetus, departed from Apostolic Tradition even earlier, as Ireneaus notes:
"Anicetus could not persuade Polycarp to forgo the [Quartodeciman] observance inasmuch as these things had been always observed by John the disciple of the Lord, and by other apostles with whom he had been conversant; nor did Polycarp persuade Anicetus to keep it: Anicetus said that he must hold to the way of the elders before him."