AJB4
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The Bible says that it is "profitable":
2 Timothy 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
Profitable means:
1. Yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
2. Beneficial or useful.
The original Greek word used in that passage was ōphelimos, which means:
helpful or serviceable, that is, advantageous.
Check this if you don't believe me.
Going on, let's check out the rest of the verse.
2 Timothy 3:17 - That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Now, put two and two together, and it's not difficult to see, that the Bible says that it is beneficial, helpful, and advantageous to making a man perfect, but doesn't make a man perfect by itself.
It's interesting to note also, that in Jesus' time, and even just coming out of the first century, a lot of churches would have had no scripture, or at the very most, few scriptures scraped together from all over the place. Thus, they would have relied on much more than just the scriptures to keeping the church alive (things such as oral tradition and the early church fathers, who were directly taught by the Apostles themselves). The Bible also says many times that not everything that Jesus and the Apostles did was written in it (2 John 1:12, 3 John 1:13-14, John 21:25, John 20:30).
So, one could come the conclusion that Jesus did, indeed make Peter pope. Just because it is outside the scope of scripture (which admits that not everything Jesus did is written in it), it doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
NOTE: I am not Catholic, though am almost on the verge of becoming Greek Orthodox, which is similar.
2 Timothy 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
Profitable means:
1. Yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
2. Beneficial or useful.
The original Greek word used in that passage was ōphelimos, which means:
helpful or serviceable, that is, advantageous.
Check this if you don't believe me.
Going on, let's check out the rest of the verse.
2 Timothy 3:17 - That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Now, put two and two together, and it's not difficult to see, that the Bible says that it is beneficial, helpful, and advantageous to making a man perfect, but doesn't make a man perfect by itself.
It's interesting to note also, that in Jesus' time, and even just coming out of the first century, a lot of churches would have had no scripture, or at the very most, few scriptures scraped together from all over the place. Thus, they would have relied on much more than just the scriptures to keeping the church alive (things such as oral tradition and the early church fathers, who were directly taught by the Apostles themselves). The Bible also says many times that not everything that Jesus and the Apostles did was written in it (2 John 1:12, 3 John 1:13-14, John 21:25, John 20:30).
So, one could come the conclusion that Jesus did, indeed make Peter pope. Just because it is outside the scope of scripture (which admits that not everything Jesus did is written in it), it doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
NOTE: I am not Catholic, though am almost on the verge of becoming Greek Orthodox, which is similar.
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