And it is the Church that gave us knowledge of which texts were divinely inspired. To love the Bible is to love the Church which gave it to us. And finally in the Church you can know with perfect certainty that you are in right standing with your Lord and Creator, Jesus Christ.
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Replying to @ajvasel
The Apocrypha, which we call the Deuterocanonical, were canonized by the Church at the Council of Carthage 397AD, which settled for every Christian the NT Canon. If you trust they got the NT right, why not the OT too?
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Replying to @DavisBlankEG @ajvasel
But its a major question that few ever think about: how does any Christian know that Philemon was inspired, rather than just a simple letter? How do we know that Hebrews, whom we do not know who even wrote, is divinely inspired? For God never gave us a Table of Contents
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Replying to @DavisBlankEG @ajvasel
And within a letter, even if you take it for granted as being inspired, how do we know every word within it was inspired? No where does Scripture tell us any of this. When one investigates this serious problem he eventually runs into the Catholic Church
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Replying to @DavisBlankEG @ajvasel
For it was the Catholic Church, in 397 AD, whom authoritatively declared to all her members that these books (including apocrypha / deuterocanonicals), were inspired by God. It is on the authority of the Church that the Bible can even be known to be inspired.
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Replying to @DavisBlankEG @ajvasel
It is upon the Church that the Scriptures are known. Which is no shock though, for Scripture tells us so: 1 Tim 3:15 the pillar and foundation of truth is the Church(!) (note that Scripture itself says the Church, not Scripture, is the foundation of truth)
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Replying to @DavisBlankEG
Everywhere that Paul went, he opened the Scriptures to show them the revelation that Jesus was the Christ. The Church was established upon the chief cornerstone, Jesus. We know this because of what is revealed to us in... Scripture.
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Replying to @ajvasel
Again, we must take all parts of Scripture as being true. Eph 2:20 says it was built on the foundation of apostles, prophets and Jesus as cornerstone (it was built upon all those groups). And Mat 16:18 Jesus explicitly says He is founding it on Peter, and will give him the keys
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Replying to @DavisBlankEG @ajvasel
And so we must say that all of these are true. The Church was founded on the apostles, yes. On prophets, yes. On Jesus the cornerstone, yes. On St. Peter, yes. But only to Peter were given the keys to Heaven, and name changed (name changes signify major importance).
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and what were the keys? they were the ability to explain the soul-saving gospel of Jesus Christ the binding and loosing - the authority to declare what was lawful or unlawful (for example, the removal (or clarification) that circumcision was not a Gentile believers requirement)
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