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To: Kolokotronis

John 21:25 (New American Standard Bible)

25And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.

I understand that Jesus' entire life is not put in the scriptures. Not an argument there, but I would argue that only that needed for Salvation are in the Scriptures, and some that might confuse the faithful is not.

Many Mysteries are not revealed, hence the Mystery part. The Latins, the Greeks and the Reformed agree with that. Just what is revealed is the problem.


25 posted on 11/11/2006 1:32:56 PM PST by Ottofire (Fire Tempers Steel)
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To: Ottofire

"I would argue that only that needed for Salvation are in the Scriptures,...."

Agreed 100%

"...and some that might confuse the faithful is not."

I don't doubt for a moment that this is true, but I would go on to say that much of what actually is in the canon of scripture is likewise confusing. Clearly this is true since, as Protestants would have it, the entire Church was in error for 1500 years before the Reformation; indeed, in error from the earliest post Resurrection, non scriptural writings like those of +Clement of Rome and +Ignatius of Antioch. I don;t accept that, but I do readily admit that rivers of blood have been spilled in the West since the Reformation over what the Bible means.

"Many Mysteries are not revealed, hence the Mystery part. The Latins, the Greeks and the Reformed agree with that. Just what is revealed is the problem."

Well, certainly Orthodoxy doesn't claim to have all the answers. For example, in the East we have no doubt that theosis comes through Christ and that Christ comes to us through The Church and Her Mysteries. But we have no idea wither the Spirit goes so we cannot say that outside The Church there is no salvation (unlike, I think, both the Romans and the Protestants) Mysteries are indeed Mysteries and in the East we are just fine with that.


33 posted on 11/11/2006 1:50:41 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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