Posted on 01/25/2014 6:51:38 AM PST by GonzoII
So you think that the blind go to hell?
Paul NEVER spoke about his words or the words of Jesus should be reproduced or translated or preserved. Paul never told us that we needed a “Bible” much less which Books were Sacred and which were not.
>> Paul never told us that we needed a “Bible” much less which Books were Sacred and which were not. <<
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You are confused?
To Paul, and to the other apostles, “scripture” was the Tanakh. And he preached it as vital to salvation constantly.
Spiritually blind...yes.
And, since you can not find such authority in WRITING, anywhere, you obviously support the “Oral Tradition” in some ways, even though you are too stubborn to admit it.
“They just KNEW” you say? How did they know, and who told them, and how were they told, and how did they pass that knowledge down through the ages?
ORAL TRADITION!
Give up!
The words used to describe what is translated as “scriptures” was Tanakh.
“You have to understand that the canon was not the result of a series of contests involving church politics. The canon is rather the separation that came about because of the intuitive insight of Christian believers. They could hear the Good Shepherd in the Gospel of John; they could hear it only muffled and distorted way in the Gospel of Thomas mixed in with a lot of other things.
“When the pronouncement was made about the canon, it merely ratified what the general sensitivity of the church had already determined. You see, the canon is a list of authoritative books more than it is an authoritative list of books. These documents didn’t derive their authority from being selected; each one was authoritative before anyone gathered them together. The early church merely listened and sensed that these were authoritative accounts.
“For somebody now to say that the canon emerged only after councils and synods made these pronouncements would be like saying, ‘Let’s get several academies of musicians to make a pronouncement that the music of Bach and Beethoven is wonderful.’ I would say, ‘Thank you for nothing! We knew it because of sensitivity to what is good music and what is not. The same with the canon.” Dr. Bruce M. Metzger, Ph.D.
You are wrong but, even if were correct, The process you just described IS ORAL TRADITION!
Unwritten agreement!
Look at Johann Eck. He was a German Catholic theologian who was a staunch opponent of Luther and he was also a anti-Semite.
Luther was just a man, but his motives were sincere. Hubbard wanted to start a cult to make money.
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