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To: DieHard the Hunter; NYer
“I think his point is that Jesus himself personally did not write, nor command his disciples to write, any of the New Testament.”



Do you think that Jesus, the God-man, was unaware that his disciples would write it???

Think about this for a minute - Peter spoke of Paul's writings as Scripture...


"And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures." -

2 Peter 3:14-16


42 posted on 08/24/2007 7:08:17 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus; NYer

> Do you think that Jesus, the God-man, was unaware that his disciples would write it???

It is not up to me to speculate on what Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, was or was not aware of when He was on this earth. To know that would require Divine insight, which I do not have.

It is a matter of historical fact that, as best we can tell, Jesus Himself personally neither wrote or instructed his disciples to write, any of the New Testament.

Whether they did so of Divine Inspiration is a different matter and a different question: I believe they did.

What St Peter said of St Paul, or what St Paul thought of St Peter, is entirely beside the point. NYer’s point remains intact and, on this matter anyway, fundamentally correct.


58 posted on 08/24/2007 10:37:30 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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