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To: Petrosius
Where did you get such a silly idea? Timothy wrote not one of the gospels nor even one of the epistles. In 1 Timothy 4:14 we read:...

Better read my post again. I did not say that Timothy wrote a Gospel, rather that I Timothy was a letter written to him by the Apostle Paul.

Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

It is interesting to notice that you and the Catholic Church, in their own version of the Bible, have changed the word eldership to priesthood Thus the grace that was given to Timothy was not from a personal charism of Paul but from the office of priest.

Better read II Tim 1:6. Timothy as well as Titus got their miraculous power of the Holy Spirit from Paul not some priesthood. Also, both Timothy and Titus were Evangelist (not priest) and they appointed Elders/Bishops (not priest). By your twisted logic you have priest appointing priest for the task of appointing priest.

160 posted on 06/10/2006 12:57:09 PM PDT by tenn2005 (Birth is merely an event; it is the path walked that becomes one's life.)
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To: tenn2005
I did not say that Timothy wrote a Gospel, rather that I Timothy was a letter written to him by the Apostle Paul.

I believe that here we have the case of a difference in the use of terms. In Catholic usage evangelists refers only to the writers of one of the four gospels (in Greek euangelion, and in Latin evangelium). Beyond this misunderstanding however, how, in your mind, would Timothy's and Titus' office of evangelist differ from that of bishop which Paul describes?

It is interesting to notice that you and the Catholic Church, in their own version of the Bible, have changed the word eldership to priesthood

And where do you think the term 'priest' comes from? It is a corruption of the Latin word 'presbyter', in Greek presbuteros, meaning elder. If we were discussing this in either Latin or Greek we could not have this dispute over the name of the office. It was the reformers who changed the translation from the traditional 'priest' to 'elder' to mask the relation to the modern priesthood.

172 posted on 06/10/2006 3:28:44 PM PDT by Petrosius
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