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You definitely have come up with a very interesting point, and, even more amazing, one that I don't recall seeing on here before. Good work.

Can you imagine the "sola scriptura" Bereans rejecting the Gospel of Matthew cause it distorts the Hebrew Bible?

"You definitely have come up with a very interesting point, and, even more amazing, one that I don't recall seeing on here before. Good work.

Can you imagine the "sola scriptura" Bereans rejecting the Gospel of Matthew cause it distorts the Hebrew Bible?

Thanks. Although I must say I had hoped my thoughts might occassion at least a bit of commentary from the Protestant side. I mean, here we have an example where if, a)as Protestants urge, we are to test theology against literal scripture as they argue the Bereans did and b) the Bereans were to use the scripture Protestants argue is the proper scripture to use (i.e., the 'purer' Palestinian canon) then we are left with the inescapable conclusion that c) the good Bereans from whom they draw their example would be forced to reject the gospel of Matthew.

Yet no one seems interested in this topic.

Further, no Protestant has yet addressed my invitation to consider Havoc's rather (at least to me) novel proposition that John the Baptist was Elijah literally reincarnated. Havoc assures us he only uses God's Word and is guided in his reading of God's Word solely by the Holy Spirit -in other words, that he is the archetypical Protestant. Using this method, he has determined that John the Baptist is Elijah in a 'new body.' Frankly, I find the silence of Protestants on this point somewhat surprising. All I would like to know is if they agree with Havoc.