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To: MarkBsnr; Petronski
I just am amazed that a non Christian bothers to read John at all.

The YOPIOS crowd prefer to go straight to the epistles of Saint Paul. If the actual Words of Jesus Christ conflict with their interpretation of what Paul wrote, they dismiss the Teachings of Christ as allegorical or symbolic and proceed to construct a theology around their interpretation of the Pauline epistles.

Saint Peter explicitely warned that this would happen:

14 Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace. 15 And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. 17 You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.
-- 2 Peter 3:14-18

1,552 posted on 10/23/2009 11:34:52 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

That certainly addresses the issue.


1,554 posted on 10/23/2009 12:12:03 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: wagglebee

That right there is the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, delivered to us through the person of Pope Peter I.


1,556 posted on 10/23/2009 12:15:52 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: wagglebee

***I just am amazed that a non Christian bothers to read John at all.

The YOPIOS crowd prefer to go straight to the epistles of Saint Paul.***

Some of them, anyway. There is much redacted from the YOPIOS rendition of Paul, not as much as they redact the Gospels, but there is still significant elimination of verse.

***Saint Peter explicitely warned that this would happen:***

Since there is only an empty space in the YOPIOS Bibles between Hebrews and Revelation, this cannot be considered Scripture.


1,595 posted on 10/23/2009 3:15:43 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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