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To: sr4402
Christ is the Authority that ordained the Scriptures be written. "All Scripture is inspired by God" 2 Timothy 3:16.

Have I said otherwise? Again, this is a discussion of Sola Scriptura... the Bible Alone. Your verse here speaks the truth, as does all Scripture... what it doesn't say is that the Apostles were commissioned to write additional Scripture for the Church to follow. Using your doctrine of Sola Scriptura, I would like to see this commission. As I pointed out in an earlier post, I can surely show you where they brought preaching, instruction, their own testimony, and Tradition (2 Thess 2:15, 2 Tim 2:2, Rom 10:17, 1 Pet 1:25, 1 Cor 11:2, Acts 2:42, Acts 20:35, John 21:25)... but brand new Scriptures that all were to follow? Good luck with that.

But you see the problem is that Tradition has already tried to overwrite the Scriptures saying that "James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?" Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:2-3 are not Mary's sons.

No, the Church has endeavored to explain what isn't as readily apparent to us today as it was in the days immediately after Christ's Ascension. In this case, there isn't a separate word in Aramaic for brother, stepbrother, and cousin. These men were "brethren", yes, but not additional sons of Mary. Were they His biological brothers, surely Our Lord would have not commended His Mother to the household of St John at His Death on the Cross. These two situations are completely contradictory in Protestant interpretation... because you reject the authority of the Church and trust to your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5).

Brethren of the Lord.

85 posted on 07/14/2011 9:40:18 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: pgyanke
In Matthew 13:55 the talk is by the Jewish Crowd. They are not Catholics and were trying to understand who Jesus was by identifying him with his brothers.

Look at the context, not with a pretext.

The Lord Jesus Christs own words should have been sufficient as well as what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Timothy 3:16, but I see that it is not for you.

Jesus said "My sheep hear my voice, and the voice of another they will not follow" (John). How can you hear the Savior's voice if you cannot hear it in the Scriptures and say it has no authority??

How can you hear Him?? Do you really love Him?? How will you memorize the Scriptures and let the Holy Spirit teach you if you already have a pretext and an overwriting pattern?

No, the attack upon Sola Scriptura, is a Sophistry attack on Christ and His ordained Word (the Bible). It is the same as all the other attacks on the Bible from the same source who said:

"Indeed, Hath God said..."

86 posted on 07/14/2011 9:52:30 AM PDT by sr4402
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