I've already discussed the issue about sources. You're asking the wrong questions of them, and so you're misapplying everything that these sources can tell you. You should be looking at sources that somehow relate to the formation of the early church - from its earliest time until the end of the first century.
The grossest misinterpretation, then, is that you've taken late sources and pretended that they apply to earlier times, when in fact we have earlier sources that do just that.
If you're interested in the separation of the Gentile Christianity from its Jewish roots, you should have started by comparing second temple Judaism with the NT and other early Christian literature.
AND, I did not claim that Eusebius is reliable. That's your fantasy, and it's not even a very good one.
Quote me where I claimed that you claim Eusebius was reliable. It was a question. You obviously don't want to answer why you consider S-Scholasticus unreliable, nor do you want to answer the specifics. You claim you discussed the sources, where? If you write off all Historians of the era as unreliable (especially without explaining why), at what point does ALL history of the subject become unreliable?
Did you even read Scholasticus's quote? It was about HIS time period. The 5th century. Sabbath keeping on the 5th century.
There are basically no solid accounts of the 1st and early 2nd century. At best there are interpolations in Ignatius' writings which attack the "Judaizers" who appear to be the majority. I'd be surprised if there was a movement TOWARDS Sabbath keeping by the 5th century. Do you have any evidence that the Original 1st century church was anything close to the post 5th century "Orthodox" form? There is much evidence of the Ebionites for example, who were the other communities at the time before Marcion?
There are writings of Church Fathers and such, but whether or not they represent the original teachings or what the modernists resemble in the "orthodox" residue is equally inexplainable.
Once again, why do you think the Orthodox felt the need to publicly forbid Sabbath observance on threat of death?
At the very beginning, the Romans made no distinction between Jews and Christians. It wasn't until around Marcion's time that the movement away from the 2nd Temple Judaic influence originated, though it can be said to have been going since the Epistles of Paul and Peter. "The Lawless".
"Away from me, ye doers of Lawlessness". Matthew 7:22-23
PS I'm a big fan of early Christian literature like the Shepherd of Hermas and the Acts of Peter, but not Gospel of Thomas. Maybe Acts of Thomas. I mentioned the Didache too I believe.
