Keep griping like this, just don't you dare misrepresent the word of God.
Why don't you just follow what the Bible says?
Adrian Murphy
James Green
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Owen Sanchez
Seriously? The New Testament addresses these things. Have you even read it?
Ethan Richardson
Okay so if the church councils are relevant to you, then why don't you believe in apostolic succession? If Polycarp was in The Bible then you would respect him as a spiritual authority but because he isn't you just discard what he has today. That makes no sense.
Xavier Bennett
You have to be able to distinguish between real and fake before talking about this.
1 Peter 1:23-25
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Aiden Howard
They are of no relevance to me. The only council I recognize is that of Jesus Christ himself and his Apostles. None other.
Where is Polycarp in the Bible?
Because it's not Biblical. It is so not Biblical that even your best of scholars admit that themselves.
If your own scholars and encyclopedias don't believe it why should I?
Carter Price
Thatvwas fulfilled in the NT
Because it's in scripture
So then it's still sola scriptua
Yes they are.
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Dominic Diaz
Paul explicitly, emphatically, repeatedly, says don't get circumcised, yet it's the sola scriptura crowd that does it the most.
Gavin Hall
Paul says circumcision is of no spiritual benefit. Circumcision spread in the US because it was wrongly believed to have health benefits. It's becoming popular in the US was not for any religious reasons whatsoever.
Jacob Martin
Hebrews 8:7,13 KJV
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. [13] In that he saith, A new covenant , he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
This, Jesus making the animals clean and the parable of the wine bottles (where you can't store new wine in an old bottle) to me are meant to symbolize the fact that Jesus fulfilled the old covenant, replacing the older "earthly" covenant for a newer, better, more "heavenly" covenant.