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To: streetpreacher
"The Word of God does the judging."

I'm really interested in which version of the Word of God you have settled on and how and why. Did the Word of God come directly to you from God or are you relying on the work of fallible mortals who preceded you, including many "Romanists"? Have you read any of the original works of the old or new testaments in their original languages with full knowledge of the regional idiomatic contexts? Have you read the Septuagint scriptures, the Samaratin canon, the gnostic gospels, or the other contemporary writings? Have you read the letters of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria? How about the African Synod of Hippo, written in 393, or the edicts of the Councils of Carthage in 397 and 419. Then there is that darn Romanist, Pope Damasus I's Council of Rome in 382, (the Decretum Gelasianum is correctly associated with it). Likewise, Damasus's commissioning of the Latin Vulgate? In 405, Pope Innocent I sent a list of the sacred books to a Gallic bishop, Exsuperius of Toulouse that was asserted to be the edited and final "Word of God" that stood until the full dogmatic articulation of the canon by the Council of Trent of 1546 for Roman Catholicism. Or did you put your faith in the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563 for the Church of England, the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1647 for Calvinism, and the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672 for the Greek Orthodox?

72 posted on 01/27/2008 9:30:28 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

Applewhite convinced some people to snip their testicles off and kill themselves to catch a spaceship in the tail of a comet to get to heaven.

Do his writings count too?


80 posted on 01/27/2008 10:24:31 PM PST by tpanther
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To: Natural Law; streetpreacher
I'm really interested in which version of the Word of God you have settled on and how and why. Did the Word of God come directly to you from God or are you relying on the work of fallible mortals who preceded you, including many "Romanists"? Have you read any of the original works of the old or new testaments in their original languages with full knowledge of the regional idiomatic contexts? Have you read the Septuagint scriptures, the Samaratin canon, the gnostic gospels, or the other contemporary writings? Have you read the letters of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria? How about the African Synod of Hippo, written in 393, or the edicts of the Councils of Carthage in 397 and 419. Then there is that darn Romanist, Pope Damasus I's Council of Rome in 382, (the Decretum Gelasianum is correctly associated with it). Likewise, Damasus's commissioning of the Latin Vulgate? In 405, Pope Innocent I sent a list of the sacred books to a Gallic bishop, Exsuperius of Toulouse that was asserted to be the edited and final "Word of God" that stood until the full dogmatic articulation of the canon by the Council of Trent of 1546 for Roman Catholicism. Or did you put your faith in the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563 for the Church of England, the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1647 for Calvinism, and the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672 for the Greek Orthodox?The Word of God is much easier to access than this. Simply place faith alone in Christ alone and let God do all the work.

The Word of God, also known as the LOGOS in Greek, or MEMRA in Aramaic, or Dabar(sp?) in Hebrew. Instead of identifying the Word of God with a man made reading text, it is maybe more fruitful to understand some man made texts, which have been inspired by Him, are identifiable with His WORD.

The is only one Word of God, which has always been, and He is not a God of confusion, but a God of the Living.

150 posted on 01/29/2008 8:23:38 PM PST by Cvengr (Fear sees the problem emotion never solves. Faith sees & accepts the solution, problem solved.)
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