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To: boatbums

I don’t know who those guys are, but you can bet I’m not going to trust them over early Fathers of the Church. If they’re not a Bishop of the Church, their opinion of scripture means zero to me. They had nothing to do with the compilation of the Bible. They can state their beliefs in pink unicorns on Jupiter for all I care.


3,324 posted on 11/26/2010 9:19:27 PM PST by getoffmylawn (aka R.P. McMurphy)
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To: getoffmylawn
Well just go to the link and read about them. BTW...you should know that nearly all of the early church fathers believed in the inerrancy and total authority of Holy Scripture. Here are a few:

ST. IRENAEUS OF LYONS (130-202)


We have known the method of our salvation by no other means than those by whom the gospel came to us; which gospel they truly preached; but afterward, by the will of God, they delivered to us in the Scriptures, to be for the future the foundation and pillar of our faith. (Adv. H. 3:1) 

Read more diligently that gospel which is given to us by the apostles; and read more diligently the prophets, and you will find every action and the whole doctrine of our Lord preached in them. (Adv. H. 4:66

ORIGEN (185?-252)


In which (the two Testaments) every word that appertains to God may be required and discussed; and all knowledge may be understood out of them. But if anything remain which the Holy Scripture does not determine, no other third Scripture ought to be received for authorizing any knowledge or doctrine; but that which remains we must commit to the fire, that is, we will reserve it for God. For in this present world God would not have us to know all things. (Orig. in Lev., hom. 5, 9:6)

ST. CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE (200?-258)


Whence comes this tradition? Does it descend from the Lord’s authority, or from the commands and epistles of the apostles? For those things are to be done which are there written. ... If it be commanded in the gospels or the epistles and Acts of the Apostles, then let this holy tradition be observed. (Ep. 74 ad Pompeium) 


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HIPPOLYTUS ( -230?) 


There is one God, whom we do not otherwise acknowledge, brethren, but out of the Holy Scriptures. For as he that would possess the wisdom of this world cannot otherwise obtain it than to read the doctrines of the philosophers; so whosoever of us will exercise piety toward God cannot learn this elsewhere but out of the Holy Scriptures Whatsoever, therefore, the Holy Scriptures do preach, that let us know, and whatsoever they teach, that let us understand. (Hip. tom. 3, Bibliotheque Patrium, ed. 

Colonna)

ST. ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA* (300?-375)


The Holy Scriptures, given by inspiration of God, are of themselves sufficient toward the discovery of truth. (Orat. adv. Gent., ad cap.) 

The Catholic Christians will neither speak nor endure to hear any thing in religion that is a stranger to Scripture; it being an evil heart of immodesty to speak those things which are not written. (Exhort. ad Monachas) 


ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM (315?-386)


Not even the least of the divine and holy mysteries of the faith ought to be handed down without the divine Scriptures. Do not simply give faith to me speaking these things to you except you have the proof of what I say from the divine Scriptures. For the security and preservation of our faith are not supported by ingenuity of speech, but by the proofs of the divine Scriptures. (Cat. 4) 


3,325 posted on 11/26/2010 9:53:20 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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