Well teh Bible wasn't formalized, but they did have the Torah and Penteteuch.
great. So you agree that the scripture passage you provided to prove the Bible is the Authority doesnt talk about the bible.
So you reject the NT as being inspired by God?
No. Btw, if you would like, prove to me the Gospel of Matthew is inspired text using just Scripture.
The process of declaring both teh inspired word of God as the Bible was the same!
So the Ancient Israelites used the same process of determining was was from God as the NT canonists? Can you provide proof of this?
Teh writers may not have known that just like the writers of the OT did not know they were writing teh Inspired Word of God- but God did and that is what matters.
So your logic is that Paul didn't know what
he was writing was going to be considered Inspired text so he could have been referring to his own work?
So what do you consider to be the Word of God
In the Beginning was the Word. BTW, you cannot sub Bible in for Word.
The OT was not even the OT at the time of Christ!
so
Neither teh Israelites or the Church had canonized the OT.
by when?
So if you do not believe the bible is authoratative, what Word do yo consider authoratative then?
I believe Christ and follow what he commanded us to do.
Some Scripture to consider:
Mat 18
But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother. And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand. And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican. Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven.
1 Tim 3
These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee shortly. But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God,
the pillar and ground of the truth.
Luke 10
He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.