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To: HarleyD; kosta50

"That being said, now would you admit that the book of Timothy contains the Truth of the Church?"

HD, it isn't "the Truth of the Church"; its simply the Truth. Whether or not it has been given to The Church to fully understand and appreciate that Truth right now is another matter entirely. As I have said, all The Church seeks in scripture is the Truth about our theosis in the divine economy of salvation, which, of course, is the only Truth which matters in the end.


3,927 posted on 01/04/2007 3:55:51 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: HarleyD; kosta50

Let me add this thought from +Justin Popovich

"What is truth?" inquired Pilate of the incarnate Truth, wanting to hear with his own ears that which he did not perceive with his eyes, as though it was not the same soul that was hearing through his ears and seeing through his eyes. The God-man Christ is the Truth, not as word, neither as teaching nor as concrete energy, but as a most perfect and eternally living divine-human Hypostasis. It is only as a theanthropic Personality that He is the criterion of truth. It is for this reason that the God-man not only said, "I am the Truth," but also that, "I am the Way" (Jn. 14:6), that is, He is the way to Truth itself, the criterion of Truth itself, the essence of Truth itself. The criterion of Truth is the Truth itself, and the Truth is the God-man Christ. Thus, whatever does not come from Him is not from the Truth. The Truth cannot ontologically exist outside of his divine-human personality."


3,928 posted on 01/04/2007 3:58:33 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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