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To: NKP_Vet
Can you get your head around the fact that the teachings of God, then the teachings of Jesus Christ were taught before one word was written down! Was Abraham reading a Bible. For years and years after the death of Christ not a thing about his life and teachings were written down, then the apostles started dying off and the only way His teachings could be carried on for generations to come was by it being written down! That’s why the NT was stated. Why in the world is that so hard for you or anyone other than a Catholic or an Orthodox Christian to understand. And those two Christians faiths just happen to to be able to trace their heritage straight back to Jesus.

You've just proved you don't bother reading what I post. I've been saying that all along! What you don't seem to be able to get your head around is that what God intended for us to KNOW is contained in the sacred Scripture HE ensured would be written. How else could anyone know what happened to Abraham or Adam and Eve or all the other people and events that coalesce into the whole rule of our faith? How did anyone know what transpired between Jesus and the devil after Jesus' 40 day fast in the desert? How else did they know what Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane the night he was betrayed? How else the specific words the angels announced to the shepherds the night Christ was born? All these things were because the Holy Spirit TOLD the writers of Scripture TO write them down so that we here, two thousand years later, can be as sure of the truth as they were that first century. No one is rejecting all traditions, just that no tradition is above the Scripture and anything that is deemed necessary to be believed, MUST be validated BY God's word - the Bible.

I can also trace my faith straight back to Jesus. Roman Catholicism teaches, as mandatory to salvation, things that cannot be traced straight back to Jesus nor to the early church established by the Apostles. Everything I believe I CAN show you in Scripture. It is based on what the word of God says.

367 posted on 05/24/2014 7:56:57 PM PDT by boatbums (Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
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To: boatbums
"I can also trace my faith straight back to Jesus. Roman Catholicism teaches, as mandatory to salvation, things that cannot be traced straight back to Jesus nor to the early church established by the Apostles. Everything I believe I CAN show you in Scripture. It is based on what the word of God says. "

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393 posted on 05/25/2014 6:09:51 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Magnimus, 2014)
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