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To: NYer
I gave you scripture references.

We have a triune God, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

It is the Holy Spirit that inspired the writers of the New Testament in what words to record.

So your question is kind of a non sequitur.

This subject is finished, if it isn't clear to you now it never will be.

I'm not going argue against all the dogma that has been hashed out already ad infinitum .

Scripture based Christians believe and get their information and inspiration from a source denied as Truth by the Catholic church. No problem...for me.

476 posted on 03/03/2013 12:01:52 PM PST by Syncro ("So?" - Andrew Breitbart The King of All Media (RIP Feb 1, 1969 – Mar 1, 2012)
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To: Syncro
It is the Holy Spirit that inspired the writers of the New Testament in what words to record.

No argument there whatsoever. You cited 2 Timothy 3:16–17 where Paul is laying down a guideline for Timothy to make use of Scripture and tradition in his ministry as a bishop. In 2 Tim. 3:14, Timothy is initially exhorted to hold to the oral teachings—the traditions—that he received from the apostle Paul. This echoes Paul’s reminder of the value of oral tradition in 1:13–14, "Follow the pattern of the sound words which you haveheard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us" (RSV), and ". . . what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also" (2:2).

As one who believes scripture to be inspired, then you also accept Paul's admonition to follow oral tradition.

477 posted on 03/03/2013 12:39:31 PM PST by NYer (“Beware the man of a single book.” - St. Thomas Aquinas)
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