As all men have sinned in Adam, lie under the curse, and are deserving of eternal death, God would have done no injustice by leaving them all to perish and delivering them over to condemnation on account of sin, according to the words of the apostle...
The Council of Orange was convened primarily due to the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius. The controversy had to do with the degree to which man is responsible for his own salvation, and the role of the grace of God in bringing about salvation.
Most who adhere to the King James Only nonsense have never read the preface to the Bible they claim is perfect. When you read the words of those who worked on it, you see that modern claims about what happened are ridiculous.
Pliny the Younger was governor of Pontus/Bithynia from 111-113 AD. He exchanged letters with the Roman emperor Trajan on some administrative matters. This exchange is the most famous, in which Pliny first encounters Christianity.
Peri Pascha ("On the Passover") was written by Melito of Sardis between 160 AD and 170 AD. Melito was the Bishop of Sardis, one of the seven churches mentioned in Revelation.
The Third Council of Constantinople (681 AD) picked up where The Definition of Chalcedon left off, addressing whether the two natures of Christ (human and divine) also had two separate wills.
Eutichus taught that Christ's two natures (human and divine) combined to create a third, distinct nature. He taught that Christ's two natures interacted with each other so that He was no longer really divine, and no longer really human. The Council of Chalcedon condemned this teaching in 451.
Trying to find that obscure document for a homework assignment? It just might be here. I've collected a pretty sizeable group of documents from the early Christian church and the rest of the ancient world.
