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To: editor-surveyor

So which of the Apostolic letters do you accept? Any? You’ll have to toss out the ones where St. Paul calls himself the “Father in Christ” of the recipients, all the ones that use the word episcopos, and the Apocalypse of St. John, which as I noted was address to seven bishops.

Honestly you’re the sort of person that makes me adopt Tertullian’s attitude that those outside the Church have no right to appeal to the Church’s books.


189 posted on 12/12/2014 11:17:04 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David
You're reading things into Paul's words that aren't there.

Peter had comments for those such as yourself:

2Peter 3:

[15] And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
[16] As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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190 posted on 12/12/2014 11:26:03 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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