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And just how much time have you spent studying his life and work? Do you know what he actually taught and why? Have you been a Berean in the Acts 17 sense and searched the Scriptures to disprove Calvin?

Proverbs 18:13 “He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.”


3 posted on 05/28/2014 7:58:27 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: .45 Long Colt
Do you know what he actually taught and why? Have you been a Berean in the Acts 17 sense and searched the Scriptures to disprove Calvin?

The Bereans, on the other hand, were not adherents of sola scriptura, for they were willing to accept Paul’s new oral teaching as the word of God (as Paul claimed his oral teaching was; see 1 Thess. 2:13). The Bereans, before accepting the oral word of God from Paul, a tradition as even Paul himself refers to it (see 2 Thess. 2:15), examined the Scriptures to see if these things were so. They were noble-minded precisely because they "received the word with all eagerness." Were the Bereans commended primarily for searching the Scriptures? No. Their open-minded willingness to listen was the primary reason they are referred to as noble-minded—not that they searched the Scriptures.

Why did the Bereans search the Scriptures? Because they were the sole source of revelation and authority? No, but to see if Paul was in line with what they already knew—to confirm additional revelation. They would not submit blindly to his apostolic teaching and oral tradition, but, once they accepted the credibility of Paul’s teaching as the oral word of God, they put it on a par with Scripture and recognized its binding authority. After that, like the converts who believed in Thessalonica, they espoused apostolic Tradition and the Old Testament equally as God’s word (see 2 Thess. 2:15, 3:16). Therefore they accepted apostolic authority, which means that the determinations of Peter in the first Church council, reported in Acts 15, would have been binding on these new Gentile converts.

By contrast, the Jews of Thessalonica would have condemned Peter’s biblical exegesis at the Council of Jerusalem. They would have scoffed at the Church’s having authority over them—the Torah was all they needed.

Ray, S. (1997). Why The Bereans Reject Sola Scriptura. This Rock Magazine. Retrieved May 28, 2014

7 posted on 05/28/2014 8:13:40 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: .45 Long Colt; FatherofFive

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8 posted on 05/28/2014 8:18:04 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (I sooooo miss America!)
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To: .45 Long Colt
Do you know what he actually taught and why?

Yes, that is why I know he is wrong!

11 posted on 05/28/2014 8:25:10 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: .45 Long Colt

Give it up! They can’t help being against Calvin.


14 posted on 05/28/2014 8:34:42 PM PDT by Jemian (I CHOSE to be a CALVINIST! ( yes, I do know...))
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