Through the late first century and early into the middle second century the discourse of repentance had seemed to long since disappear from the preaching of the good news.
Many of the records we have today are filled with apologies and writings against heresies.
To understand what has happened, and how Christianity has been shaped into the institution it is, we have to look at those who shaped the culture and moved us to the adulteration with the man of lawlessness.