Shasta
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So you believe.
And Church History, give me a break.
Romans 11:25-29 was being ignored by the Church even before it was written [the reason for its writing to begin with].
The only thing I am invested in is objectivity. Read my post on the "Rightly Dividing" thread linked below. Then call me invested in this subjectivity you are talking about even as you fail to see you are the one bogged down in thinking you are being objective.
Post # 172
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4405225#post4405225
You are misrepresenting what I have said. I am not saying the Church has had correct doctrine or that it has not misrepresented a lot of facts. My focus was on the Early Apostolic Church fathers and Apologists, the three succeeding generations that followed the Apostles. There was no Catholic Church as such so there was no strong central force that had governmental power. Heretics wrote freely in those days.
If you are saying I have misrepresented something in History then say what it was and back your claims up with something more than wishful thinking. You say two gospels existed. I have yet to read even any discussion about the possibility. To a man the Church Fathers believed in the inspiration and authority of all the NT as demonstrated by how the quoted them.
The deficit in your hermeneutical method is that once you assumed the paradigm of MAD was true you began to use eisegesis to prove it. What you do not realize is the Gospel was not delivered all in an instant. The revelation took place over time. The Resurrection and all Jesus accomplished on the cross would have had no context unless Jesus had been uniquely the Son, uniquely God, perfect humanity, the Image of the Father. If He had only been human the cross could not have affected redemption. You might think it was Paul who taught righteousness and salvation came from putting our faith in Jesus but the first one who taught this was Jesus Himself. He taught men that they must believe in Him if they wanted to receive eternal life. John 3:16 has brought more people to God than perhaps any other single verse but it was spoken before the work of the cross was accomplished.
Nevertheless it was incorporated in this body of truth we call the Gospel. Yet MAD has downgraded the very words of the Savior to the status of reading that while edifying is not mandatory or applicable anymore to modern believers. Jesus' said "heaven and earth will pass away but My words will never pass away." I think He meant more than that they are historically preserved in a book we carry.