To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
It's a bit of a whitewash, don't you think, in that there is no authority from the New Testament for doing anything to "heretics" beside removing them from the congregation. And the secular power of the church was anathema to a "kingdom not of this world".
Hardly. There is no authority from the New Testament claiming that the New Testament, or the Bible, is the sole authority.
38 posted on
07/28/2005 8:51:41 AM PDT by
mike182d
("Let fly the white flag of war." - Zapp Brannigan)
To: mike182d
There is no authority from the New Testament claiming that the New Testament, or the Bible, is the sole authority.
There is no authority for anything else's claim to authority in Christianity, and certainly none in contradiction to it. So there you have it, it is redundant or in contradiction. There are no other possibilities.
43 posted on
07/28/2005 9:09:56 AM PDT by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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