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The OT canon was closed before Christ was born...and the New Testament was written and assembled under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit..

By discounting the word of God I mean it has little more revelance that the phone book (kidding here...)

Actually what I meant was you give tradition the same or greater weight than scripture...

We all have "tradition" but most churches take their doctrinal tradition from Scripture..and they look at the inspired scripture to affirm it

You do not have any way to affirm the traditions and non scriptural doctrine you hold.

<> All protestant doctrine, save what they retained when they walked the plank of self-will off the Ark of Salvation, is based upon the oral traditions of the original revolters of the 16th Century.

Folks read into the Bible the oral traditions of Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Melancthon etc and they ignore the painful truth these 16th Century revolters disagreed with one another despite the fact that each was a Bible-believing Christian guided by the Holy Spirit in his Bible study.

I guess we just have to acknowledge the fact the Holy Spirit was feelin impish and led each of these reveolters to conclude different things, based upon their Bible Studies, and that is perfectly fine because there is some larger, numinous "Unity" that superceeds such Doctrinal disunity, I guess

The one constatnt touchstone of Unity is their opposition to the consistent Teaching of ALL 16 Centuries that preceeded these men. I guess the Holy Spiirt was lying to all those Bible-belivers prior to the 16 Century, either that or there were no real Bible believers prior to Luther, I guess

BTW, why no women? I mean, I see no reason why Rnmom doesn't have the same authority to start a church as does the_doc, or Calvin, or Luther, or Zwingli.

Is there any objection to Rnmom starting her own church? <>