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To: CynicalBear
"ROFL!"

If you don't understand how the Magisterium functions you should not comment. If you knew Scripture you would already know it functions today as it always has:

"The apostles and the elders met together to consider this matter. After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “My brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that I should be the one through whom the Gentiles would hear the message of the good news and become believers. And God, who knows the human heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us; " Acts 15:6-8.

Peace be with you

1,178 posted on 06/04/2013 5:21:51 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a book, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law
JCB claimed that something was missing by NOT posting the rest of a passage earlier.


Here is some MORE of Acts, chapter 15, that you did not post:

ACTS 15:22-31
The Council’s Letter to Gentile Believers
 22 Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers. 23 With them they sent the following letter:

   The apostles and elders, your brothers,

   To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:

   Greetings.

 24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. 25 So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul— 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. 28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.

   Farewell.

 30 So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter. 31 The people read it and were glad for its encouraging message.


1,211 posted on 06/04/2013 6:48:19 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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