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Another incorrect presumtion on your part. This is just your opinion once again. And I bet you got your information straight from the "updated" church history books of the Roman Catholic church....correct?False; there were many years between Christ's establishment of his Church and the first Apostolic writings.
The Apostles and the bishops they appointed were the authorities in the Church during that time.
Nah. Your denomination has no authority except for itself. Is called solo ecclessia. I don't have to pretend anything since I am not the one making the wild, unsupported claims that my church wrote the bible.
I didn't say it was Protestant, did I? The Protestants weren't around until the 16th century at the start of the Protestant Reformation.It wasn't Protestant
The Body of Christ/the Church has NEVER been without the Scriptures. The Old Testament certainly was around at that time...it was around when Jesus walked this earth, for He quoted from it. The New Testament canon was completed during the first century.How could it have been? The Bible wasn't compiled to the 300s.
The Church which was founded on upon Christ, was neither the Roman Catholic church nor the Eastern Orthodox church.
The New Testament church was biblical.
citation needed.The Scriptures were the only and final authority in the early churches.
Any teaching or practice which was merely the uninspired tradition of man was rejected. In addition, the New Testament church was spiritually alive-not merely an organization, but an organism. The churches were composed of regenerated, baptized believers.
There has alway been a remnant of born again believers from the first century church to this present day.....
but Christendom (those who profess Christ and warm the pews on Sunday mornings) have become apostate and this apostasy is getting worse. Jesus said "the gates of hell shall not prevail against His Church/Body", so therefore, nothing has happened to the Body of Christ/Church which He has built.
When were the first NT texts written?Another incorrect presumption on your part. This is just your opinion once again.
Gambling is a bad habit.And I bet you got your information straight from the "updated" church history books of the Roman Catholic church....correct?
...and that tells me that you have no comeback. None of the verses you posted mention scripture, save one, which mentions the Pentateuch.You can continue to reject and deny that those verses have anything to do with Sola Scriptura...that is your choice. However, your rejection and denial doesn't change the Truth about any of those verses I posted.
How could it not have been?It wasn't Protestant.
How could it have been? The Bible wasn't compiled to the 300s.
Another incorrect presumtion on your part. This is just your opinion once again. And I bet you got your information straight from the "updated" church history books of the Roman Catholic church....correct?
Were they written prior to Pentecost?in the Apostolic age.
People had compilations. Some had more some had less. it isn't as if no one had any idea of what comprised the body of scripture until the councils got around to asserting their dubious authority over it.The books that we now have in the Bible were written quite early on. However they were not compiled together into the Bible happened 300 years after Jesus
I love how you demand Sola Scriptura for satisfaction.Show from scripture why you have your position. Oh, I remember!I've asked you and you've replied that you just believe it to be so.
Apparently that's not unsupported!
According to the Barrett study there are 781 EO denominations and 242 Catholic denominations.
The Facts and Stats on 33000 Denominations: World Christian Encyclopedia (2001, 2nd edition)
So what authority would Christians have turned to between Pentecost and the writing of NT manuscripts?i doubt it,
The books that we now have in the Bible were written quite early on. However they were not compiled together into the Bible happened 300 years after Jesus
Old Testament Canon. The Old Testament was collected by the Jews (Romans 3:1)
as I told you earlier, Mary's assumption was common in the early church as a part of the deposit of the faith. It just wasn't fully defined until later on
[T]he Apostles took up her body on a bier and placed it in a tomb; and they guarded it, expecting the Lord to come. And behold, again the Lord stood by them; and the holy body having been received, He commanded that it be taken in a cloud into paradise: where now, rejoined to the soul, [Mary] rejoices with the Lord's chosen ones. . . (Eight Books of Miracles 1:4 [A.D. 575]).
If therefore it might come to pass by the power of your grace, it has appeared right to us your servants that, as you, having overcome death, do reign in glory, so you should raise up the body of your Mother and take her with you, rejoicing, into heaven. Then said the Savior [Jesus]: "Be it done according to your will" (The Passing of the Virgin 16:2-17 [A.D. 300]).
Therefore the Virgin is immortal to this day, seeing that he who had dwelt in her transported her to the regions of her assumption (Homily on Simeon and Anna [A.D. 400]).
The Lord said to his Mother, "Let your heart rejoice and be glad. For every favor and every gift has been given to you from my Father in heaven and from me and from the Holy Spirit. Every soul that calls upon your name shall not be ashamed, but shall find mercy and comfort and support and confidence, both in the world that now is and in that which is to come, in the presence of my Father in the heavens". . . And from that time forth all knew that the spotless and precious body had been transferred to paradise (The Dormition of Mary [A.D. 400]).
As the most glorious Mother of Christ, our Savior and God and the giver of life and immortality, has been endowed with life by him, she has received an eternal incorruptibility of the body together with him who has raised her up from the tomb and has taken her up to himself in a way known only to him (Encomium in dormitionnem Sanctissimae Dominae nostrae Deiparae semperque Virginis Mariae [ante A.D. 634]).
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