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To: FatherofFive
And while you're at it, answer these questions:

1) Where did Jesus give instructions that the Christian faith should be based exclusively on a book?

2) Where did Jesus tell His apostles to write anything down and compile it into an authoritative book?

3) Where in the New Testament do the apostles tell future generations that the Christian faith will be based solely on a book?

4) Where in the Bible do we find an inspired and infallible list of books that should belong in the Bible?

128 posted on 09/02/2016 12:50:00 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive
1) Where did Jesus give instructions that the Christian faith should be based exclusively on a book?

2 Tim 3:15-17

2) Where did Jesus tell His apostles to write anything down and compile it into an authoritative book?

John 20:31 31but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

3) Where in the New Testament do the apostles tell future generations that the Christian faith will be based solely on a book?

Where does it say we have to accept the CCC as authoritative?

Without the Bible as the standard then any book can be considered "inspired". The Mormon can claim the Book of Mormon, the Muslim the Koran, etc.

If the Bible is not the standard then there is no standard.

You know, for a group that claims to have given the world the Bible, roman catholics seem to go out of their way to deny the Bible as the source of authority.

144 posted on 09/03/2016 8:11:05 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: FatherofFive
Where did Jesus give instructions that the Christian faith should be based exclusively on a book?

"They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them."

164 posted on 09/04/2016 4:52:11 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: FatherofFive; Scythian_Reborn; AzIrish; HiTech RedNeck; Boogieman; Finatic
1) Where did Jesus give instructions that the Christian faith should be based exclusively on a book? 2) Where did Jesus tell His apostles to write anything down and compile it into an authoritative book? 3) Where in the New Testament do the apostles tell future generations that the Christian faith will be based solely on a book?

Consistent with your argument from silence, in the same place that the Lord and or His apostles gave instructions that their wholly inspired words should not be subsequently written by wholly inspired men for preservation ("He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them... -John 14:21), and become the transcendent standard for obedience and testing Truth claims, as God did in the foundational OT,

A few questions for you are what mode did God use to preserve His word, and what substantive body of Truth is wholly inspired, and became the standard for obedience and testing Truth claims, and to which even apostolic preaching was subject to testing by. And by conflation with additional wholly inspired words (not simply error-free teachings) could be added, if given.

What pope can you claim was or is speaking as wholly inspired word of God in declaring the actual formal word of God (versus "preaching the word" as all the church did in Acts 8:4, that of Scriptural Truths), and even providing new revelation, as the Lord and apostles did?

On what basis can you claim the church of Rome possesses unique ensured but but non-inspired infallibility to autocratically selectively declare oral traditions to be the binding actual word of God?

4)

Where in the Bible do we find an inspired and infallible list of books that should belong in the Bible?

Answered in previous post.

Where in the Bible do we find that an infallible magisterium is essential to know what is of God?

172 posted on 09/04/2016 8:37:26 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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