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To: FatherofFive
1) Where did Jesus give instructions that the Christian faith should be based exclusively on a book?

Jesus always appealed to Scripture

2) Where did Jesus tell His apostles to write anything down and compile it into an authoritative book?

Good point. Let's throw out the totality of Scripture.
2Tim 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

3) Where in the New Testament do the apostles tell future generations that the Christian faith will be based solely on a book?

2 Tim 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

4) Where in the Bible do we find an inspired and infallible list of books that should belong in the Bible?

Holy Spirit guided it long before the heretics/Papists forced themselves on Rome.

5 posted on 02/03/2012 4:38:10 PM PST by Gamecock (I am so thankful for [the] active obedience of Christ. No hope without it. JGM)
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To: Gamecock; FatherofFive
You did not answer any of FatherofFive's questions.

1) Jesus' appeals to Scripture were made by way of convincing Torah-studying Jews of who He is, and in His earthly ministry He used "Scripture" (as did the Apostles) to refer only to the Old Covenant Scriptures. In contrast He said "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through Me." The Christian Faith if based on a Person, not on a book.

2) and 3) You argue as if the word "all" meant "only". It does not, nor does the Greek πᾶσα have the double sense of "all" and "only" -- it is correctly translated as "all". Thus your answer is no answer at all, even leaving aside that it is the Holy Apostle Paul writing to Timothy not Our Lord Himself, and FatherofFive asked about Jesus.

4) Again a non-answer. I agree that the Holy Spirit led the Church to correctly select the canon of Scripture, but you deny the process by which the Holy Spirit did this: a series of councils held by the ancient Church, one at Carthage, that because it took place in the Patriarchate of Rome and received a papal assent, the Latins regard as having settled the matter, and the disciplinary session of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (called in the west the Trullan Synod or the Quinsext Council) which accepted the canons of Carthage, including the enumeration of the books of Scriptures, as binding on the whole Church. The same authority which fixed the canon of Scripture -- an Ecumenical Council of the ancient and undivided Church -- also approved the veneration of icons and of relics.

Rather than projecting your modern anti-Papist biases back into the first century, why don't you read the writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers who knew the Apostles to see what the ancient Church was like even before it collected the canon of Scripture, when the Faith was transmitted by personal preaching: the letters of St. Ignatius (the seven genuine ones), the Didache, the (First) Epistle of St. Clement to the Corinthians, and the Martyrdom of Polycarp taken together give a nice picture of the Christian Faith and the life of the Church in the first generation after the Apostles. The promise that the Spirit would lead us into all truth applied as much to the Christians living in those days as it does to us.

7 posted on 02/03/2012 5:11:25 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Gamecock
"Holy Spirit guided it long before the heretics/Papists forced themselves on Rome. "

So you use the Christian canon that encompasses the same Septuagint Christ and the Apostles quote from, not the revised Pharisee canon, right?

10 posted on 02/03/2012 5:42:00 PM PST by Rashputin (Obama stark, raving, mad, and even his security people know it.)
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To: Gamecock
Jesus always appealed to Scripture

No, he didn't. Do you just make things up to support your bias.

Will you concede "He taught as one having authority?"

17 posted on 02/03/2012 7:15:55 PM PST by papertyger
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To: Gamecock
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Profitable or useful does not mean entirely sufficient. Sola scripture fails its on requirement.

29 posted on 02/03/2012 9:40:18 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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