(06-20-2021 08:37 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Speaking of Chirts' own directives, quoted in every christian Bible, Jesus instructed his disciples to "go out and teach everything I have taught you." He did not ever say, to go out and have them read my book. He instructed the apostles to deliver the tradition of instruction and teaching to the world, and that whatever those men bound on earth would also be bound in heaven. Therefore, Jesus gave the apostles and their successors, the church leaders, the authority to make future decisions and address future issues with the authority of God. The root of the church's authority, then, comes from Christ himslef, not from some other man who might think he knows better than Jesus. Jesus said what he said and meant what he meant. And Jesus was faithful to death...100 per cent!

That is a textbook perfect example of taking a single verse and ripping it totally out of context to support a false doctrine.

The one thing Jesus said more than any other was "Have you not read the scriptures...?" Time and time and time again Jesus chastised people and the religious leaders for not reading or knowing the scriptures.

When Jesus was tempted by Satan, His every response was to quote the WORD OF GOD, as THE WORD OF GOD. Each time Jesus was tempted He responded with "IT IS WRITTEN......."

Jesus WHOLLY and unequivocally summited Himself 100% to the scriptures as the Word of God and the final authority. He NEVER, in NO WAY ever suggested that the Apostles or any man that followed had the authority to change or create doctrine. He did not even come close to saying such a thing.

Jesus was also VERY CLEAR that every word of the Bible was authored by God Himself, not man. And He quoted the text over and over and over again as written by a man as the ETERNAL WORD OF GOD. That means when you try to argue that the Words Jesus spoke take value or authority over the rest of the Bible, you are contradicting the very thing Jesus taught and lived by. Jesus read and taught the words of Moses, David, Solomon and the prophets as the ETERNAL WORD OF GOD, not the words of men. Just as Jesus hand picked each Apostle and each man who wrote books of the NT such as Peter, Paul and John.

The words of Paul, Peter, John and the rest in the NT are just as much the ETERNAL WORD OF GOD as the words written by Moses, David, Solomon and spoken Jesus. In fact Jesus never wrote a single book of the Bible, He chose specific men out of the world to write the NT and the Gospels for Him. And their words are also the ETERNAL WORD OF GOD every much as the words written by Moses and the prophets that Jesus read and taught as the final authority.

The reason you take that single verse out of context like you did was because the rest of the NT plainly teaches that scripture ALONE is the final authority and the eternal Word of God. That is the elephant in the room here. Its an attempt to twist that verse totally out of context so you can use it to argue that we should ignore all those other verses that tell us the Bible alone is the Word of God and the final authority on doctrine.


2 Tim 3:15-17
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:


Rev 22:18-19
"I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book."

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.