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To: Salvation
"Are you saying that you would rather believe in heresies than the truth?"

Did I say that? No. I'm saying I believe more in the plain truths of the Bible than 100 of these self important councils. The Word of God trumps the councils and papal edicts any day of the week.

8 posted on 10/29/2012 3:41:52 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Willie Stark for president.)
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To: BipolarBob; NYer; All
FYI -- many of these councils decided on the heresies of people of that day and how they were interpreting the Bible.

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MAJOR CHURCH COUNCILS - The Council Of Chalcedon - 451 A.D.

9 posted on 10/29/2012 4:07:50 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: BipolarBob
The Word of God trumps the councils and papal edicts any day of the week.

Everyone who worships their own, Most High and Holy Self says their own personal interpretation of Scripture is the Word of God.

Therefore, everyone is right, no one is wrong, and no one can be wrong, because there is no authority other than personal authority.

Like Eve, all such folks see nothing wrong with modifying His Word here and there, interpreting things to fit their personal preconceptions, or even throwing portions of the Scripture into the trash, in order to rationalize whatever they want to do. Once people decide their personal authority trumps Scripture every time by granting themselves the final word in all matters of interpretation, they're at the very least on the fast track to Self Worship if they're not already there.

For example, prior to 1931, every single Protestant group taught that contraception was a sin. After 1931, they all reversed themselves and to this day teach that there's nothing wrong with contraception, much less that it's a sin.

Were all Protestants basing what they believe on Scripture as they were led by the Holy Spirit prior to 1931 and have now gone astray, or were they all wrong prior to 1931 but are now in agreement with Scripture and the Holy Spirit?

Or do the majority of history scholars believe that the Holy Spirit occasionally reverses what it is Truth the same way Mooze Lames say All Uugh does?

Here's a little history tidbit. In March of 1931, speaking to Catholics with regard to all Protestant groups, Bishop Fulton J Seen said, "Since a week ago last Saturday, we can no longer expect them to defend the law of God. These sects will work out the logic of their ways and in fifty or a hundred years there will be only the Church and paganism. We'll be left to fight the battle alone and we will.

It's about eight years since then and only The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Jesus Christ Himself founded is still standing against paganism and the mass murder of infants with contraceptives.

He was right, no one can any longer count on folks who wake up one morning and teach the exact opposite of what they said was based on Scripture and the Holy Spirit the day before. Unfortunately for those who have fallen prey to the family of heresies Wycliffe and Luther spread, the Bible teaches that the Church is the rightful interpreter of Scripture which means that those who each interpret it for themselves are acting in direct opposition to the Word of God.

TTFN

13 posted on 10/29/2012 5:35:08 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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