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To: HiTech RedNeck
You denied the perfection of the Holy Spirit and therefore the Trinity along with flatly contradicting the words of Christ Himself in one, single, comment.

Don't waste your breath telling me or anyone else what they need to get through their skull to feed your pretense of your being Christian in any way, shape, or form.

48 posted on 10/18/2016 8:44:59 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Rashputin; HiTech RedNeck
You denied the perfection of the Holy Spirit and therefore the Trinity along with flatly contradicting the words of Christ Himself in one, single, comment.

No, he did not do that. You, however, falsely assert repeatedly that the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books are part of Divinely-inspired Scripture and always have been.

They have NOT always been - the Jews, unto whom were given the Oracles of God - never recognized or included them with the other Scriptures;

they were NOT considered Holy Spirit inspired even by the early Christians though some saw them as edifying but not a source of doctrine. Jerome, in the fourth century translated them into Latin (Vulgate) along with the other universally recognized books but separated them;

Luther included them in his German translation in the same way as Jerome did as also did the early King James Version;

They were NOT always recognized as part of the canon and were only "officially" declared so by the Roman Catholic church at the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century;

The Greek translation called the Septuagint (200 b.c.)contained them as it did several other books that NO ONE included in their canon;

They never claim to BE from the Lord - in fact, they acknowledge that there were NO prophets at the time they were written;

They contain many errors, superstitions, false claims and other problems that disqualified them as being of Divine origin and people knew that. Even at Trent, there was disagreement over their inclusion and recognition AS canon and the declaration was not unanimous.

Finally, ascribing the problem plagued Apocrypha as having a Holy Spirit origin is IN FACT denying the perfection of the Holy Spirit and therefore the Trinity along with flatly contradicting the words of Christ Himself. Jesus said the word of God will stand forever, that it is perfect, it is truthful, it has authority and will never fail - all things your extra books flunk. But, of course, you already know all this because it's been explained dozens of times to you. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good insult.

Being a genuine Christian is about so much more than what one thinks about the canon of Scripture. To pretend otherwise is to miss the message of Jesus Christ and what he has done for us.

55 posted on 10/18/2016 10:27:14 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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