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To: fortheDeclaration
Yes, and if you reject this 'second best' which God gave because of man's sin, then you are twice damned!

Thank you for your judgment. I will, however, defer to the real Judge.

let us give strict heed unto the things that are written

And those would be...? This whole thread is about man-made decisions what are and aren't supposed to be Scriptures.

221 posted on 03/09/2007 6:02:13 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
Yes, and if you reject this 'second best' which God gave because of man's sin, then you are twice damned! Thank you for your judgment. I will, however, defer to the real Judge.

Well, that was what, Chrysostom said, whom you cited.

2. Reflect then how great an evil it is for us, who ought to live so purely as not even to need written words, but to yield up our hearts, as books, to the Spirit; now that we have lost that honor, and are come to have need of these, to fail again in duly employing even this second remedy. For if it be a blame to stand in need of written words, and not to have brought down on ourselves the grace of the Spirit; consider how heavy the charge of not choosing to profit even after this assistance, but rather treating what is written with neglect, as if it were cast forth without purpose, and at random, and so bringing down upon ourselves our punishment with increase.6 But that no such effect may ensue, let us give strict heed unto the things that are written; and let us learn how the Old Law was given on the one hand, how on the other the New Covenant.

let us give strict heed unto the things that are written And those would be...? This whole thread is about man-made decisions what are and aren't supposed to be Scriptures.

Once again, turn to your Church Father and see that he lists the Old Law and the New Covenant.

Now where in that discourse by Chrysostom, do you see anything that refers to the Scriptures as being 'man-made'.

. By whom Matthew also, being filled with the Spirit,

250 posted on 03/09/2007 11:07:41 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (For what saith the scripture? (Rom.4:3))
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