What a preposterous statement. First of all because something that Jesus did was not recorded in scripture surely wouldn’t indicate that what He did was not right. It does stand to reason that if the Holy Spirit saw fit to not include it in scripture He chose not to reveal it to us for a reason. Second, perhaps you would like to prove to us something that Jesus did that wasn’t recorded in scripture. Perhaps Catholics have some provable source other than hearsay?
CynicalBear: "What a preposterous statement. First of all because something that Jesus did was not recorded in scripture surely wouldn’t indicate that what He did was not right. It does stand to reason that if the Holy Spirit saw fit to not include it in scripture He chose not to reveal it to us for a reason. Second, perhaps you would like to prove to us something that Jesus did that wasn’t recorded in scripture. Perhaps Catholics have some provable source other than hearsay?"
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CynicalBear, that is exactly my point!
According to John 20:30-31, Jesus did lots of other things that were NOT recorded in the scriptures.
My guess would be that ALL Christians believe (on faith) that the things He said and did that were NOT recorded in the scriptures were, nevertheless, both right and truthful.
That is directly contrary to your false claim in your post #246 that "Only scripture is right".
Those things Jesus did that were NOT recorded in scripture were right too, so your claim that "Only scripture is right" is obviously false.
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Your second claim is shown here:
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Second, perhaps you would like to prove to us something that Jesus did that wasn’t recorded in scripture. Perhaps Catholics have some provable source other than hearsay?
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Nobody knows what those other things were, we only know that Jesus DID other things, based on the testimony of St. John in his gospel at John 20:30-31.
We don't know what things Jesus did that were not recorded in the Bible, we only know that He did those things, based on our faith and our confidence in the veracity of St. John's words in his gospel.
We take it on faith that those things WERE most certainly "right", even though they were NOT recorded in scripture, and we do not know what those other thing He did were.
That proves that some other things NOT recorded in scripture are right too, contrary to your false statement that "Only scripture is right".
why would you call word of mouth, which ALL early Christianity was, hearsay??? that's tha way it was for many years....books are relatively new you know and while there were probably letters and such, there weren't very many and not all the apostles had copies of them....