Very true, but if you care to be the one to tell him what he said that he didn't make us privy to, go ahead and do so, but I am a safety man, I'll take my chances on believing only the recorded words that he left us through his apostles, for our instruction and edification.
2 Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: V-17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (^g^) JH
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JH: Very true, but if you care to be the one to tell him what he said that he didn't make us privy to, go ahead and do so, but I am a safety man, I'll take my chances on believing only the recorded words that he left us through his apostles, for our instruction and edification.
I believe that God is not limited in the ways in which He can record the teaching of His Word. I believe that the Holy Spirit's continual teaching of the faith revealed once and for all time is recorded in the living Church.
"The Holy Spirit is personally the New Creation at work in the world. He is the presence of God-with-us, "joined to our spirit" (Rom 8:16). Without Him, God is far off, Christ is in the past, the gospel is a dead letter, the Church is only an organization, authority is domination, mission is propaganda, worship is a mere mouthing of words, and Christian action is a slave morality.
"But with Him, and in indispensible symphony with Him, the cosmos is raised up and groans with the birth pains of the kingdom; man struggles against the "flesh," Christ is raised, the gospel becomes the power of life, the Church offers communion with the Trinity, authority becomes a liberating service, mission becomes a pentecost, the liturgy is lived as both a memorial and an anticipation, and human action is deified.""
- Patriarch Ignatius IV, "The Resurrection and Modern Man"
Ignatius is the current Patriarch of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.