No one has a right to nullify anything of God-including the Apostles. That right is reserved for God alone. God showed Peter and Paul, both, that circumcision meant nothing.
Circumcision to the Jews was suppose to be nothing more than an outward sign of an inward change, like baptism is to Christians. God was furious with the Jews who went through the rituals of circumcision and yet lived their lives like everyone else. He stated:
As 1000 rightly pointed out, this was part of the old covenant that God, Himself, tossed out. He is the ONLY one who can do so because He kept His end of the bargin. God brought in a NEW covenant and sealed His Spirit within us so that His people would be obedient. He told the apostles what He was doing and they relayed the message. The Bereans, who were more nobel than the Thessalonicans (Act 17) searched the scriptures (Old Testament) to see if what the Apostles were saying was correct, and they confirmed it based upon the scriptures.
The Church preaches a Gospel of Love, His one commandment.
With all due respect, this is not God's ONE commandment. You are to:
BTW, I like the contrast of preaching the "gospel of love" that you mention and my scripture passage from Jeremiah of how God's wrath with go out on the disobedient.
My whole point, that has been either ignored or misunderstood, (sorry if it is my fault, silverlings) is that the Apostles of 47 AD made a decision based on oral teachings and the authority given to them from whom they thought was God. This decision (which they thought was from God) was NOT based in the Old Testament, the Scriptures that they then had. Thus, the decision to do away with part of God's "eternal" covenant was done WITHOUT Sola Scriptura. This is a precedent that the Catholic Church continues to this day.
If you accept that the Apostles acted without Sola Scriptura, it naturally leads one to accept that their successors continue to have this power and that Sola Scriptura was never used by the Church. Merely looking at Acts 15 and what the Apostles did thoroughly disproves the idea that the Church would ever use Sola Scriptura.
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