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To: Natural Law

“Not all Apostles wrote and not all writings attributed to them are inerrant or original.”


So which book of the New Testament that Ignatius or Polycarp quoted from, before the end of the first century and into the second, that is not “inerrant or original”? Since according to you, none of the Apostles considered their works scripture (Luke is quoted and called scripture by Paul), and therefore did not make it a point to collect their works and send them. (How is it that Paul commented on the epistles of Paul, calling them scripture, if Paul and Peter were too busy evangelizing separately?) And did the Romanists truck their canon of scripture to the farthest ends of the Earth to let the hapless converts in faraway places know they finally figured out what was the word of God?


69 posted on 04/25/2013 1:38:49 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans; Natural Law
So which book of the New Testament that Ignatius or Polycarp quoted from, before the end of the first century and into the second, that is not “inerrant or original”?

It would be helpful if you could provide a citation and source.

71 posted on 04/25/2013 1:48:54 PM PDT by NYer (Beware the man of a single book - St. Thomas Aquinas)
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"So which book of the New Testament that Ignatius or Polycarp quoted from, before the end of the first century and into the second, that is not “inerrant or original”?"

I did not say that any of the writings within the Canon of Scripture were not inerrant or original. I said not all writings by or attributed to actual Apostles were inerrant. These include Gnostic works like the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Judas and the Proto-Evangelium of James. The test of Canonicity was both what to include and what to exclude.

Nowhere did I say that "none of the Apostles considered their works scripture". And yes, when the Canon of Scripture was proclaimed in the late 4th century the "Romanists" shared the proclamation with the whole world.

Peace be with you

74 posted on 04/25/2013 2:26:09 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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