I quote early church councils of Rome, Hippo, and Carthage. You say you don’t care.
No.
You said they were proclamations of The Early Church, which is wrong. They were REGIONAL meetings of different Western, Catholic dioceses... largely unknown, entirely unknown and unrecognized in the East. I didn't dispute that those diocese meetings in some way embraced some books beyond the 66, I never disputed that at all, although they did NOT embrace all the books YOU do. And you are WRONG to say they were binding, authoritative decisions of The Early Church. Anymore than some resolution of the 2019 Convention of the LCMS in Tampa, FL are The Modern Church declaring something, some binding decisions.
Try paying attention. ONE of your many problems is that you don't READ what people post to you (I give you credit that you at least admit this).
I quote Clement and Polycarp who met the disciples personally. You say you don’t care.
I never said any such thing.
You claim that the man with the very popular name of "Clement" that Paul mentions in Philippians IS St. Clement of Rome (the Third Pope). And I noted what everyone knows - you offered NOTHING to confirm this is true. Yes, I told you that your claim is not original with you, some TWO CENTURIES later, an individual also shared that opinion but also offered no evidence.
And I noted that you claimed St. Clement of Rome is a "direct disciple" of St. Paul. Yet here again, NOT ONE WORD to confirm your claim. St. Clement never said this, he never claimed to have even met Paul. NOTHING to confirm this as true. Nothing.
And I noted that your claim that St. Clement said that the Book of Tobit is Divine Scripture is simple a lie, as
you yourself chose to prove.
I don’t even know what your objective is.
I've told you repeatedly (but again, you've admitted you don't always read things posted to you). My "objective" is simple: Truth.
ll I know is that you don’t care what individuals in the early church said, nor do you care about what the church councils said.ac
I have no clue how you know that since I never remotely said that.
I honor and esteem Ecumenical Church Councils - all 7 of them. When you raised the Council of Nicea in 325, I said I submit to it and invited you to quote it saying ANYTHING that you are. But of course, you did not. And we all know why.
I honor many of the ECF. What I disagreed with is that if you can find one or two or even three INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIANS who have an opinion, ERGO The Early Church held to that position. That's just laughable and silly. Today, you may find Christians who believe the world is flat, that does NOT prove that THEREFORE some Ruling Body of All Christianity has authortatively declared such to be a fact. THINK.
And it is YOU that indicated you don't give a rip what some ECF believed in this regard. I quoted some who held that the Didache is Sacred Scripture, that the Shepherd of Hermas is Sacred Scripture, that the Epistle of Barnabas is Sacred Scripture but you completely, absolutely ignored this, considering what ECF thought on this subject is irrelevant. It's YOU who dismiss the ECF on this topic.
I DO care what the early church said.
GREAT! Then why don't you ever quote The Early Church? You've never done this.
You sometimes SAY you are quoting some individual, singular Christian (but typically, you prove that actually they never said what you claim they did), and a couple of years ago you noted 3 regional, diocese meetings of the Roman, Western Church (the meetings of which you do not consider authoritatiive) but they were no more The Early Church speaking than the 2019 Convention of the LCMS in Tampa Fl. If you have something from The Early Church, quote it. But we all know why you don't. We all know why.
You make lots and lots of claims..... claims, claims, claims, claims.
NEVER offering ANY substantiation of the truthfulness of such.
Often taking the time to personally prove such to be WRONG.
You seem to admit they may be "TECHNICALLY WRONG" but you seem to hold that therefore, they are correct.
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