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| 1: | Geographic variation caused New Testament canon variation from ...
Geographic variation caused New Testament canon variation from 33 AD - 400 AD Geographic variation caused New Testament canon variation from 33 AD - 400 AD A conservative, bible believing perspective! God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. God, not men decided the canon. ... accepted as scripture earlier in the east, than in the west; and while Revelation seems to have been unquestionably accepted as scripture earlier in the west, than the east, the fact remains that both east and west had copies of both Hebrews and Revelation from 100 AD. I. Stumper Questions for Roman Catholics and Orthodox: If the Roman Catholic church gave the world the Bible, being infallible, then why did Rome reject or question the inspiration of James and Hebrews , then later accept it? ... It is likely that the "canons" of the different regions influenced one another. The boundaries of the canon were fluid in the second and the third centuries. To sum up, the church ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-why-varied-geography-30-400AD.htm | 97%  Size: 27K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD ... WILLIAM'S RESPONSE: Brendan takes great liberty with Scripture, drawing conclusions not necessarily supported by the text. It does not say the ... Their records demonstrate that the Orthodox churches observed, instead, a Sabbath festival at several times during their liturgical year. This ... the Roman Catholic Church could have "changed" the Sabbath. At the same time, we acknowledge that there have always been small pockets of Sabbatarians throughout the history of the church. In fact, Christian groups which kept the Sabbath during the first and second centuries quickly ... prove that information comes only from an intelligent source, whether the vehicle that carries that information is DNA or the pages of a book. ... The books of the Bible share many attributes with world literature. We mentioned earlier that failure to understand the linguistics of the ... Later in the Old Testament, God tells His people that the Old Covenant will be replaced with a new one that will be very different. The New ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-lying-for-god-Kerry-Wynne.htm | 89% Size: 2.6M Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal History of Tongues: 150 AD - 1901 ... ... Again, it is significant that tongues are mentioned only in the earliest books of the New Testament. Paul wrote at least twelve ... Most of their prophecies went unfulfilled. They were rabidly anti-Catholic, and advocated the use of armed force against the Catholic ... that since the canon of Scripture was completed, no genuine revival or orthodox movement has ever been led by people whose authority is based in any way on private revelations from God. ... In the second Book of Jeu, a glossolalic prayer of Jesus of some six lines is preserved in garbled Greek within a Coptic text. The ... to paganism. (Earle E. Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1954), 110- 11.) (Charismatic Chaos, ... The only trouble is that these modern miracles are not so well known as the earlier ones" (Augustine, "The City of God," Book 22, ... moving in that direction and led him to accept the invitation of Henry Drummond (d. 1860) (Drummond later became an Irvingite leader. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues-history.htm | 88% Size: 295K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | Reasons why the Apocrypha does NOT belong in the Bible! Roman Catholic and Orthodox Faith Examined and The Apocrypha "The Jewish canon, or the Hebrew Bible, was universally received, while the Apocrypha ... the Old Testament and the New, all originated after the cessation of prophecy, and they cannot therefore be regarded as inspired, nor are they ever cited by Christ or the apostles" (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, book 3, chapter 9) 21 reasons why the Apocrypha is not inspired: The Roman Catholic Church did not ... They were not allowed a place among the sacred books, during the first four centuries of the Christian Church. They contain ... but has not been deemed worthy of equal credit with the earlier records because of the failure of the exact succession of ... The terms "protocanonical" and "deuterocanonical" are used by Catholics to signify respectively those books of Scripture that ... Since these same councils also finalized the 66 canonical books which all Christians accept, they must accept them all. False. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/catholic-apocrypha.htm | 85% Size: 16K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | The Catholic Church did not Give the world The Bible! some and approving others as worthy of inclusion in the canon of the New Testament, there would be no New Testament today. ... by the divine authority of the Catholic Church that Christians know that the scripture is the word of God, and what books certainly belong to the Bible." (The Question Box, p. 46) "It was the Catholic Church and no other which selected and listed the inspired books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament...If you can accept the Bible or any part of it as inspired Word of God, you can do so only because the Catholic Church says it is." (The Bible is a Catholic Book, p. 4). ... A notable example of this is the Codex Sinaiticus which was found in the monastery of St. Catherine (of the Greek Orthodox ... had been in possession of the Patriarchs for centuries and originally came from Alexandria, Egypt from which it gets its name. ... the Vatican Manuscript and the Sinaitic Manuscript date back earlier than 390 A.D. Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-bible-origin.htm | 85% Size: 23K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | George Salmon's Infallibiliy of the church ... For the Catholic, the authority of the Bible rests on the higher authority of the Church and he will only accept from the Bible what has ... to acknowledge that we are incompetent to decide what is Scripture or its meaning, and if it belongs to the Church of Rome alone to ... as the most effective book of Catholic apologetics), three maxims are laid down which, says the author, no rational Christian will dispute. ... The first Christians, they tell us, did not learn their religion from books. There were flourishing Churches before any Book of the New Testament was ... If the thing has been handed down from the Apostles the Church of the first centuries must have believed or practiced it: let us inquire, ... Virgin and the human nature of our Lord," even though the earlier Church had been blind to such inferences. [33] 3. Things long ... Gregory, on the basis of an obsolete canon, was pressed into resigning the see of Constantinople. Though indignant at his treatment, he ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-salmon-infallibility.htm | 82% Size: 282K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | REFUTED: Full-Preterist, "Realized Eschatology", "AD 70 doctrine ... of Full-Preterism make mush of time. 1 7. The Kingdom of Old Testament prophecy is the church. 1 8. The entire first century church ... based upon Josephus' 7th sign (Wars 6:296 is actually dated to Pentecost Sunday 2nd June AD 65) and date the book of Revelation to c. ... on the door of a Catholic and asks him, "Do you keep the ten commandments and the Sabbath holy. The Catholic, knowing nothing of scripture, answers, "of course". ... correction shifts their "rapture/second coming" one full year earlier, a time when even they admit Christians were still present on the ... Messianic prophecies become obvious only after the fact of fulfillment. d. Some Christians only accept messianic prophecies that are ... Isaiah 40:6-8 (Old Testament canon) 1 Peter 1:24-25 (New Testament canon) "For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower ... in spite of their first fulfillment centuries earlier. 8. How the Jews approached the Olivet discourse after the day of Pentecost: a. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/revelation/Refuted-Full-Preterism-Realized-eschatology-debunked-exposed-second-coming-Parousia-rapture-destruction-Jerusalem-70AD-Doctrine-Revelation-Commentary.htm | 82% Size: 1.1M Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ... ... the New Testament church, when from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries the abominations of the Roman Catholic church deluged the earth. ... The essence of Protestantism is creedism. I am neither Catholic nor Protestant, friends. I am not a Catholic. I am not a Protestant. The ... can be accomplished is to lay aside party names, party creeds, party doctrines, dogmas and ordinances, and return to the New Testament. ... Then he took up the Bible, held it before them, and said, "Will you all accept this book as the right standard of authority?" You know what occurred? ... Between the abominations of Roman Catholicism on one hand and the dissensions and discords of Orthodox Protest-antism on the other hand, the ... thing on earth, just so it is not specifically condemned and prohibited by a scripture injunction. What a sweeping apology for innovation! ... The pope is the vicar of God, and all the bishops are vicars of the pope, per these canons. Seventeen: This canon, viewed separately, makes ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/catholic/Catholic-church-doctrine-Bulwarks-of-the-Faith-Foy-E-Wallace-JR-Refuting-Dogmas-Catholicism-Protestant-Denominationalism-1951AD.htm | 82% Size: 1.6M Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | Sabbathgate 1888 by Kerry Wynne ... Bacchiocchi flat-out confirmed what D. M. Canright taught almost 100 years earlier by his direct testimony that the Sabbath of ... To accomplish this twisting of Scripture, Bacchiocchi proposed that Paul was condemning the abusive additional rules and ... Without it, there is no proof that the Adventist Church is the church of Bible prophecy for the last days. In this book we ... from the fact that whether it was considered to be worthy of inclusion in the Canon or not, it still documents the FACT that Christians were not keeping the Sabbath hundreds of years before there was a pope or a Roman Catholic Church. ... They simply recorded the facts! Seventh-day Adventists decline to accept the significance of the testimony of the early ... Siege in 135 AD. However, we can see, even in the New Testament writings that each time Christians got together, other ... It was discovered that the heathen didn't rest from work on Sunday. "In the early centuries of the Church's history down to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-sabbathgate-1888ad-Kerry-Wynne.htm | 81% Size: 714K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | "KJV Only" advocates refuted! ONLY excellent translation. In over 90 percent of the New Testament, readings are identical word-for-word, regardless of the family. ... number of manuscripts, comparing manuscripts easily reveals any place where a scribe has made an error or where there is a variation. ... The TR itself was based on a very few, late scripts, not one of which contained the entire Greek New Testament and none earlier than the 12th century. In the matter of the book of ... Jesus promised that "scripture cannot be broken" John 10:36 and Peter said, that the "imperishable ... word of the Lord abides ... Does not this show that the translators were influenced by their contemporary theology and the Catholic false doctrine of "sainthood"? ... The definite article was also added to the centurion's confession in Mt 27:54.) How can you accept that the Textus Receptus is perfect ... "in favor of canonizing our KJV," thus replacing the inspired canon in Hebrew and Greek? [The Flaming Torch, June 1989, page 6] Did ... ... https://www.bible.ca/b-kjv-only.htm | 81% Size: 229K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | Official creed of the Orthodox church ... exactly as we know them today, is found in the 33rd Canon of a local council held at Carthage in 318, and in a fragment of St. ... There have been hundreds of such councils -- local and regional -- over the centuries of the history of the Church, and seven ... Among the specific gifts of the Spirit mentioned in the New Testament are: apostleship, prophecy, evangelism, pastoring, ... Faith is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, the Synod of Bishops confesses that the Church has never been divided. ... Orthodoxy can never accept such an ecclesiology. It believes and bears witness that there is no need to assemble particles of the truth, since the Orthodox Church is the repository of the fullness of the Truth, which was given to Her on ... Many cults claim the Bible as their basis, but they alter the historic interpretation of Scripture to persist in their own ... I N T R O D U C T I O N For some time we were in need of a Catechism book for our Sunday School children besides teaching them ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-Orthodox.htm | 81% Size: 149K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel, Beth Alpert ... ... The New Testament is a useful source of information on early Judaism, and ancient historians such as Herodotus and Josephus have presented ... Control over religious practice was essential as royalty attempted to manage divergent clan and priestly groups. In Chapter Four, the book ... The relationship between Israelite religion and the earlier religion(s) of Canaan must also be explored. 5 ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE RELIGIONS OF ... The term did not appear again until the late fifteenth century booty list of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenophis II. In later centuries, it ... and independent discipline and challenged archaeologists to accept the standards of the social sciences in their fieldwork and analysis. ... Among those Greek Orthodox villagers practicing kourbánia, the dominant element, which gives neo-Greek sacrifice its own physiognomy, is ... Pp. 1-17 in Scripture and Other Artifacts: Essays on the Bible and Archaeology in Honor of Philip J. King, eds. M. D. Coogan, J. C. Exum and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-archaeology-and-the-religions-of-Canaan-and-israel-beth-alpert-nakhai.htm | 79% Size: 576K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Kadesh-Barnea by Henry Clay Trumbull, 1884 AD ... now well-nigh twenty centuries the location of Kadesh-barnea has been a matter of doubt and discussion among Jewish and Christian scholars. ... Concerning the use of this term in biblical and elassical history, Bee Prideaux s Connection, Part I., Book 1, p. 87 /. LIGHTS AND SHAD OWS AT ... people turned from their divinely appointed leader, and refused to accept the divine plan for their inheritance ; even choosing a captain of ... for Xegeb in the Onomasticon is Daromas, but they carry it farther northward than the Xegeb of the Old Testament." (Keil and Delitzsch s Bib. ... Kadesh-barnea; Num. 32: 8; Deut. 1: 19 /.; Josh. 14: 7), at the time of the first grapes (Xum. 13: 21) that is, August (or earlier). . . . ... history bears no inconsiderable resemblance to the Scripture narrative of Chedor-laomer." (Sir II. Rawlinson, in Eawlinson s Herodotus, Vol. ... he proffers no direct proof of this fact (Pict. Egypt, II., 99). Canon Cook (Speaker s Com., Append, to Exod.) says : " It is very probable ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-henry-clay-trumbull-1884ad.htm | 79% Size: 1.1M Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd ... II. Dating Revelation from ancient literary sources Fluff vs. Scripture: The problem of using ancient literary sources to date ... AD 550: a. "It is well known that the Peshito, the oldest Syriac version of the New Testament, does not contain the Apocalypse. ... This may also represent a change of his own opinion over time that the author never corrected in the earlier work. E. Acceptance ... The book has found objectors in almost every age of the Church, but has continued to hold its place in the canon (its position was never disturbed in the Western Church, and only for some two or three centuries after ... this book is the work of one John, I do not deny. And I agree also that it is the work of a holy and inspired man. But I cannot readily admit that he was the apostle, the son of Zebedee, the brother of James, by whom the Gospel of John and the Catholic ... It is interesting that today, the Orthodox church practices an autocephalous style organization and still describes their "pope" ... ... https://www.bible.ca/revelation/ | 79% Size: 3.0M Depth: 7 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | "Seventh-day Adventism Renounced" by D. M. Canright, 1914 ... Whatever these new interpreters say it means, all their members must accept as true without further question. Dare a Catholic dispute the ... are not plain enough on this point to prove it; hence we have to rely upon Catholic authority which says it was made in New Testament times. ... This epistle was highly prized in the earliest churches, read in some of them as part of scripture, and is found in the oldest manuscript of ... book, I was struck with the fact that Elder Andrews, all through his book had to oppose and combat the teachings of all these early fathers! ... a simple, historical FACT, viz: that the early Christians did keep Sunday, hence it could not have started with the popes centuries later. ... The New York Independent says of it: "By all odds the most important writing exterior to the New Testament." Professor D.R. Dungan, President ... says: "In these works Justin professes to present the system of doctrine held by all Christians and seeks to be orthodox on all points. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-Seventh-day-Adventism-RENOUNCED-by-D-M-Canright.htm | 77% Size: 749K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | The Church organization and counsels did not give the world the ... The Roman Catholic Church did not give the world the Bible! A conservative, bible believing perspective! God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. ... The Roman Catholic Church did not give the world the Bible! Go to: "Canon of the Bible" Home Page The Roman Catholic Church did not give the world the Bible! Introduction: 1. The claim of Roman Catholic and Orthodox leaders that they gave the world the Bible, is as outrageous as it is blasphemous. 2. We invite Roman Catholics and Orthodox to read out "Questions" section. I. Discussion: The councils of the church played little part in the canonization of scripture. When ... canon is a recognition and acknowledgment of books that were authoritative from earlier periods on, not a creation of the fourth-century church. (Lee Martin McDonald, ... In establishing the Canon, the Church authorities of the second and succeeding centuries only subsequently ratified the decisions which had already been reached by the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-church-did-not-give-world-bible.htm | 77% Size: 15K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | Sola Scriptura proven from the Bible! Irrefutable proof texts ... ... "How could 2 Timothy 3:16 teach the all-sufficiency of scripture, when several New Testament books were not even written yet?" Click to View CLICK HERE Click to ... Orthodox don't ask you what you think scripture says, they just tell you how their church interprets it and you have no choice but to accept what they tell you. ... it was Jesus, yet he chose the only safe and sure way to defeat Satan: Scripture. We just with that the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches held scripture alone in the same high regard! ... book; but 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. (John 20:30-31) E. Scripture alone is all-sufficient for complete hope, joy and assurance of salvation without any oral tradition: For whatever was written in earlier ... Notice also that God knew that Revelation was the last book of the 66 book canon and that the warning not to add or take away from scripture is at the very end ... ... https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-proof-texts.htm | 74% Size: 25K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | Debate with Catholic on Sola Scriptura (Riggs Vs Lopez) ... They do not authorize other standards of authority. Michael Lopez, Catholic, first Denial Opening Statements By Michael Lopez The ... This reflects Jesus earlier teaching: "He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects ... If Christ saw that future generations would only be bound by scripture, why in the four gospels did he never commission his apostles to write a thing? He commissioned all his apostles to teach orally. Only in the book of Revelation did Jesus tell anybody to write (Rev. 1:19), and the canonicity of that book was in doubt for centuries, ... I ask my opponent, using the New Testament, what is the New Testament, and what is the basis for deciding what it is? Since the ... There is no way for him to escape the canon of tradition." Neither is there a list of contents of the Old Testament. On this count ... argues that since one of its councils in 390 selected the sacred books, one can accept them only on the basis of its authority. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-debate-riggs-lopez.htm | 73% Size: 166K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | Bible Prophecy Fulfilled "Forerunners" Rev 19:11-19 Hebrews 6:19-20 View outline Moses as a type of Paul "Scripture writers of the canon" 2 Corinthians 3 View outline Moses as a type of ... These texts can be used as a proof of God's foreknowledge by causing two historical events centuries apart to mirror one another. The two historic ... and was the one used by used by Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Old Testament prophets and inspired New Testament writers. d. The clearest examples of Midrashic Hermeneutic method are the Gospel of Matthew, Paul's writings and especially the book of Hebrews (written by Paul). e. ... Most Messianic prophecies become obvious only after the fact of fulfillment. d. Some Christians only accept messianic prophecies that are clearly ... Instrumental music was banned in all first century Jewish synagogues and the Orthodox church has practiced acappella worship without instruments from Pentecost down to the present. The Roman Catholic church introduced instrumental music in AD 790 in one church, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/welcome.htm | 73% Size: 178K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | Personal Evangelism 101 ... all the human religious innovations of the centuries and simply restore the New Testament church. Although they discarded many of the practices of the Catholic church, they also retained many doctrines and practices which are not taught in the Bible and were not historically a part of the New Testament church. ... teaches and can never have the right to be treated as "holy writ" of Divinely-inspired Scripture. The Catholic Church denies that the Bible alone is enough. ... They turn to their councils and traditions first and the Bible second. See chart # 2. The Greek Orthodox Catholic Church has its own creed book called the Divine Liturgy. Like the Roman Catholic Church, they too exalt human creeds. Luther himself wrote two creed books: the Longer and Shorter Catechisms. We are asked to accept not only the Bible but Luther's opinions as ... This is not the example given to us in the Old and New Testament passages quoted earlier. Should we assume that the New Testament church is right and any ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-brent-hunters-evangelism-101.htm | 72% Size: 450K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | Sabbath and Sunday in Early Christianity: Dr. David W. T. Brattston was to be observed, how they were to be observed, whether the Old Testament rules for the Sabbath were still binding, whether Sunday replaced ... Although we may doubt that this Letter is inspired or scripture or even apostolic, it does witness to an early date for Christians observing ... Tertullian probably wrote On Idolatry in his earlier, "catholic" period, when he was a member of the mainline or "Great Church", between AD 198 and the ... While Tertullian wrote more about Christian topics in the Latin language than anyone before Augustine two centuries later, Origen wrote more ... Another Gnostic book, the famous Gospel of Thomas 27, in the second half of the second century or earlier also inculcated "fasting as to the ... On Modesty 5. This was in a violent attack against the orthodox, mainstream, church after he had joined a narrow, rigorous, sect. ... The papal argument ran that if Protestants accept one Roman innovation, they are logically compelled to accept them all, and thus yield to ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/H-sunday-sabbath-and-sunday-in-early-christianity-before-400AD-DavidW.T.Brattston.htm | 72% Size: 60K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | Apostate church organization: 150-250AD: The rise of the single ... ... A bishop in the later sense [an office distinct from elder] nowhere appears within the New-Testament horizon." (Henry C. Sheldon, History ... than are anywhere else found in the literature of the first three centuries, calling him the "sovereign pontiff, the bishop of bishops." ... the Churches ... by means of the successions of the bishops (Irenaeus, Chapter II.-The Heretics Follow Neither Scripture Nor Tradition ... ... adjoining had assembled in Miletus" (Irenaeus Against Heresies, book 3, Chapter XIV.-If Paul Had Known Any Mysteries) 250 AD Ignatius: ... They purport to be written by Ignatius, who lived about 110 AD. We believe it is clear, however, that they are all no earlier than 220 AD, ... and Orthodox simply cannot accept that all of Ignatius writings are forgeries. He is their "organizational and hierarchical savior"! They desperately need Ignatius. The Bible doesn't help them. No other post-apostolic writer before 200 AD helps them. Remember, even Roman Catholic and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-150-250AD.htm | 71% Size: 54K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | Is the RC church infallible and unable to make errors? ... There is no reason or Scripture to support the claim that a continuous, unbroken succession of Christians is necessary to acceptable ... Some generations, however, abandoned error and turned back to the Word of God. A good example is when the book of the Lord was found in ... Their task was once and for all completed for they gave us the written New Testament of Christ. The responsibility of the church today ... and blindly accept them. Following are some examples of such changes in the Catholic Church: "Baptism took place by immersion in ancient times." (New Interpretation of the Mass, p. 120). "Catholics admit that immersion brings out more fully the meaning of the sacrament, and that for twelve centuries it was the common ... We are taught in God's holy Word that we must follow the laws of the Lord without change or variation (Gal. 1:6-9; Rev. 22:18-19). When ... rapidly." (Legislation on the Sacraments in the New Code of Canon Law, p. 72). "When all fear of persecution had passed away, and ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-church-infallible.htm | 71% Size: 51K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | Greek Scroll Twelve minor prophets Nahal Hever 50 BC: Septuagint ... ... Their cities are laid waste, Without a man, without an inhabitant. "I said, 'Surely you will revere Me, Accept instruction.' ... In all cases but one, the changes that appear in 8HevXIIgr may be explained not as a variation in the Hebrew Vorlage of the ... into the LXX shortly thereafter.17 The prologue to the book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus), which was written in the late ... It is possible, of course, that the codices of the fourth and fifth centuries a.d. incorporate some post-Hellenistic modifications affecting the gemstones named, but at present there is no reason to think this happened." (Old Testament Gemstones: A ... the middle of the 3rd century until the 1st century BCE. The remaining Scripture books were translated at different times. ... of the 2nd century BCE, we may infer that most of them were translated in the beginning of that century or somewhat earlier. ... prophets Greek scroll shows us that the Canon of the Old Testament was fully established long before the time of Christ. a. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/bible-manuscripts-Septuagint-twelve-Greek-Minor-prophets-scroll-Nahal-Hever-Bar-Kochba-Cave-of-Horrors-letters-Dodekapropheton-Greek-8HevXIIgr-50BC.htm | 71% Size: 120K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | Seven Myths Of Denominationalism! ... For that reason they are accepting, practicing and teaching many false doctrines that were inherited from the Roman Catholic church or that ... that this is still a mystery (hidden) to all those who do not accept the full gospel of Jesus Christ.] The myth that the bible is too ... Again, the apostle Paul instructing the younger Timothy (2 Tim. 3:16-17): All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable ... This theme recurs throughout the New Testament, and it is critical to our salvation that we know and understand what produces faith. We will ... in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the ... with each member practicing religion through the local congregation, each could teach its own variation of the conditions of salvation. ... of the previous chapter we see that the "they" here is the apostles, the very same as Jesus had repeated the promise to a few days earlier. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/r-7-myths-of-denominationalism.htm | 70% Size: 542K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | Gifts ceased: Encyclopedia of Pentecostal objections and their ... ... If this view is correct, then the NT would or should contain many more books, especially books from other centuries, besides the First ... This is a powerful statement about the all-sufficiency of scripture. The problem with this interpretation is twofold. First, "face to ... Moses was the one who had written down the Word of God, and whether he used earlier records or not is immaterial. Through his ministry ... and all-sufficiency of revelation before the completed canon. "But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of ... There is no compelling reason based upon internal evidence within the book to date the book of James before 1 Corinthians. Yet, the old testament law was called perfect! "The law of the ... that there was no fixed canon until the 5th century, when the Catholic church graciously gave the world, for the first time, the Bible! ... the supernatural gifts, that brought about unity in Corinth! Today we have division because people won't accept the Bible's -authority. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-ceased-pentecostal-arguments-refuted.htm | 70% Size: 50K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 27: | Acapella Responsive Singing, No Instruments in first century ... brought into church worship was in 670 AD in Rome and it was the direct cause of the great split of 1054 AD between the Roman Catholic church and the Orthodox. a. ... I will call upon the Lord g. Unto thee Lord, do I lift up my soul A. Old Testament Temple worship used instrumental music: 1. "Also in the ... Songs of Ascents which are in the Book of Psalms [Ps. 120-134].- on these the Levites stand with their instruments and sing their song. ... up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your ... Vol. 106, p78, 1980 AD) 2. "They sent word to Mar Uqba, "How on the basis of Scripture do we know that it is forbidden to sing?" ... north shore of the Sea of Galilee was familiar with the format and listened curiously to the Nazarene's own variation on the poetic form. ... and the spectacles of the Roman colosseum, continued for several centuries (Werner IDB 3: 469). (ABD, Music, Volume 4, Page 934) 5. "The ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Acapella-responsive-singing-non-instrumental-first-century-early-Christian-Church-New-Testament-worship-prototype-ancient-Synagogue-ritual-liturgy-worship.htm | 70% Size: 265K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 28: | The Samaritans: 720 BC The pagan half-Jews of the Old Testament ... ... us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."" (2 Kings ... Dates suggested for the breach have varied between the fifth and first centuries B.C.; but the majority opinion has favored the latter part of ... (The Cambridge History of the Bible, Shemaryahu Talmon, The Old Testament Text, p 123, 1970 AD) e. "The manuscript most venerated by the ... the scroll to 1065 c.e., a significant portion of modern research dates the scroll to no earlier than the middle of the twelfth century c.e. ... of the Septuagint simply could not accept that Ezra had corrupted the Torah which originally said that Joshua's alter was built on Mt. ... Some changes were irrelevant in the overall picture b. Replicated scripture into new locations: i. Some changes were mere additions of Bible ... Gerizim instead of Jerusalem as the Bible says. Historically, the orthodox Jews who lived in Jerusalem began to claim that the "Mt. Gerizim" ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-samaritans.htm | 70% Size: 218K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 29: | Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal and the Lead Curse Tablet ... a Bible skeptic to a Bible believer. We suggest that he go all the way and accept the Bible's date of 1406 BC when Joshua built his altar. ... Four-letter spelling of YHWH: i. The common four-letter spelling "YHWH" used over 6500 times in scripture is also used in the Moabite/Mesha ... The restriking was probably done after Jannaeus' death, during the reign of Queen Salome Alexandra (76-67 B.C.)." (Dictionary of New Testament ... Ebal curse tablet was inscribed with and Iron stylus on lead just as confirmed by the book of Job, where the story dates to the Early Bronze ... determined was abandoned around 1150 BC, dating the curse tablet earlier than 1150 BC. b. Zertal discovered a scarab of Thutmoses III at Mt. ... who say that scribes wrote different portions of Pentateuch centuries apart and that the Pentateuch as we have it today, did not exist ... One is at Shechem (Modern Nabulus) and one near Jericho and Gilgal. This is because the Orthodox Jews had created a new location near Jericho ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-altar-of-joshua.htm | 70% Size: 538K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 30: | List of books in the Christian Bible, Roman Catholic Bible, Greek ... List of books in the Christian Bible Vs. the Roman Catholic Bible Vs. the Greek Orthodox Bible A conservative, bible believing perspective! God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. God, not men decided the canon. This providence does not mean that church leaders were inspired in their selecting the canon, only that God had his eye on the scriptures the whole time and brought ... Christians, Roman Catholics and Greek Orthodox all have the same 27 books in the New Testament and the same 39 books in the Old Testament. The only difference is the apocrypha, a collection of uninspired writings written during the "silent centuries" (400 BC - 27 AD) Christians reject the ... So the Catholic argument that "the apocryphal books cannot be rejected as uninspired on the basis that they are never quoted from in the New Testament because Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon are also never quoted in the New Testament, and we all accept them as ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-orthodox-catholic-christian-bible-books.htm | 69% Size: 31K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 31: | Seder Olam Rabbah modern Jewish calendar English pdf free online ... P. Tanner, Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 166, 2009 AD) d. "Even earlier, the author of Seder Olam (attributed to Yose) thought that ... The old Testament is ambiguous as to how old Terah was at the birth of Abraham, but the inspired Stephen cleared it up in Acts ... of Christ in 3 April 33 AD but Premillennialists refuse to accept this. 3. What is so incredibly, unspeakably ironic about ... Numerous church fathers testify to the lengths to which orthodox Judaism went to discredit Jesus' Messianic office, a phenomenon also recorded throughout the book of Acts. Justin Martyr says that the Rabbis deliberately expunged ... from the words of Scripture, the deliberate corruption of the primeval chronology easily falls within the realm of possibility. ... Jewish Revolt in a.d. 135, but in the second and third centuries the city became an important center of Jewish rabbinical study. ... OT Textual Variants Messianic expectation 300 OT quotes in NT Canon of the Bible Chronology Charts Seder Olam Rabbah Steve Rudd, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Seder-Olam-Rabbah-full-text-PDF-Free-Online-Chronology-modern-Jewish-calendar-Textual-variants-Bible-manuscripts-Old-Testament-Torah-Tanakh-Rabbinical-Judaism-160AD.htm | 69% Size: 559K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 32: | Early Christian faith on Trinity, deity of Christ, personality ... ... been present since the beginning of the Gospel, before even the earlier heretics" ... "And at the same time the mystery of the ... he [Callistus] excommunicated Sabellius, as not entertaining orthodox opinions" (Refutation of All Heresies 9:7). 200 AD Hippolytus ... who is the image, of God, God Himself." (Origen Against Celsus, book 8, chapter 12, 225 AD) 235 AD Novatian 235 AD Novatian "For ... [of the kind in the previous quotation] . . . since the divine Scripture, not so much of the Old as also of the New Testament, everywhere shows Him to be born of the Father, by whom all ... And thus neither was the Son ever wanting to the Father, nor the Spirit to the Son; but without variation and without change, the same ... And neither is the Holy Spirit nonexistent but actually exists and has true being. Less than these the Catholic Church does not hold, ... that the same one is both Father and Son" (Tome of Damasus, canon 2). 382 AD Council of Rome "If anyone does not say that the Son ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-trinity.htm | 69% Size: 122K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 33: | Bible texts taught Sola Scriptura and the all-sufficiency of ... scripture, when several New Testament books were not even written yet?" "No Orthodox Christian would deny that Paul's affirmation of the inspiration of the Scriptures (2 Timothy 3:16) applies to the New Testament by extension. However, at the time Paul wrote to Timothy-and for almost three centuries thereafter-there was no official New Testament canon. Indeed, at that point, not all of the books of the New Testament had even been written. If Paul were asserting the sole sufficiency of the Scriptures (i.e. the Old Testament), it would obviate the need for the New Testament." (THE WAY: What Every Protestant Should Know About the Orthodox Church, Clark Carlton, 1997, p 122) Click to View Refutation of the false Roman Catholic and Orthodox argument: "How ... According to this Roman Catholic and Orthodox argument, the only way God could state by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that scripture is all-sufficient, is if it was the very last verse of the very last book written in the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-anti-refuted-2-timothy-3-16-canon.htm | 68% Size: 5K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 34: | Irrefutable questions that Roman Catholics can't answer Click to View "Roman Catholic Examined" Home Page Click to View "Orthodox Church Examined" Home Page Click to View Return to "Canon of the Bible" Home Page Questions for Catholics and Orthodox: If the Roman Catholic church gave the world the Bible, being infallible, then why did Rome reject or question the inspiration of James and Hebrews , then later accept it? Conversely, Rome accepted as scripture books that were later rejected. If the Catholic church really is illuminated by the Holy Spirit so that men ... Why did God fail to provide an inspired and infallible list of Old Testament books to Israel? Why would God suddenly provide such a list only after Israel was destroyed in 70 AD? How could the Jews know that books of Kings or Isaiah were ... The Flesh of Christ, ch 20), (Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word, 56), (Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity, Book 1, 35), (Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity, Book 7, 16) If each individual possessing a copy of the scriptures is an ... ... https://www.bible.ca/catholic-questions.htm | 67% Size: 23K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 35: | Earliest evidence for the New Testament canon ... It is quite amazing, but the New Testament breaks with the Old Testament tradition of using scrolls and used book form (codex) right from the very beginning. 3. That books were ... 4 gospels, Paul's letters etc., Catholic epistles, Revelation. 6. Formulation Of the Titles: a. The titles (ie. Gospel according to Matthew, etc.) were added at a later date by those who compiled the letters into one volume. b. Although the titles are not inspired, the fact that all the manuscripts employ the same titles for each book, strongly argues for an early and unified canon of scripture. c. "In view of the unanimity on ... Thus it is entirely possible to possess scriptures without having a canon, and this was in fact the situation in the first few centuries of the Christian church. (Lee Martin McDonald, ... III. Roman Catholic and Orthodox confuse the issue: 1. False claims by Catholic and Orthodox church leaders like James Bernstein: "The second big surprise came when I realized that the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-earliest-evidence.htm | 66% Size: 27K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 36: | Which Old Testament text did Jesus prefer and quote from? Which Old Testament text did Jesus prefer and quote from? Septuagint or Hebrew Tanakh? Go to: "Canon of the Bible" Home Page How Jesus quoted the Old Testament. Which Old Testament text did Jesus prefer and quote ... also never quoted in the New Testament, and we all accept them as inspired." The rebuttal to this Catholic argument is that "Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther" were always included in the "history collection" of Jewish books and "Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon" were always included in the "poetry collection". By quoting one book from the collection, it verifies the entire collection. None of the apocryphal books were ever quoted in the New Testament. Not even once! This proves the Catholic and Orthodox apologists wrong when they try to defend the apocrypha in the Bible. ... Lee Martin McDonald, James A. Sanders, Editors: The Canon Debate; Craig A. Evans, The Scriptures of Jesus and His Earliest Followers, p 191-194, 2002 Did Jesus Recognize a Specific Text of Scripture? Did Jesus ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-jesus-favored-old-testament-textual-manuscript.htm | 66% Size: 32K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 37: | Sola Scriptura: Scripture tells us John wrote the fourth Gospel ... The fact that Matthew, Mark, Luke, Hebrews and most of the Old Testament books do not tell us who actually wrote them is not a proof of the need for oral tradition. It ... What difference does it make if we did not know for sure who wrote the fourth gospel. No one knows for sure who wrote the book of Hebrews and it makes no difference. Hebrews, for example was universally ascribed to Paul in the east (orthodox church), while the west (Roman Catholic) put forth several other possible ... Actually, the earliest tradition clearly states that Paul wrote the book of Hebrews. For the Roman Catholic church to not accept this universal and earliest tradition, ... 27 book canon. They claim that Rome determined Hebrews was inspired, yet never could say for certain who wrote the book. If knowing who wrote the fourth gospel is so important, they why is knowing who wrote Hebrews any less important? B. Apostle John wrote the fourth gospel: "The disciple whom Jesus loved = John" Scripture does not ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-pro-tradition-beloved-disciple-john.htm | 66% Size: 7K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 38: | Acceptance of the "disputed" NT books: Hebrews, 2 Peter, James ... The majority of New Testament books were universally accepted by about 100 AD, but it appears that a small number of books were "disputed". Go to: "Canon of the ... Introduction: Disputed books: Hebrews, 2 Peter, James, 2 John, 3 John, Revelation. By "disputed", we mean that some geographic regions accepted the book, while others recognized it, but did not view it on the same level as the accepted New Testament books. While some geographic areas had always accepted these books as scripture, others ... In addition to the Revelation of John, it also includes the Apocalypse of Peter. Certain books remained problematic for centuries. Hebrews remained controversial ... In the West, the New Testament canon was not settled until the Council of Carthage in A.D. 397." (THE WAY: What Every Protestant Should Know About the Orthodox ... to determine, can be proved always to have included James in the Canon along with a number of other Catholic Epistles on a basis of equal authority with the rest. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-disputed-books.htm | 66% Size: 21K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 39: | Sola Scriptura: All-sufficient: The Bible alone is a blueprint ... ... 100% oral because none of the New Testament was written. Then from 50 - 100 AD scripture was completed. Finally from 100 AD to the second coming our final authority is the scriptures. God's whole plan was to start with inspired oral revelation, then part oral, part scripture, and finally when scripture was complete, it became the ... Today oral tradition is utterly worthless since the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches both claim they are the right oral tradition, yet they differ so greatly in doctrine, that they are not even "in ... However, at the time Paul wrote to Timothy-and for almost three centuries thereafter-there was no official New Testament canon. Indeed, at that point, not all of the books of the New Testament had even been written. If Paul were asserting the sole ... Paul is referring here to the court magicians of Pharaoh. (Ex. 7:11-12). Notice, however, that the Book of Exodus does not provide the name of the magicians. Where, then, does Paul get the names ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-all-sufficient-blueprint.htm | 65% Size: 15K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 40: | 4 Competing Views of Church Organization organization today Click to View True Bible organization today Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church in your own home town. ... As soon as you accept the Nicene council, you leave the barn door open for wild apostasy. All human creeds are to be rejected, even if they are correct, because they compete with the authority of the Bible. If you think this is not true, take note that both the Catholic and Orthodox churches reject "Sola Scriptura" and openly admit that the Bible is not enough ... Let us get back to the simple organization that God ordained in scripture! The Catholic position: Peter was designated by Christ be the "universal bishop" ... local churches, then the trends towards centralization at produced the Patriarchal system of the 4th and 5th centuries and finally the Papal monarchy. ... of the Christian world." (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, book 3, ch 5) "The apostolical organization of the first century now gives place ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-perspective.htm | 65% Size: 11K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 41: | Sola Scriptura: The rock of the wilderness that followed them ... We take the view that the tradition itself of a rock that followed them, grew out of their interpretation of scripture, not the other way around. We believe the scripture produced the tradition. The idea that God is the "Rock of salvation" is a major theme in the Old Testament specifically ... Notice the variation in the verbal traditions of the Jews. Some traditions state that "the rock" was the literal rock, while others said it was "the water", not the rock that followed. Others still believe it is a reference to a stationary well, "Miriam's Well". If we are to accept that a literal rock followed them, the ... This certainly is possible, but gives no help to Roman Catholic and Orthodox defenders of oral tradition because the oral tradition itself in this case was filled with fable and contradictions. A. ... The enemies following behind perish, as past sins are put away." (Augustine-Anti-Manichaean Writings, Book 12, 29) C. Commentators and sources: The old Jewish legend relates that ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-pro-tradition-christ-rock-followed-1-cor-10-4.htm | 65% Size: 14K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 42: | Criteria used by apostolic fathers to determine canon. A conservative, bible believing perspective! God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. God, not men decided ... The fact that the authorship of Hebrews was strongly questioned, yet it made it into the New Testament canon, suggests that churches were ... While most New Testament writings were known and used by most of the churches in Eusebius's day, doubt lingered over others. These "disputed" ... Notice for example, how Eusebius acknowledges wide acceptance of 1 John, but is reluctant to accept 2 and 3 John and Revelation. For him, the ... Editors: The Canon Debate; Lee Martin McDonald, Identifying Scripture and Canon in the Early Church: The Criteria Question, p 432, 2002) ... Barton, however, challenges the traditional view, noting that in the first two centuries Christians generally referred to their own writings ... judge according to the following standard: to prefer those that are received by all the catholic churches to those which some do not receive. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-criteria-of-apostolic-fathers.htm | 65% Size: 17K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 43: | Fortman, Edmund: The Triune God Watchtower Deception exposed Although they identify Fortman as a Catholic, they project the false impression that Fortman either rejects trinity, or that he is willing to accept trinity without any Bible support for the doctrine. The Watchtower is a master at "the slight of hand" technique in quoting from orthodox trinitarian sources. Documentation of selective Quoting that misleads: How the Watchtower quoted the source What they left out to deliberately misrepresent the source and deceive you: "The New Testament writers . . . ... Father is in the Son,' 'the Father sends the Son,' In the following centuries when heretics rise up to contest the divinity of the Son or of the Holy ... The book of Acts so often attributes personal activities to the Holy Spirit as to leave a vivid impression that its author regarded the Holy Spirit as ... investigation of the content of the faith. by its leaning to the philosophy of Plato, and an allegorical interpretation of sacred Scripture. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Fortman.htm | 65% Size: 76K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 44: | The Septuagint, LXX, origin, textual transmission 282 BC ... Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." (Revelation ... Septuagint (LXX) Greek Masoretic (MT) Aramaic Hebrew Samaritan (SP) Paleo-Hebrew Jesus is the Messiah because Scripture Cannot Be broken 6 Old Testament Manuscripts 300 Old Testament quotes in NT Jewish Messianic expectation Canon of the Bible Bible Chronology Charts Seder Olam Rabbah Chronological History of Bible Manuscripts ... represents the trinity as Father, Mary, Jesus based upon the fact that heretical sects of Christians living in Arabia worshipped Mary AND the ubiquitous "Mariolatry" of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches at the time. ... Further, we find EXACTLY the same type of variation in the Gospels or in Paul's letters to the Ephesians and Colossians. Finally, the LXX and MT versions of Jeremiah do not contradict each other in any details. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/septuagint.htm | 65% Size: 161K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 45: | Development from the trinity as taught in the Bible and the trinity ... How can Jw's reject "doctrinal development" of the first 3 centuries yet teach they have the doctrinal development in the 20th century? JW's ... But for Jw's the rejection of Catholic doctrinal development, while teaching the identical thing themselves, is typical of the wild ... This slight of hand tactic is missed by most first time readers (and all JW's) of their book of deceptions, it is quite obvious to the true ... When the Watchtower says, "trinity is not EXPLICITY taught in the New Testament", they are right and all Trinitarians would agree! The key ... But the Biblical trinity (uncreated deity of Christ and personality of the Holy Spirit) are taught in the scripture. The Watchtower will quote ... and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian pattern and the practice of baptism into the threefold name of God. By the close of the fourth century the orthodox teaching was in place: God is one nature, three ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-development.htm | 64% Size: 17K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 46: | Book of Jeremiah: Bible textual variants analysed The key point is that both the longer and shorter books of Jeremiah not only co-existed, they were considered equally authoritative as inspired scripture. The three ... Further, we find EXACTLY the same type of variation in the Gospels or in Paul's letters to the Ephesians and Colossians. Finally, the LXX and MT versions of Jeremiah do ... represents a different edition or recension in the history of a biblical book." (The Text of the Old Testament, Peter J. Gentry, Journal Of The Evangelical Theological Society, 52/1, p38, March 2009) II. Examining the orthodox view that Jeremiah write only one copy: 1. If Jeremiah wrote only one version of ... The shorter form may represent an earlier recension of Jeremiah" (Tov 1981b). III. Dead Sea Scroll 4Q71 validates the Septuagint: 1. Here is the full Bible text of: ... Masoretic (MT) Research Tools OT Textual Variants Messianic expectation 300 OT quotes in NT Canon of the Bible Chronology Charts Seder Olam Rabbah Steve Rudd, November ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Book-of-Jeremiah-Bible-Manuscript-Textual-Variants-Old-Testament-Tanakh-Septuagint-LXX-Masoretic-Text-MT-scribal-gloss-copying-error.htm | 64% Size: 79K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 47: | Is the Catholic church an infallible interpreter of scripture ... ... "What Catholics do believe is that the church, not the individual, must interpret and explain Christ's teaching, including those set forth in the Bible. Christians outside the Catholic fold do not of course accept ... "But in those times the faithful did not attempt to interpret scripture for themselves. For the Jewish people in the pre-Christian era, the synagogue was their voice of scriptural authority; and the Old Testament was preached to them by the Rabbis and fathers of their faith. In like manner, the Catholic Church was the custodian of the inspired writings of the New Testament Gospel nearly four centuries before these writings were collected into a single book and formally declared to be inspired. "Today Catholics listen to one authoritative voice--the ... of them issued nearly nine thousand. "Alexander III is said to have issued thirty-nine hundred and thirty-nine decrees and Innocent II over five thousand." (General Legislation in the New Code of Canon Law, p. 42). ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-bible-church-interpreter.htm | 64% Size: 51K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 48: | Apostate church organization: 250-451AD: The rise of the diocesan ... organization today Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church in your own home town. Click to View Bartholomew Orthodox, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch ... Now you have bishops over bishops. Interesting, the Roman Catholic church later simplified its organization to only three levels, so that all bishops were ... Likewise in Antioch and the other provinces, let the Churches retain their privileges. (The First Ecumenical Council of Nice, Canon VI, 325 AD) Click to ... only primacy accorded to the Roman bishop in the first three centuries was a primacy of honor, or a certain precedence as regards the respect rendered. ... traditional rights." (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, book 3, chapter 5) "Accordingly, though not yet even baptized, he [Constantine ... people; but on the other hand, with genuine tact (though this was in his earlier period, a.d. 314), kept aloof from the Donatist controversy, and referred ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-250-451AD.htm | 64% Size: 52K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 49: | The Ignatian Forgeries: They claim to be written by Ignatius ... They purport to be written by Ignatius, who lived about 110 AD. We believe it is clear, however, that they are all no earlier than 220 AD, more likely 250 AD. Although they are ... Now of course, Roman Catholics and Orthodox simply cannot accept that all of Ignatius writings are forgeries. He is their "organizational and hierarchical savior"! They desperately need Ignatius. The Bible doesn't help them. No other post-apostolic writer before 200 AD helps them. Remember, even Roman Catholic and Orthodox scholars agree with us: "In the New Testament, the terms bishop and presbyter are used interchangeably. This is ... In fact, if it could be proven that any of Ignatius' letters are genuine, we could still dismiss Ignatius as "unorthodox" when compared to the record of scripture and the historical ... his introduction to the last-named work with the following sentences: "Exactly three centuries and a half intervened between the time when three Epistles in Latin, attributed to St. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/history-ignatius-forgeries-250AD.htm | 64% Size: 30K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 50: | Rylands, John: Bulletin of The John Rylands Library ... What he means by this is far more than Jehovah's Witnesses could accept. Boobyer said: "Jesus himself may not have claimed any of the Christological titles ... Boobyer is a modernist Bible-trasher! There are many plain indications that Boobyer rejects the inspiration of scripture, but here is the most obvious: "So far ... deal with evidence requiring special attention in any reappraisal of New Testament Christology. Section 1: Aloys Grillmeier's valuable book entitled Christ in Christian Tradition (1965) has an epilogue headed " Chalcedon--End or Beginning? " Hem this learned Roman Catholic scholar reminds us that, react as we will to the Christological ... Put more precisely, do we not find the orthodox doctrine of the person of Christ a source of much perplexity to inquiring non-Christians and to many a Christian ... Moreover, the three centuries following the New Testament period saw this concern for an ontological interpretation of the person of Christ eclipsing and ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Rylands.htm | 64% Size: 46K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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