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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; Iscool
Jesus is quoted directly in the Gospels. Does that constitute a significant distinction to you?

And?

OK, let me see if I have this right.

Catholics believe that Jesus is God. Right?

Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit is God. Right?

Then what makes the words of Jesus more significant than the words of the Holy Spirit?

God is God, is He not? Would God the Holy Spirit contradict anything said by God the Son? Is the Holy Spirit less important than the Son?

Luke 4:1-2 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil.

Luke 4:14-15 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

Jesus - full of the Holy Spirit. Went about teaching.

Whose words was He speaking?

1,508 posted on 07/21/2013 5:24:55 AM PDT by metmom (rFor freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
Jesus is quoted directly in the Gospels. Does that constitute a significant distinction to you?

And?

Does that constitute a significant distinction to you?

That's what I meant.

If that's unclear, let me try it another way.

The Gospels are accounts of Jesus' life and ministry. The Epistles are letters, explicating Jesus' teachings and Church doctrine.

Do you see the distinction? Yet both the Gospels and Epistles constitute Sacred Scripture.

Similarly, the deuterocanonical (literally, "second canon") books are distinct from the protocanonical books of the Bible, yet both canons constitute Sacred Scripture.

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And while I have you, what person or group of persons had, or has, the authority to infallibly determine what books constitute Sacred Scripture?

You?

Luther?

Who?

Why won't any Protestants answer?

It's a simple question.

1,509 posted on 07/21/2013 5:36:17 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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