How does First Harvest Ministries explain the historical significance of the Quartodeciman controversy?

First Harvest Ministries points to the Quartodeciman controversy (around 190 AD) as a turning point of apostasy in church history, not a minor dating dispute.

In these teachings, Asian congregations kept Passover on the 14th day of the first month following the apostles (John, Polycarp, Polycrates), while Rome shifted to a Sunday “Easter,” cutting ties with the biblical calendar and with Israel’s roots.

When Victor of Rome excommunicated the Quartodeciman churches and Polycrates replied, “We obey God rather than man,” First Harvest presents that moment as:

• The triumph of tradition over apostolic testimony
• The doorway to later changes: Trinity at Nicaea, baptism formulas, rejection of the millennial kingdom, etc.

In short, it is treated as the formal break from apostolic practice toward Romanized Christianity.

Would you like a short timeline of those events from Polycarp to Victor of Rome?