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To: metmom

As dated as St. Ignatius?

>>The only reason your reject St. Ignatius is if his teachings are authentic it means you belong to a false religion.

The Protestant scholarship attempting to debunk his works rely on several logical fallacies such as the argument from silence and the argument from ignorance. Scholars, I might add, have used the same arguments in an effort to debunk and debase the canonical scriptures.

My point about Warfield is he lived in the 19th century and a lot has been discovered since his day that alters the way even orthodox Biblical scholars view the canon.

The Muratorian fragment, which dates from around A.D. 170 lists the books considered scriptural, which omits Revelation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muratorian_fragment
http://www.ntcanon.org/Muratorian_Canon.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_New_Testament_canon

The fact is there wasn’t a universally accepted New Testament canon for some 300 years, and the Church was decentralized and conciliar like the Orthodox Church is today.

Rome held a certain primacy, but the Pope was NOT a monarch.


1,947 posted on 12/01/2011 9:02:36 PM PST by rzman21
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To: rzman21

You are just batting a thousand today with your humor.........


1,955 posted on 12/01/2011 9:22:34 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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