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To: Mr Rogers

So God told you personally that the Book of Revelation is Scripture?

If so, I’m impressed.


23 posted on 11/06/2011 9:26:50 AM PST by FourtySeven (When does the race card run out of credit?)
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To: FourtySeven

Has God sent me a list, possibly by email? No.

Does the Holy Spirit speak to me when I read Revelations? Not a lot, really, but enough for me to be content with it on the list.

Does the Holy Spirit speak to me as I read the Shepherd of Hermas, or the Epistle of Barnabas? Nope - other than to tell me it is NOT the word of God.

In like manner, when I read the Apocrypha, it is empty of God’s Spirit.

Add in that the vast majority of the christian church has accepted most of the NT almost as soon as it was penned, and all of the OT, and I am comfortable facing God’s judgement in the matter - for all of us will be judged as individuals.

Please also remember that a great many Catholic scholars said all along that the Apocrypha was good for reading, but not for doctrine, and I’ll have a lot of company in rejecting the Apocrypha as authoritative.

And to the best of my knowledge, there are only a couple verses in the entire Apocrypha used for doctrine by Roman Catholics.


24 posted on 11/06/2011 9:41:32 AM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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