The problem with Scripture-only is that you are missing the primary teachings of Christ. Jesus taught orally, and so did the early Church. Paul is the first of the NT writings that we know of, only an early draft of Matthew might have preceded it.
Are you saying that the words of Jesus aren't in the Scriptures? Can you supply any documentation of Jesus' words that don't appear in the Scriptures? I think not!
Me: "Not being a member of the "Reformed churches" that you refer to, we stick to what is revealed by God through the writings of Christ's inspired writers of the Bible."
While missing the teachings of the Lord himself.
See my words above!
Me: "The assembly I affiliate with follows the lead of the Apostles as they taught everything that Jesus told them to. We do not add nor subtract from what is written, period."
Negative. You do not follow the Didache, for instance. I will assume that you do not have the Deutercanonicals in your Bibles either.
Negative to you're negative! We read and study the Didache and the other Apocrypha writings, along with the whole host of psuedeopigrapha writings, and most assuredly do not base any of our teachings on them. They do contain some worthwhile things, but overall, nothing to add to what the Scriptures have to say: but they do contradict much of what the Scriptures have to tell us.
Me: "Thanks for the suggestion. That's exactly what we did, and we don't only read it two times, but as often as we are led by the spirit to do."
I'd suggest putting aside the Jack Daniels and reading it sober. Paul clearly outlines the growing hierarchy of the Church under himself; and so does the rest of the NT.
You're sarcasm is out of order: it only reveals to me the attitude you seem to have against Christians who beleive and practice what is taught in the Scriptures inspired by God Himself. Yes, Paul does tell us how the church should be set up, which the RCC doesn't listen to very well. Compare what Paul says about the leadership versus what the RCC has set up!
Me: "And, pray tell, just what are those "heresies" you think we favour? I'd like to know what they are!"
The first is subordinationalism, as expressly outlined in the letters of Dickenson that you have copiously posted. After seeing that, I simply will write off whatever it is that a failed Catholic has fallen into, as so many have.
Really, you think that I'm in "subjectation to control" and or have "reliance on others" to say what I say in the articles posted on my web site? Ridiculous to the extreme. My writings are my writing, not led or controled by anyone else, especially a "hierarchy" of the assembly of Christians that I'm affiliated with.
I challenge you to rebuke any of the articles I wrote. If you do a good job, maybe I'd even post your rebuke on my web site so that others may see how a RCC member responds. All I ask is that you prove your accusations from the Word of God as found written in the books of the Bible. However, I don't hold out any hope that you would be capable of doing so. On the other hand, if you would like to try, let me give you one to make your attempt. Try THIS ONE if you can. Good luck.
You mean like this work?
“The Writing of the Holy Apostle Thomas Concerning the Childhood of the Lord. or The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
1. I Thomas the Israelite have deemed it necessary to make known to all the brethren of the heathen the great things which our Lord Jesus Christ did in His childhood, when He dwelt in the body in the city of Nazareth, going in the fifth year of His age.
2. On one of the days, there being a rainstorm, He went out of the house where His mother was, and played on the ground where the waters were flowing. And He made pools, and brought in the waters, and the pools were filled with water. Then He says: It is my will that you become clear and excellent waters. And they became so directly. And a certain boy, the son of Annas the scribe, came past, and with a willow branch which he was carrying threw down the pools, and the water flowed out. And Jesus turning, said to him: O impious and wicked, how have the pools wronged thee, that thou hast emptied them? Thou shall not go on thy way, and thou shalt be dried up like the branch which thou art carrying. And as he went along, in a short time he fell down and died. And when the children that were playing with him saw this, they wondered, and went away and told the father of the dead boy. And he ran and found his child dead, and he went away and reproached Joseph.”
Some just weren't satisfied with what was actually in the Scriptures.
I have no interest in rebuking any of your writings. Your website shows a failed Catholic kinda wandering along out there with a moderate form of mild Christianity. Your writings are based upon a firm misconception that came to fruition during the Reformation - that one may interpret Scripture as one chooses. We’ve seen churches come and churches go during 2 millennia of Christianity. The Reformation started with a bang and it’s finishing up with a whimper. Most churches of men do.