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To: dasboot
Islam, Judaism, Catholic, Mormon: The Bible is a living, breathing document.

Pharisees and Sadducee's

Sorry, but the "Sadducee's" were on your side in this argument, since they rejected the Oral Torah.

And I reject sola scriptura. The Written Torah is nothing but a string of consonants that only the Oral Torah can decipher (all chr*stian translations are based on this Oral tradition, btw, so there goes that argument).

My only dog in this fight is the Catholic/Orthodox relinquishing of Biblical inerrancy and their slavish caving in to evolution and modernism.

14 posted on 03/26/2010 12:45:58 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Hinneh, 'Anokhi sholeach lakhem 'et 'Eliyyah HaNavi'; lifney bo' yom HaShem hagadol vehanora'!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
The Sadducees were elitists who wanted to maintain the priestly caste, but they were also liberal in their willingness to incorporate Hellenism into their lives, something the Pharisees opposed. The Sadducees rejected the idea of the Oral Law and insisted on a literal interpretation of the Written Law; consequently, they did not believe in an afterlife, since it is not mentioned in the Torah. The main focus of Sadducee life was rituals associated with the Temple.

That part.

My dog[not in any fight] is that all of these, and more of them, reject the wholeness of the Word as spoke by God when on earth, as a man....much like progressives, whom we loathe, reject the same with the Constitution. A parallel.

And while Catholics bob, weave, bend, fabricate and parry to protect the sanctity of their later tradition, ceremony, and 'revelation'.....it is not unlike any of the above. They all reject 'sola scriptura'.

Just an observation while reading. Felt like posting it.

15 posted on 03/26/2010 1:24:07 PM PDT by dasboot
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