The Word records...."it is written" is used 76 times in the Bible. 16 are in the OT and 60 are in the NT. Paul uses this phrase more than all the other writers of the NT employing it 16x.
The word "written" is used 251x in the Bible with 133x in the OT and 118x in the NT. Paul uses it the most in the NT with 20 in Romans, 17 in 1&2 Corinthians, 4 in Galatians, 1 in 1 Thessalonians and 2x in Hebrews.
We see Jesus and the disciples appeal to the Word when He was tempted by Satan.
Paul and Peter quoted the Word.
The disciples quoted the Word.
Mary quoted the Word.
John recorded,"these things are written so you may believe".
Luke researched and wrote two accounts of Jesus and his (Luke's)travels with Paul so we would have a record.
God gave Moses the written Law.
The Old Testament was in place at the time of Christ. That was the "Bible" at the time. It was the written Word.
(interesting, since there was no ‘bible’ till the catholic church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, put the OT and NT together,at the council of nicea....
There was no roman catholic church as constituted today. For we don't see a pope, the worship of Mary, praying to saints in Heaven, indulgences, the immaculate conception, etc, etc, etc. So no, the RCC didn't give us the Bible.
I always find it so funny that the very group who has claimed to "give" us the Bible is the first group to so readily dismiss the authority of the Word.
and please, dont play that game with me....the pic is perfectly legit, since all those denominations, claim as you do, that they use just the word of God....i.e. bible alone.....
Yes, please. Don't play this game. When Roman Catholicism can say that each and every message, every Sunday School lesson(?), every article written by Msgr Pope, every Bible study, etc, has been cleared through the Vatican, then you can talk. Just the responses on this board disprove any claim to the so called unity of Roman Catholicism.
You wanna keep playing?
again, not one of those quotes, says the word alone, or the word ‘bible’, or to use a bible alone, outside the teaching church.
nice try.
yeah, let’s keep playing, you dig into your little anti catholic “im holier than thou” protestant playbook, and i will continue to use logic, history and and God’s own teaching church, Sacred Tradition, and the Word, as history has shown repeatedly, to be the truth.
Remember, without reinterpreting, please tell us all what the bible says it the pillar and foundation of all truth....
go ahead, will wait till you set up your hermeneutical somersaults to explain that away.