Posted on 09/11/2023 9:23:22 AM PDT by ebb tide
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Who ya going to believe...your lying eyes and the holy spirit bringing you understanding...or what someone else tells you the bible says? There is of course a role for the church and for teachers but if what they teach goes against the bible they are a false church and false disciples.
By ‘dumb’ do you mean ‘silent’?...................
Nope. It means “stupid”.
Here we go Again...
Sola Scriptura vs Magic cookies.
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Who finally did decide which books were inspired and therefore belonged to the New Testament? Shortly before 400 A. D. a General Council of the Catholic Church, using the infallible authority which Christ had given to His own divine institution, finally decided which books really belonged to the New Testament and which did not. .This is a long time canard of the RCC. There was broad agreement on which books were inspired before the Catholic church made it "official". The idea that nobody knew which books should be canonical before the Roman Catholic church figured that out is absurd.Either the Church at this General Council was infallible, or it was not. If the Church was infallible then, why is it not infallible now? If the Church was not infallible then, in that case the New Testament is not worth the paper it is written on, because internal evidences of authenticity and inspiration are inconclusive and because the work of this Council cannot now be rechecked; this is obvious from reply to next question. .
COMMENT: In view of these historical facts, it is difficult to see how non-Catholics can deny that it was from the (Roman) Catholic Church that they received the New Testament.
So if the pope tells you to jump off a bridge are you going to jump off the bridge?
Yes, that drivel implies that the early "teaching churches" never taught anything wrong.
Too many times though it seems that someone will require you to believe something that’s not even in the Bible. I believe God did intend for his word to be in written form, and there is even one verse that says “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches” (Rev. 1:11).
I thank you for such a thread because there was another thread here on FR recently that contained a disturbing display of antipathy for the Bible and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Ok. Tell me who were those "protesants" before 400 A.D. who agreed with the Catholic church.
What ‘The Lord’ wanted from us, religion-wise, was written into us. That people thought there was/is a need to put that into words and codify it into religious beliefs as the word of God, was/is extraneous.
We are, after all, created in ‘the image of God’, so, we are holy from the beginning, and we do as we are designed to do, which includes right and wrong. We know right from wrong, automatically, without having to consult the bible or any written text on religion.
Yeah. Who needs a Bible - the inspired Word of God - when we have child molesting priests headed up by popes like Francis telling us we don’t need the Bible?
Check the blasphemous “Cult of Mary” thread before casting your stones.
It’s up to 2,292 posts now.
This week’s playground?
Thanks, ebb!
Actually, this discussion is dumb because it is discussion various interpretations of the Bible and obscures the fact that the Hebrew sages were correct: The LORD wrote the Torah and then used it as the template of the world. The End was Determined from the Beginning. God is sovereign.
I’m not dumb nor do I believe in sola scriptura.
It’s funny that none you have addressed the 25 questions.
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