“Under the inspiration of God, yes, not of the Scriptures.”
ALL Scripture, including Paul’s writings, comes from direct inspiration from God. The commands are from God. The criteria are from God.
“As I said before, there is not command in Scripture given to the Apostles. They did this exercising the authority given to them by Jesus.”
No, they did it under the direct inspiration of God. There is no indication they just made it up and then God said, “Hey! Good idea! I like that, let’s record it as if I said it!”
There is nothing to say the church took it on itself to do this. It is an argument from silence, against the inspiration of Scripture directly from God.
Best.
Agreed, but Acts is recording the actions of the apostles. Those actions were inspired prior to being recorded in Scriptures.
No, they did it under the direct inspiration of God. There is no indication they just made it up and then God said, “Hey! Good idea! I like that, let’s record it as if I said it!”
No argument. But my point is that this inspiration occurred prior to being recorded in Scriptures. God continues to move the church.
There is nothing to say the church took it on itself to do this. It is an argument from silence, against the inspiration of Scripture directly from God.
I think you have what happened backwards. God inspired the Apostles to act. Afterwards, God inspired Luke to record these acts. The authority of these acts, however, existed prior to them being recorded in Scripture.