What does scripture say is scripture?

[MoreCoffee]

If the content of my posts remains unchanged on the matter of the canonical books of the holy scriptures that is because the facts remain the same no matter what time of day I post them. If religion forbids one to believe the truth then that is sad, so sad.

 

[Josiah]

If the content of my posts remains unchanged on the matter of the canonical books of the holy scriptures that is because the facts remain the same no matter what time of day I post them. If religion forbids one to believe the truth then that is sad, so sad.

Permitted - if you show the same toward all others.

And the fact remains the same: Your individual, singular denomination has a UNIQUE Bible, UNIQUE canon, UNIQUE embrace of what is and is not Scripture, one that is in DISunity with all, one that is shared by NONE, the singular RC Denomination stands alone on this. That's the fact, as you know (we all know). So, it seems odd you keep bringing up the issue of your denomination's disunity with all, it's UNIQUE position on this. And that you'd keep suggesting that if a singular denomination (like the LDS for example) has a UNIQUE canon - ergo it must have divine authority and all should follow its lead (as NONE have - NONE agrees with the LDS or RCC on this issue).

Now, perhaps you want to start a thread, "Why does NONE agree with the singular, individual RC Denomination on the canon? Why have NONE ever followed the RC Denomination's lead on this issue? Why does the RCC agree with NONE and NONE agree with it on this?" Of course, you'd probably want to insert the LDS Denomination in on that too since the EXACT SAME issues and questions apply equally there, as well.



- Josiah

 

[MoreCoffee]

Permitted - if you show the same toward all others.

- Josiah

You believe what you like and nobody stops you from doing so.

 

[Pedrito]

In Post #22 on Page 3, MoreCoffee stated:

The faithful have Jesus as their advocate, they need fear no accusations. Who shall separate them from the love of God? I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength, nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate them from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus their Lord.

That actually goes without saying.

But who are the faithful? And faithful to what?

Are the faithful to be defined as the ones who believe what Paul believed about God and His Son Jesus? Or are they deemed to be people who believe something else?

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Are Paul’s clearly expressed beliefs to be considered defective (in the light of later doctrinal developments)?

Was what Paul was preaching and writing indeed inspired by God? Or was Paul preaching “another gospel”? If he was proclaiming God’s inspired truth, then might it not be sensible to believe what he was proclaiming?

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Paul identified the Hebrew “canon” as being “Sacred Scriptures” (Romans 1:2; 2 Timothy 3:15). He preached from it, did he not?
Acts 18:28 “For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.” Because Paul was a Pharisee, then his inspired statements indicate that Holy Writ as it then existed, was the set of writings acknowledged by the Pharisees as divinely inspired.

And didn’t Peter verify the pertinence of the Hebrew Scriptures as recorded, when he said in Acts 3:13:
“The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.”


Therefore, perhaps it is those who are faithful to the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jesus, Peter and Paul, and to the writings that that God inspired (both Old and New Testaments in agreement), who can have the confidence expounded by MoreCoffee above.

What does the Reader think?