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To: Campion
And I doubt very much that Baptists think they place the Bible in a position of authority higher than that of God, either.

Basically the point I was trying to make is that any Church that places itself above the revealed word of God so much to the point that it contradicts it is a false church. the Bible (on earth) is the only way to know the will of God.

Some chucrhes follow the Bible others are apostate and do not but follow men instead.

351 posted on 05/27/2004 12:05:22 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon
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To: ColdSteelTalon
Some chucrhes follow the Bible others are apostate and do not but follow men instead.

What about the first three hundred years of Christianity, where there was no new testament? Was the entire Church apostate before Pope St. Damasus put the Bible together in the 300s?
354 posted on 05/27/2004 12:20:20 PM PDT by broadsword (Liberalism is the societal AIDS virus that helps Islam to wage war against human civilization.)
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To: ColdSteelTalon
Some chucrhes follow the Bible others are apostate and do not but follow men instead.

This is abject ignorance. The "Bible" didn't exist for three hundred years after Christ's death. St. Paul didn't have "Gospels" to rely on and verse-and-chapter to back up his claims. He and everyone else giving birth to Christianity had nothing but the Scriptures of what we know as the "Old Testament", and good old, reliable... spoken TRADITION.

These were most definitely MEN, and most definitely FOLLOWED. St. Paul practically had his own cult of personality among believers, he was so revered.

By your logic, the founders of Christianity were apostate since they had an incomplete understanding of faith and God's will without a leather-bound Bible to cart around.

Do your homework on other faiths before throwing around words like "apostate".

356 posted on 05/27/2004 12:22:49 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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