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To: Petronski
And yet, "very little extrapolation" is still "extrapolation," and beyond sola scriptura.

No, because it is in there. One just has to finesse it out of the pages...

The Spirit overshadowed Mary, yet Jehovah declares Jesus His son. The only logical conclusion to that dilemma is to understand that God the Father, and God the Spirit must be one and the same.

Jesus declares Himself God, as do His Apostles. Yet Jehovah says there is only one God, and He is that God... So either Jesus s a lier and a blasphemer, or He and God must be one and the same.

The OT claims the Spirit was the tool in God's hand at the creation, but the NT declares that everything that was made, was made by Christ, so the Ghost and the Christ are one and the same.

This sort of comparative goes on and on. It is extrapolated, but all of the extrapolation is internal to the Scriptures, and is repeated enough throughout to form a theme.

It is a very different thing from the Marian concepts, which have little (I would say no) scriptural foundation and rely extensively upon tradition.

I point to the 'Trinity concept' as the sort of non-explicit, non-declared interpretation that is excepted by Protestants, because it is at least thematically presented throughout, and really stands on it's own foundation within the Word, without the need for the Traditional support.

78 posted on 04/21/2008 2:40:34 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1
One just has to finesse it out of the pages...

LOL

Somehow I'm reminded of the idea of "just a little pregnant."

It is a very different thing from the Marian concepts, which have little (I would say no) scriptural foundation...

You would be wrong.

79 posted on 04/21/2008 2:42:54 PM PDT by Petronski (Vivat Benedict XVI!)
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