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To: rbmillerjr

All Christ did was indeed inspired of God, but what i am referring to was records of what He said and did, which if written wholly inspired, would be part of the revelation that the Holy Spirit states is wholly inspired. To hold that a written or oral tradition is equal to that is to essentially hold that that the canon is not closed. And to allow the teaching as God-inspired doctrines that are the unwarranted commandments of men.

“The canon of Scripture is itself a tradition..”

Indeed it is, though the inspired books are established as Scripture not due to ecclesiastical decree, but to their manifest enduring purity and power down thru history. And as i also stated, sola scriptura does not disallow history, or God “speaking” to us today, but such must be subject to the established (2 Tim. 3:16) word of God, the Scriptures, which what the Lord and His apostles often proved things by (in addition to powerful Divine attestation), and were themselves proved to be sound by.


187 posted on 07/03/2008 1:04:40 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Give your sins and life to Him who died your us and rose again. Jesus is Lord.)
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To: daniel1212

“Indeed it is, though the inspired books are established as Scripture not due to ecclesiastical decree, but to their manifest enduring purity and power down thru history”

The Biblical Canon you hold dear was established by the authority of the Catholic Church. Most Protestant scholars even concede this. There are some parts that were taken out in the 1500’s by some who split from the Church in the Reformation period. Anything else is a rationalization - such as denial that Reformers used this Churches Canon until it didn’t meet there needs. They THEY independently changed the nature of the Bible with no authority.


189 posted on 07/03/2008 1:57:16 PM PDT by rbmillerjr ("bigger government means constricting freedom"....................RWR)
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