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To: HarleyD; Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis; Cronos; annalex; jo kus
should be noted the very high regards Irenaeus had for the infallibility of the scriptures, the belief that God is omniscience and omnipotent, and the very low regards he placed upon man's ability to interpret the holy scriptures

And we don't? Church Tradition (not tradition of men) is gorunded in Scripture. What the Church teaches can not be in conflict with the Scripture. What does the Church teach that is scripturally untrue or unsound? Do you find Holy Trinity or Christ's duality fully defined in the Bible? Of course not! For if they were, we wouldn't have had Nestroians and Arians, and Sabellians, and so on, who confused these truths.

The interpretation of the Scripture is not everyone's individual prerogative. There is only one Truth and it is not relative. The early Church recognized that and the Church today realizes that. We simply can't have billions of Bible readers, each claiming a different version of the Truth.

your interpretations come from a bunch of old men who sit around and say, "Yep that's what we think it means."

I feel so sorry for you. I do. You must have a terrible need to be important, so you achieve that sense of importance by denigrating people whom you have never bothered to read, for if you have, you would have never made such a statement. But, ignorance is bliss, as they say.

2,076 posted on 01/28/2006 4:58:08 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis; Cronos; annalex; jo kus
And we don't? Church Tradition (not tradition of men) is gorunded in Scripture. What the Church teaches can not be in conflict with the Scripture.

Shall I direct you to the post on another thread where someone makes the claim that the Catholics WROTE the scriptures. That's a hoot.

2,088 posted on 01/28/2006 1:26:11 PM PST by HarleyD (Man's steps are ordained by the LORD, How then can man understand his way? - Pro 20:24)
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