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Recent content by Anthony70

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    Is there something wrong about "The Shepherd of Hermas"?

    Oh my goodness the conspiracy gets deeper...
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    Is there something wrong about "The Shepherd of Hermas"?

    The Shepherd of Hermas is a very good book which I believe was written by the Hermas mentioned in the book of Romans. From what I can tell there is nothing heretical in the Shepherd and some Church Fathers such as St. Athanasius, St. Jerome, and St. Irenaeus as well as some Early Church Writers...
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    Is there something wrong about "The Shepherd of Hermas"?

    Romans 16:14 “Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.” Oh my gosh look at all these pagan “gods” in muh Bible. The papacy must have added this verse in to support worshiping the Roman pantheon. Well time to cut this verse out of my “revised...
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    Luther’s preface to the Apocrypha

    Well that’s a shame that Luther’s prefaces to the Apocrypha is not not available on the web.
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    Luther’s preface to the Apocrypha

    I am very interested in Martin Luther and his works and have found his prefaces to the Old and New Testaments interesting but I can not find his prefaces to the Apocrypha anywhere. Does anyone know where I can find them?
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    Is there Biblical support for praying to the Saints?

    I just found this Luke 16:27-28 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. So the rich man in hades prays to Abraham to grant him a...
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    Are there Inspired Apocryphal books?

    Do you think that possibly if the Eastern Churches would have printed Bibles first that the Bible would have these books in it? Also are these books considered inspired?
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    Are there Inspired Apocryphal books?

    I don’t believe any Church considers it part of Scripture. Unless I don’t have a full understanding of what scripture means in the Eastern Churches?
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    Is there Biblical support for praying to the Saints?

    I believe it would be called talking. If I talked to you in person does that mean I am praying to you?
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    Is there Biblical support for praying to the Saints?

    Prayer is when you give thanks or make a request to a higher power like God. Jeremiah and Onias came to Judas Maccabeus in a dream. Judas did not pray to them, they came to him.
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    Are there Inspired Apocryphal books?

    One non-canon book I personally find really strange how it did not make it in the canon is the Shepherd of Hermas. Even when almost every Church Father supported it, it still didn’t make it in.
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    Is there Biblical support for praying to the Saints?

    Well yes they came to him in a dream but he didn’t pray to them.
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    Is there Biblical support for praying to the Saints?

    There is prayers for the dead in 2 Maccabees but nothing I know of about prayers to saints.
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    Is there Biblical support for praying to the Saints?

    Prayers to the Saints seems to be a thing you solely accept based on tradition which doesn’t mean that it’s not true but the Bible doesn’t seem to say anything for or against it. I myself am not sure of it’s good to do so I don’t do it.