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Usually, by the early church is meant either early church of the apostles, or of the apostolic fathers, or early fathers, until the Nicene Creed, thus the Church which followed the Apostolic Symbol or Creed. Also, essentially, the Christian Church which replaced the Judaic Church, thus the...

I heard about the idea of "statute of limitations", I wonder how that is applicable in such respects. Perhaps, with regard to some particular cases, when the slaves were forced to serve, and this relates to the fathers, perhaps even grandfathers, and the sons of the slave owners largely...

Thanks. There was some problem with quoting, and somehow it was messed-up, I'll try to change it now.

1. It can work, but if it is subordinated to the blind faith to the authority, tradition, loyalties and other considerations, it begins to see quite indistinctly, vaguely, almost not to see clearly at all, what it would otherwise could see clearly. But a man is able to elevate his reason above...

One thing is reading the Word, and the terms. But it is not the same as undestanding them in their context and meaning. The pride of one's intelligence, individual and collective, is not the best friend in such things especially, be it extremely limited or, subjectively, high.

You bring up a lot of interesting considerations, with many of which I agree. In the following I may repeat something of what I have already said, though in some variation. In my personal experience, the determination relates to both a man's interest in the truth for the sake of truth. - This is...

The point of it is not to spend one's time in idle debating about theoretical situation, but to try to search for the truth for oneself, and then a person will see. It is useful, of course, to have honesty and some basic of sound reason, so that a person give up before anything of common...

I spoke about it above. In simple terms: you need to find the doctrine/text/explanation, which explains the text of the Sacred Scripture soundly, rationally. But to be able to see that, you need to have at least a tiny bit of affection of truth for the sake of truth, and also some degree of...

A man has to be to able to determine it for himself, though not from his own self-intelligence or wilful passions. "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven." If it is according to the dogmatics of some church, that...

Sound question. In my view, they have to appeal to the point which interpretation better explains the Word "... 245. It is known that the church is in accordance with its doctrine, and that doctrine is from the Word; nevertheless it is not doctrine but soundness and purity of doctrine...

Ideally, which is exteremely rare, it is the truth that Lord opens to man in enlightening his mind when he reads or hears the Word (provided a man looks to the Lord Jesus Christ, and the truth that he sees agrees with the essentials of the Word, and thus is not some phantasy). How otherwise...

In my view, at least, for all I know, if a man look to the Lord God Jesus Christ, who is the "Truth", and thus the Light, and shun evils as sins against Him, it is the beginning, but there is also a need to have the loyalty to the truth itself to be higher than the position of the church of...

As to the letter, He can be considered to be building it on Peter. This is what the Roman-Catholic Church still believes in. The Orthodox departed from that to some degree, claminig essentially that the church was build on the whole clerical office. But the church is built on the confession of...

If the internal sense is not known, than it is impossible to understand many things in the Word, and besides, if the doctrines are founded on the literal sense alone, without looking to the Lord God Jesus Christ, and without having an idea about the internal sense, then the fallacious doctrines...

It normally cannot judge the internal things of one's life, thus eternal fate, that is being known to the Lord Alone, but it can judge the moral actions, and pass the verdict on those.