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Sola scriptura is the way.

Well, please remember, the truth is that that was not the way that it started out. When Jesus first sent out his Apostles to begin missionary work to evangelize the world, he did not send them out with Bibles (as the New Testament was not even written when he sent them out).

He explicitly told them, "Go therefore, and TEACH all nations..." (verbally) (See Matthew 28:18-20)

They had no complete Bibles to bring with them on those first missionary trips which they were commanded to undertake by Jesus Christ himself, only their verbal speech.

The beginnings of "Apostolic succession" are documented in the first chapter of Acts, where the successor of Judas was selected under the guidance of God.

296 posted on 03/12/2012 10:42:16 AM PDT by Heart-Rest ("The Church is the pillar and bulwark of the truth." (1 Timothy 3:15))

The beginnings of "Apostolic succession" are documented in the first chapter of Acts, where the successor of Judas was selected under the guidance of God.

And what were the requirements?

If you read the requirements for the replacement ... isn't it obvious that no one today meets those?

298 posted on 03/12/2012 10:48:12 AM PDT by dartuser ("If you are ... what you were ... then you're not.")

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