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To: Cronos
it doesn't say that Scriptura is sufficient, just that it is profitable

“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." 2 Tim 3:14-15

Let’s look at context and reality:

1. This was written to Timothy
2. Timothy was born in 17 AD

The Scripture Timothy knew from infancy and what Paul is referring to is The Old Testament. The New Testament wasn't written at the time of Timothy’s infancy. This doesn’t mean what some want it to mean. Paul was telling Timothy that Christ did fulfill the OT prophecies, that Timothy was "made wise" for the salvation of Christ. Nowhere do the apostles tell future generations that the Christian faith will be based solely on a book.

6 posted on 05/31/2010 6:51:11 AM PDT by FatherofFive (0bama is dangerous and must be stopped.)
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To: FatherofFive
If the both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches claim to follow apostolic oral tradition, how is it that they teach doctrine so differently?

How do I know whose oral traditions are correct?

9 posted on 05/31/2010 6:59:56 AM PDT by Anti-Utopian ("Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage." -King Lear [V,iii,6-8])
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To: FatherofFive

“The Scripture Timothy knew from infancy and what Paul is referring to is The Old Testament. The New Testament wasn’t written at the time of Timothy’s infancy. This doesn’t mean what some want it to mean. Paul was telling Timothy that Christ did fulfill the OT prophecies, that Timothy was “made wise” for the salvation of Christ. Nowhere do the apostles tell future generations that the Christian faith will be based solely on a book” —> well put


15 posted on 05/31/2010 7:06:06 AM PDT by Cronos (Origen(200AD)"The Church received from theApostles the tradition of giving Baptism even to infants")
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