“Now, although Paul was carried away even to the third heaven, and was caught up to paradise, and heard certain revelations there, yet these cannot possibly seem to have qualified him for (teaching) another doctrine, seeing that their very nature was such as to render them communicable to no human being. If, however, that unspeakable mystery did leak out, and become known to any man, and if any heresy affirms that it does itself follow the same, (then) either Paul must be charged with having betrayed the secret, or some other man must actually be shown to have been afterwards ‘caught up into paradise,’ who had permission to speak out plainly what Paul was not allowed (even) to mutter.” Tertullian, Prescription Against the Heretics, Ch. 24
Anyone hear an application to the TBN-Pentecostalist-Romanist-Charismatic (including AMiA) loons?
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