In this episode of Against the Mountains of Madness, Jason and John examine the tension between history, authority, and heresy, sparked by a debate between Joe Heschmeyer and Dr. James White . They argue that nearly every heresy begins with rewriting history—whether by downplaying the authority of the early Church, misrepresenting figures like St. Ignatius, or reducing complex doctrines into simplistic slogans.

Key themes include:
• Authority & Scripture: Why the Bible’s authority cannot stand apart from the Church that compiled, preserved, and canonized it.
• Development of Doctrine: How Catholic practices—from Marian devotion to the Mass—organically grew from early Church roots, like a duckling becoming a duck, rather than being later “corruptions.”
• The Trinity & Heresy: The struggle of the early Church to clarify the mystery of the Trinity against heresies such as Arianism, modalism, and Patripassianism, showing how paradox must be embraced rather than flattened by reason alone.
• Philosophy & Context: Why understanding Greek, Jewish, and historical context is essential to reading Scripture and the Fathers—without it, anachronisms and distortions abound.
• Protestant vs. Catholic Views: How Protestant history often skips centuries, creating the illusion of a “lost” or “hidden” true church, when in fact Catholic continuity is visible in early writings, prayers, and practices.
• Modern Parallels: From communists reinterpreting the apostles’ communal living to progressives rewriting history, the same impulse to simplify and distort repeats across time.

Ultimately, they argue that heresy thrives on historical amnesia, while the truth of the Church is found in continuity, paradox, and fidelity to what was handed down.