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To: CynicalBear

You are free to believe what is in the Scripture, but there is much that you believe that is not in Scripture, including what is Scripture. The Gospels tell us what happens up to the time of the Ascension into Heaven. Acts tells us something of the history of the early Church, but disappoint, because in the case of Peter et al, the native cuts away from him as if, the sincere reader will see, to take it up at a later time. Ditto what happens to Paul, after he comes to Rome. Why leave us hanging? Because Acts is a fragment. The author tells us what he knows, and that is far from being the whole story. The letters by Paul and others attributed to him, are occasional pieces, sermons, and in the case of Romans, something like a treatise. Revelation is an apocalypse, one of a kind, but Christian rather than Jewish as are several others of the time. All this writing is evidence, but evidence, as any lawyer can tell you, is putty in the hands of its interpreter. You, sir, are full of conjecture, but cannot admit it.


44 posted on 06/13/2012 11:23:17 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: RobbyS
>>but there is much that you believe that is not in Scripture, including what is Scripture.<<

Like what?

>>Why leave us hanging?<<

Because it was enough.

"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." 2 Tim. 3:16-17.

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. - I John 2:27

>>You, sir, are full of conjecture, but cannot admit it.<<

What have I said that is conjecture?

61 posted on 06/14/2012 5:54:48 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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