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To: kosta50
Kosta: What about the infallibility of the NT?

What about it? Is it important that every "i" is dotted and every "t" crossed? The important thing is, as +John Chrysostom said:

But if there be anything touching times or places, which they have related differently, this nothing injures the truth of what they have said. And these things too, so far as God shall enable us, we will endeavor, as we proceed, to point out; requiring you, together with what we have mentioned, to observe, that in the chief heads, those which constitute our life and furnish out our doctrine, nowhere is any of them found to have disagreed, no not ever so little.

But what are these points? Such as follow: That God became man, that He wrought miracles, that He was crucified, that He was buried, that He rose again, that He ascended, that He will judge, that He hath given commandments tending to salvation, that He hath brought in a law not contrary to the Old Testament, that He is a Son, that He is only-begotten, that He is a true Son, that He is of the same substance with the Father, and as many things as are like these; for touching these we shall find that there is in them a full agreement.

The point is that all this actually happened, at a very specific time and place in actual history. You referenced the Creed about the Holy Spirit, the "Lord, the Giver of Life," and that same Creed attests to this specific historical reality with the words "under Pontius Pilate." It happened. "I believe..."

Now, if you really care about dotting every "i" and crossing every "t", +Augustine attempted to do just that.

3,021 posted on 02/25/2008 5:13:21 PM PST by Zero Sum (Liberalism: The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit! (apologies to Rabbi Benny Lau))
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To: Zero Sum
Is it important that every "i" is dotted and every "t" crossed?

I don't know. It is easy to see that they are not. Truth doe snot need harmonizing. The Church does two things: it leads us in prayer in liturgy and it tells us what the Gospels say about Christ's own life, so that we may imitate Him.

That's all that matters: worship Father, Son and Holy Spirit, accoridng to our faith once delievered, and imitate Christ.

3,056 posted on 02/25/2008 10:10:57 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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