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To: ealgeone

None that I am aware of, but by the time we had determined what was in and what was out of the NT, it had been going on for about 200 years...about as long as the veneration of relics had been going on.


252 posted on 04/16/2016 2:53:11 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen and you, O death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis; Elsie
None that I am aware of, but by the time we had determined what was in and what was out of the NT, it had been going on for about 200 years...about as long as the veneration of relics had been going on. The Word disagrees with you and catholicism.

4Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. 5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me Exodus 20:4-5 Douay-Rheims

6Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved. 7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO PLAY.” 1 Corinthians 10:6-7

22Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Romans 1:22-23

Elsie has a wide range of pictures with catholics kneeling before images of catholic mary.

256 posted on 04/16/2016 3:19:54 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Kolokotronis
None that I am aware of, but by the time we had determined what was in and what was out of the NT, it had been going on for about 200 years...about as long as the veneration of relics had been going on.

Good thing uyou're not giving me instructions as to how to find the supermarket, let alone the way to Heaven. It is God through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit working through the prophets that wrote the Bible, and preserved infallible scripture through the Levites under the Old Covenant; and by means of the local churches, each of which was the pillar and ground of truth, whose Head is the Lord Jesus Christ. Of it, the government-backed statist church did pass it on, but not without twisting the contents here and there to fit their Alexandrian doctrinal concepts.

Not so for the Byzantine/Majority Textform, which survived the years without having to be resynthesized like your present eclectic Greek NT.

266 posted on 04/16/2016 4:11:30 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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