To: stfassisi
Sounds like a very altered alternate reality to the one I’m familiar with.
285 posted on
03/15/2010 6:24:03 PM PDT by
Quix
(BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: Quix
Sounds like a very altered alternate reality to the one Im familiar with. Sounds like you have trouble facing what makes sense, so you alter your idea of reality to convince yourself
288 posted on
03/15/2010 6:38:58 PM PDT by
stfassisi
((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
To: Quix; stfassisi
StF: There NOT my personal interpretations ,quix ,Yours are. I am following the interpretations handed down through Apostolic succession through the ages and can back it up with Church Fathers writings who were involved in Bible canon,you cant do the same.
You also have no single protestant unity on your personal interpretations of scripture-this is why there is so many sects of protestants all claiming truth of interpretations that disagree with each other.
Quix Sounds like a very altered alternate reality to the one Im familiar with
Dear Quix -- it is reality where Personal interpretations have gone against scripture -- where in 2 Pet 1:20, Peter says "First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation" and in 2 Peter 3:15 to 16 he prophesies about the YOPIOS when he says "bear just as out dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction"
Private interpretation and instability in clinging tothe doctrines passed down from the apostles can thus result in one twisting Scripture to one's own sola interpretura desctruction.
As St. Paul says in 2 Timothy 2"2 "and the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others" and in 2 Thessalonians 2:15 "So then brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter" We are told that the first Christians "devoted themselves to the apostles teachigns" (acts 2:42) which was the oral teaching that was given even before the New Testament was written
297 posted on
03/15/2010 7:00:52 PM PDT by
Cronos
(Philipp2:12, 2Cor5:10, Rom2:6, Matt7:21, Matt22:14, Lu12:42-46,John15:1-10,Rev2:4-5,Rev22:19)
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