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To: boatbums
Secondly, it is startling that you imply Catholics and Orthodox only base their doctrines upon the first four books of the New Testament. Should we all just toss out the rest of the Bible? I seem to think our Lord would not be too pleased if we did. The Holy Spirit went to all that trouble for nothing???

Obviously not; yet we must consider Scripture and its source. The Gospels are the quotations of Jesus. Jesus is Lord God Almighty. I am baffled by alleged Christians acting as if (but not overtly confirming) that the words of e.g. Nehemiah or the Chronicler are as important if not more important than the words of Almighty God. I mean, do you really consider Lamentations as important as the Sermon on the Mount?

7,757 posted on 09/30/2010 6:03:06 AM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr
" The Gospels are the quotations of Jesus. Jesus is Lord God Almighty. I am baffled by alleged Christians acting as if (but not overtly confirming) that the words of e.g. Nehemiah or the Chronicler are as important if not more important than the words of Almighty God."

I too am baffled at the gross lack of appreciation for the hierarchy of the revealed Word.

The entire revealed word must be viewed exclusively within the context of the actual Words of Christ Himself and these are found within the Synoptic Gospels. Every other verse must not be looked at as a stand alone revelation, but rather an amplification or clarification on what Christ said.

When viewed in this context the Paulian heresies espoused in this forum leap off of the page and reveal the authors to be something other than Christians.

7,767 posted on 09/30/2010 8:18:45 AM PDT by Natural Law (A lie is a known untruth expressed as truth. A liar is the one who tells it.)
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To: MarkBsnr
..we must consider Scripture and its source. The Gospels are the quotations of Jesus. Jesus is Lord God Almighty. I am baffled by alleged Christians acting as if (but not overtly confirming) that the words of e.g. Nehemiah or the Chronicler are as important if not more important than the words of Almighty God. I mean, do you really consider Lamentations as important as the Sermon on the Mount?

Yes, we most definitely should consider the source. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God" comes to mind. The Gospels are quite a lot more than "just" the quotations of Jesus, if you are familiar with them. And in the same way, the rest of scripture is relevant in many ways to our lives. I think it is a little spurious to try to place "importance" of some "over" others since God has chosen to reveal himself to us in this way and has preserved it from destruction for all these millennium. The only "alleged" Christians I have read that have tried to place preeminence of some scripture over others are the ones who claim their own revealed, extra-biblical documents.

7,885 posted on 09/30/2010 2:14:54 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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