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To: AlguyA
So do you believe Jesus already knew the future, and how many of the Protestants would put a book on the same level as Him, and some would prefer simply reading about Him over actually worshiping Him, and their leaders would be petitioned to equate reading about Him to actually knowing Him?

Could that explain why there doesn't seem to be even one time that Jesus demands a book be written?

Not that he holds any animosity toward the Bible, because it certainly doesn't demand the position it was put in, but it seems Jesus went out of his way not to encourage it, and that there would be nothing that could be pointed to later, saying He promoted it?
Revelation 9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

49,712 posted on 04/29/2003 3:47:15 PM PDT by Quester
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To: Quester
Please note the Scripture you cite pertains only to the vision in Revelation and is directed only to the specified seven churchs. Certainly, nowhere does He demand the Gospels be written nor does He suggest the letters from Paul, Peter, etc. be gathered into a book. Frankly, the argument God favors Mary receives far greater Scriptural support(see Luke) than does your cite from Revelations provide support for the creation of the canon.
49,714 posted on 04/29/2003 3:53:08 PM PDT by AlguyA
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