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To: ex-snook
You disagree with that and think something what is true is silly. Jesus read Jewish scripture but did not write Christian scripture

The Gospels are actually OT ( written before the church was founded) Jesus taught from the scriptures that told of His coming and they were sufficient for salvation.

Jesus did not HAVE to write scripture, He did not come to write scripture. That would be the work of another of the trinity, the Holy Spirit. Jesus came to be the propitiation for the sins of men, not to write a book.

The fact He did not PHYSICALLY write the scriptures does not mean they are not the inspired word of God

Jesus believed in teaching through people both good and bad. He selected Apostles and told them to teach. He established an Apostolic succession with Peter as the head. It still is what it was and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Please show us where Jesus established "apostolic succession" . Please show us where Jesus told anyone the gifts he gave them were transferable to others.

244 posted on 06/01/2007 5:57:20 PM PDT by ears_to_hear
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To: ears_to_hear
John 17:20-26 20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."

Teach wanted to teach through people not books. Others come and go but Peter the Rock continues. Don't kick against the goad.

387 posted on 06/02/2007 8:21:57 AM PDT by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: ears_to_hear
The Gospels are actually OT ( written before the church was founded)

How so? Most people would say the church was founded at Pentecost.

468 posted on 06/02/2007 12:51:07 PM PDT by Lee N. Field
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