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  1. Albion

    "America" is now offensive to N and S America

    ...and a rather silly contention as well. The United States of America is the only nation in "the Americas" to have the word "America" as part of its official name, and it bears that name because it's taken from the name of one of early "discoverers" of this land--Amerigo Vespucci. When we look...
  2. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    ...just like the maps, tables of contents, publisher's statement, the publication date, and so on. All of that is "included" but NONE OF IT IS the very word of God, divine revelation. And yet you appear determined to insist that ALL OF IT and the uninspired Apocrypha books are indeed the word...
  3. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    You could, of course, have been misled by somebody else. Do I take it that you're admitting that the title is either an unproven theory or a personal hunch--seeing that you didn't question those possibilities? We've already corrected that disinformation. And what do you gain by making such a...
  4. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    Right. And I'm going to suggest that, hereafter, it not be allowed for any thread's title to be a theory or hearsay or a hunch, etc. stated as if it were fact. If there is something controversial that all of us should examine, then a question should be posed for the forum to discuss, but no...
  5. Albion

    TOBIT -by NathanH83

    I'm sorry, but that's tradition in the secular and casual sense of the word, meaning something handed down across time without a written agreement and not necessarily continuously. BUT in Christian theology, Tradition, AKA Sacred Tradition or Holy Tradition, has a precise meaning and is...
  6. Albion

    TOBIT -by NathanH83

    As long as you continue to misunderstand and misuse the term Tradition, you will not likely ever understand the issue here. It does not establish anything by "Tradition" to have people merely claiming something happened in history. It does not amount to "Tradition" if Jerome or Clement or...
  7. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    Without checking it through, I believe you are correct. These councils were not considered to be Ecumenical Councils with infallibility, but they were accepted/approved by the Latin Church. The question of the status of the Apocrypha, however, is another matter and is not solved merely because...
  8. Albion

    TOBIT -by NathanH83

    How in the world are we readers supposed to take such fantasies seriously? You might as well write that the Yellow Pages are the "official Protestant" version of the Bible. The only thing I can surmise is that it's another case of using ambiguous language in order to get away with an incorrect...
  9. Albion

    TOBIT -by NathanH83

    I can only go by what you wrote. If you didn't want to say what you wrote, you should have thought about your wording a bit more carefully. However, your slip-up in no way justifies the slander you indulge in in your next sentence (see below). And, by the way, if "blowing off" one of the Ten...
  10. Albion

    TOBIT -by NathanH83

    Once again, the attempt to insinuate that there is a single "The Protestant Church" that did or thinks something or other, and that we can point to some document that is the equivalent of a Papal ex Cathedra decree, etc. . Of course, when Catholicism is mentioned, THEN we're supposed to pretend...
  11. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    Exactly. They're laying the groundwork for "lone wolf" Christianity. No denomination that I am aware of, whether Catholic or Protestant, is silent on the matter of what books constitute the Bible. That's true. It's just a slogan ("were handed down from the Apostles.") There is no evidence of...
  12. Albion

    TOBIT -by NathanH83

    Urging anyone to make up his own personal version of a Bible, choosing which books he wants to consider to be divine revelation and which others he'll discard, is not very good advice. :rolleyes:
  13. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    But it corrected your mistake there and explained how the Christian church determined which writings/books were inspired of God and which--like the numerous Gnostic writings that had an entirely different understanding of salvation and God, etc--were of human origin and were not divinely...
  14. Albion

    "America" is now offensive to N and S America

    Yes, but you're expected to say "Neee-ZHER." :D
  15. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    Sorry. I was referring to the one immediately prior to yours--post #268. I also explained the point in an earlier reply to you. See the second section of post #260.
  16. Albion

    John 10:33

    That's very true. Definitely not that! We dare not fall into thinking that way. Jesus Christ was God himself, possessed of a full and complete divine nature (along with a complete human nature in addition).
  17. Albion

    Abolishing Prisons?

    This proposal seems to be propagated mainly by people who are sympathetic to 'ordinary' criminals--thefts, random shootings, carjackings, shoplifting, assault and battery, arson, and so on. It appears that the same people who are in favor of letting up on such criminals are unconcerned about...
  18. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    No. I've explained that mistake in my previous post. Read it again.
  19. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    That isn't correct. Until the two church councils that canonized scripture in the late 300s, all sorts of combinations were in use among the different churches of the Christian world. There had never been a general, universal decision made--not until the late 300s at which time the Apocrypha was...
  20. Albion

    A P O C R Y P H A : Included in every Holy Bible from the 4th century AD to the 19th Century AD

    You already said that and you were wrong then, too.
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