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To: 1000 silverlings; Dr. Eckleburg
I will respond to your four posts here.

I agree with all of the things you said.

However, none of them address the question I asked, and that is "What written command of the OT gives the Apostles the power to do away with circumcision"? I am Catholic, of course I agree that Christ brought about a new Covenant, gave the Apostles the power to bind and loosen, etc...

But if the first Christians believed in SOLA SCRIPTURA, then the actions of the Apostles in Acts 15 clearly goes against this "man-made rule". There is nothing in the Old Testament that gives men the power to overrule God's "everlasting" Covenant. Yet, men in 47 AD got together and did precisely that...

I know WHY! But tell me about how Sola Scriptura fits in there.

Please address the question, if you can.

Regards

5,478 posted on 05/03/2006 11:16:05 AM PDT by jo kus (I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart...Psalm 119:32)
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To: jo kus
Jeremiah 31:31

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

31:32

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

31:33

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Ezekiel 11:19

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

2Co 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

5,487 posted on 05/03/2006 12:54:20 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings
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To: jo kus
men the power to overrule God's "everlasting" Covenant. Yet, men in 47 AD got together and did precisely that...

No they didn't. As God says, the Jews broke the covenant, rendering it null and void. He then established a new one, by Jesus's blood.

5,488 posted on 05/03/2006 1:02:22 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings
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