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To: RobRoy
I respect, on it’s own, NOTHING done by other men since Jesus life.

Not even the commitment of His life and teachings to writing?

40 posted on 01/13/2010 4:03:43 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
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To: Jeff Chandler

>>Not even the commitment of His life and teachings to writing?<<

God inspired. Everything else is the opinions of men.


46 posted on 01/13/2010 6:56:35 PM PST by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Jeff Chandler; RobRoy

“I respect, on it’s own, NOTHING done by other men since Jesus life.”

If you think about it, YOPIOS requires that position.

If you concede that some men may be holier than others, wiser than others, or have assistance from the Holy Spirit not enjoyed by each individual, or if you concede that generations of men laboring down the centuries may add to and refine our understanding of the Scriptures in a way no single lifetime would allow...

Well, then, it becomes impossible to claim that one’s own understanding is as good as anyone else’s, or that one can open up the Bible on any old day and read any scripture, and understand it completely and correctly.

As G. K. Chesterton wrote, “There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked, all the ways that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them.”

To maintain faith in YOPIOS, one must cavalierly dismiss twenty centuries of the spiritual and intellectual work product of history’s greatest minds and holiest men as nothing more than something done by other men, as though one could stay home from work one morning and recreate it by noon.


53 posted on 01/13/2010 7:58:47 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Jeff Chandler; RobRoy

And what about the life and works and writings of St. Paul? All done after Jesus’ life.


144 posted on 01/14/2010 10:36:30 PM PST by Melian ("Here's the moral of the story: Catholic witness has a cost." ~Archbishop Charles Chaput)
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