“THERE WAS NO BIBLE WHEN PAUL SPOKE THOSE WORDS!”
The above is a fallacious argument. Or do you deny there were written Holy Scriptures in the 1st century? What scroll did Jesus pick up and read in Luke 4? Why did Peter call Paul’s works scripture? So the apostles had keys but nothing to write with? What was written on the books and parchment Paul commands to be taken to him along with his cloak?
We should probably use the word “Sacred Scripture” since EVERYTHING written was Scripture at that point in time, or chiseled in rock or scratched on metal plates.
Yes, Paul wrote letters, but it is the original Apostles works were not all reduced to writing for a very long time after their deaths.
Please understand, the BIBLE is the collected, recognized, Cannon which was NOT decided and compiled in one “book” form until LONG after the resurrection.
Yes there were separate pieces of very perishable, hand crafted, hand written SACRED Scripture. However:
It was RARE in the Early Church for ANYONE to come in contact with more than one Book of the New Testament.
Even in the Dark Ages, it was so expensive and time consuming to actually produce a Bible that they became priceless works of Art.
Think, my Protestant friends. Some of you seem to think they went to Office Max and copied out all the Books from the very beginning and carried them all around, bound together.
Of course, I am exaggerating, but the Early Church had rivalries between those who traced their linage to a particular Apostle or Church Father precisely BECAUSE the Books of the NT were NOT bound in one volume for centuries.
Logic, logic, logic Please.
What Paul said in your quote is undeniably SCRIPTURE NOW.
How ever, how could it have been “Scripture” the first time it was spoken, before it was written down anywhere?
Many very good Christians never actually SAW a “Bible” in their entire lives.
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