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To: ealgeone
Acts 17:11 Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

WHICH Scriptures? The only written Scripture at the time of Acts was the Old Testament. They were studying what the Church practices today... the New Testament was concealed in the Old and the Old Testament has been revealed by the New. They searched the Old Testament to find the truth of the testimony brought by the Apostles. The Apostles brought their own experience and their teaching authority in building Christ's Church, not Bibles to be memorized.

54 posted on 07/10/2014 9:15:45 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: pgyanke
>Acts 17:11 Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.<

WHICH Scriptures? The only written Scripture at the time of Acts was the Old Testament. They were studying what the Church practices today... the New Testament was concealed in the Old and the Old Testament has been revealed by the New. They searched the Old Testament to find the truth of the testimony brought by the Apostles. The Apostles brought their own experience and their teaching authority in building Christ's Church, not Bibles to be memorized.

On this I have no problem. It's when we go beyond what the Apostles taught and left to us in their writings we start to go off the track.

The point I was making is that we are capable of searching the Scriptures to find their meanings as did the Bereans as noted in Acts. We should all be doing this. The Holy Spirit will be our Helper in this.

64 posted on 07/10/2014 9:26:59 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: pgyanke

And Jesus told the religious leaders that they thought that they would find eternal life in them, the scriptures, but he told them that if they were to search the scriptures that they testify of him, and that they would find eternal life in him.


121 posted on 07/10/2014 11:22:30 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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