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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
"But the theologizing was completed for all by the authors of the Bible under the inspiration of God."

One might be tempted to respond apparently not because the early Christians had to argue amongst themselves and with the Arian and Gnostic heretics about what the Bible meant and even which texts should be included in the final version (not decided until a church council)with various reformulated statements of Christian beliefs in the "Creed" and the pronouncements of church councils.

Your statement above, from the prior post, is a "theological" proposition itself subject to reflective analysis. In analytical form: Divine Revelation is of such a nature that the "theologizing" which carries official doctrinal truth "was completed for all by the authors of the Bible under the inspiration of God." By "inspired" we mean that God, acting through the Holy Spirit, illumined the minds of the Gospel writers. The conceptual categories of your theological claim are - Divine Revelation, the Holy Spirit, Sacred Scripture, and Divine Inspiration. The reference to "the Bible" assumes some accepted form of canonical texts of sacred scripture arrived at in church council through deliberation with "the Church" understood as also under the direction of the Holy Spirit. Welcome to the Catholic Church, my friend!

125 posted on 01/03/2002 9:16:43 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
My statement was not theologizing.

2 Tim. 3:16-17

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

1 John 2:27

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Becky

129 posted on 01/03/2002 9:38:35 AM PST by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
The reference to "the Bible" assumes some accepted form of canonical texts of sacred scripture arrived at in church council through deliberation with "the Church" understood as also under the direction of the Holy Spirit. Welcome to the Catholic Church, my friend!

Not for me, thanks. catholics have their "extra-canon" books; which are not recognized by protestants as being inspired writing. Some were added to your canon waaaay late, to drum up support for the practice of issuing indulgences.

Follow the money.

186 posted on 01/04/2002 10:12:15 AM PST by packrat01
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