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To: RGPII
Bible Plus Tradition or Bible alone?

2Pet 3:15-16 - Paul's letters can be difficult to grasp & interpret

Is it Tradition that calls for you to misrepresent the verse by not posting all of it??? Or is the verse referring to YOU???

Paul's letters are not difficult to grasp or interpret...Unless you are ingorant in the Scriptures...

2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Did your church ever read the next verse to you???

2Pe 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.

My, My, My...The Scriptures paint quite a different picture than the one you are trying to paint...

22 posted on 11/27/2008 6:44:32 AM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool
Is it Tradition that calls for you to misrepresent the verse by not posting all of it??? Or is the verse referring to YOU???

Paul's letters are not difficult to grasp or interpret...Unless you are ingorant in the Scriptures...

2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Did your church ever read the next verse to you???

2Pe 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.

My, My, My...The Scriptures paint quite a different picture than the one you are trying to paint...

Considering I placed about a dozen quotes up and now we see the citations from Peter are used, I am glad to see that you are at least reading the Bible.

I'm not positive what your point is. I'm not resorting to taking a quote out of context. Some points are summarized from the quotes I used as 1 Peter 1:25.

Yes, I fully read Peter 3:15 and 16

Think of your Lord's patience as your opportunity to be saved; our Brother Paul who is so dear to us, told you this when he wrote to you with the wisdom he was given. He makes this point tooin his letters as a whole whenever he touches on these things. In all his letters there are of course some passages which are hard to understand and these are the ones that uneducated and unbalanced people distort, in the same way they distort the rest of scripture-to their own destruction.

Now what does post 16 assert: "2Pet 3:15-16 - Paul's letters can be difficult to grasp & interpret : this is why there are volumes of interpretations of Paul and he is largely quoted by the Reformation in fact and yet, they nor anyone can still get him right.

25 posted on 11/27/2008 8:19:43 AM PST by RGPII
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To: Iscool

2Pe 3:17 is a warning against abandoning the Church founded by Christ in the name of tepid YOPIOS and non-scriptural traditions of men. Beware “the error of the wicked” men like Luther, Cauvin, Zwingli, Smith, Spurgeon, Machen, Hubbard, and all those who abandon the God-given gifts of logic and common sense.


27 posted on 11/27/2008 8:38:48 AM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Iscool
So, you qoute 1Peter3:16 .... I guess your point is that Protestants qualify as learned, and therefor can understand.

But everybody else (the vast majority of Christians) is unlearned and unstable, and therefore can't read Scripture right ...

Wow.

How about some humble pie for Thanksgiving?
31 posted on 11/27/2008 11:33:34 AM PST by Lilllabettt
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