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So, you are saying that since what Jesus taught verbally was not written and copied verbatim, there are errors in the various Scriptural translations--that a certain amount of truth is lost?
Bad scriptural cross reference . . . not even the same context . . .
I don't agree, sis. Sometimes on the basketball team, your own team-mates step on your foot or elbow you.
No . . . I am saying that the letters and Gospels and such were inspired by the Spirit to the authors that penned them . . . not one scripture asserts that the copies of the originals would be carried along by the Spirit in the same way . . . the inspiration (in the sense of inerrancy/infallability) does not carry over to the hundreds of thousands of people who choose to pick up a pen (or quill, or whatever) and ink.
So the Apostles are the foundation of Christ? Oooo . . . that is dangerous.
No Apostle in Acts 9 . . . no laying on of hands in Acts 10 . . .
Boy, that's a pretty strong statement! So, what about those who argue "transubstantionation" as opposed to the Orthodox view of "consubstantiation?"
What is "true" and what is "THE Truth" are two different issues.
Luther didn't really want to split . . . but people don't ike to give up power or staid habits that they are convinced are right.So inventing a new church was better?
First, I just want to thank you for taking the time to write out a sincere, thoughtful, and genuine response!
I believe it has effect, it is certainly a means of grace . . . but I see no warrant in the texts to assert that there is a supernatural changing of the consecrated bread into the literal body of Christ . . . the Apostles didn't gag when they ate at the table . . . something surely one would have done had it changed in his mouth.
And, I've told them before, my sister alone in a dark jail cell and a bible beckoning her, inspired her to seek answers and find God--and she has never looked back . . .
First, I just want to thank you for taking the time to write out a sincere, thoughtful, and genuine response!
Though, you and I will disagree on many things I do appreciate non-judgmental honesty.
My point is this, we would not have been warned against "false Gospels" if God did not expect us to be able to recognize a false Gospel. Would could not do that if we did not have some type of tool, or measure as someone else defined "canon" for us, to check what we are taught against. That tool is Scripture, and if God did not expect that the laity could read Scripture and then identify if what was being taught was a true Gospel, He would not have commanded that directions.
Why do we have teachers in schools when we have textbooks to tell us what to do? I'll say it again, nobody denies the "teaching authority" of the church.
