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To: 2sheep
Should we tabulate all of these modern day prophecies and add them to the Bible, then? How about some discernment? Read about how Gideon made double sure that what he was hearing was indeed the Word of God and not a command hallucination.

Religious enthusiasm and euphoria is no substitute for reasoned analysis. That's how the Church Fathers determined what actually constituted Canon in the first place.

88 posted on 09/15/2001 7:55:20 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely
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To: Mortimer Snavely cc: Thinkin' Gal
You should not try big words like "discernment" until you are up to speed on simple ones like "hear" and "repent" --

Lu 12:56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

As to your Church fathers --

Jer 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Mt 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

89 posted on 09/15/2001 8:10:51 PM PDT by 2sheep
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