Protestant Pickle #2

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In Gen 17:10 it tells us We must Circumcise Males and that this is the covenant that we must do

“This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you that YOU MUST keep every male among you shall be circumcised Circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and that shall be the mark of the covenant between you and me.”

If the apostles went by bible alone then Circumsision would still be a necesidy and would still be the mark of the covenant between us and God

But the aposltles and (the Church) chose that circumsision no longer the mark in fact Acts 15 they had a council about this very matter and in Col 2:11 it states, “In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, but with the circumcision of Christ. You were buried with him in baptism.”

Baptism now replace circumsision

So why did the Apostles not go by scripture alone?

If they had we would still have to keep this comandment by God
 
The response would be that the requirement of circumcision was a mosaic law, and not applicable to Gentile converts, similar to the laws which prescribed stoning to death as a punishment for such “Mosaic infractions”.

The other point was precisely what you point out; that in scripture, circumcision is no longer required as per “New Testament rules”.

So it’s not as much a matter of Sola Scriptura, but a matter of conflicting requirements within scripture.

Or is that what you’re saying? 🙂
 
Odell said:
In Gen 17:10 it tells us We must Circumcise Males and that this is the covenant that we must do

“This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you that YOU MUST keep every male among you shall be circumcised Circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and that shall be the mark of the covenant between you and me.”

If the apostles went by bible alone then Circumsision would still be a necesidy and would still be the mark of the covenant between us and God

But the aposltles and (the Church) chose that circumsision no longer the mark in fact Acts 15 they had a council about this very matter and in Col 2:11 it states, “In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, but with the circumcision of Christ. You were buried with him in baptism.”

Baptism now replace circumsision

So why did the Apostles not go by scripture alone?

If they had we would still have to keep this comandment by God
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I don’t know if I’ll be able to follow this thread so I’ll apologize up front if this is my only post. Everytime I post over the past few weeks I end up getting busy and this forum taking a back burner so I end up with a post here and there but no dialog…we’ll see what happens.

Anyway, if by “Bible alone” you mean sola scriptura than the answer is that sola scriptura wouldn’t have been the norm while the “scriptura” was being developed.

The classical position is that after the last apostle died, sola scriptura became the norm guiding the church.
 
Well it looks like the question has been answered with two good points.
Christians must always remember the audience of passages throughtout the entire Bible especially as it relates to what was applicable to Gentiles.
 
Pwrlftr said:
Anyway, if by “Bible alone” you mean sola scriptura than the answer is that sola scriptura wouldn’t have been the norm while the “scriptura” was being developed.
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Unless of course, you consider Martin Luther and his attempts to rewrite portions of the OT and rearrange the NT canon. (Out with that pesky Revelations and Catholic Letters!!)

Then there are the mormons who lifted whole chapters of Isaiah out of the KJV for their book of mormon; the JWs who like to change Scripture to fit THEIR view of Sola Scriptura.

Oh, and of course it states clearly in the Bible that the Bible is the measuring stick of all things Christian, not Jewish, but Christian. It’s in the Gospel of…no, maybe one of St Paul’s Epistles…er, Revelations?? Gee, it’s NOT in the Bible.

Just like ‘Sola Scriptura.’

Robert
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Pwrlftr said:
Kind of like the papacy, various Marian dogmas, treasury of merit, purgatory, the mass, etc.
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Wrong all the way down the line PL.

Every last one of those has a basis in scripture. You may not agree with it, but it’s there and you shouldn’t resort to frustrated rhetoric like that.

Here’s a list of MP3 Bible studies and articles that are relevant.
Apostolic Authority and the Pope
Mary & the Bible; plus Purgatory & the Bible
Reward and Merit
Is Purgatory Found in the Bible? ****“Once For All”
Is the Mass a Sacrifice?
The Apocalyptic Mass
 
Church_Militant said:
Wrong all the way down the line PL.

Every last one of those has a basis in scripture. You may not agree with it, but it’s there and you shouldn’t resort to frustrated rhetoric like that.

Here’s a list of MP3 Bible studies and articles that are relevant.
Apostolic Authority and the Pope
Mary & the Bible; plus Purgatory & the Bible
Reward and Merit
Is Purgatory Found in the Bible? ****“Once For All”
Is the Mass a Sacrifice?
The Apocalyptic Mass
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Hey CM.

Ignore my last post. The subject of the thread was sola scriptura not getting you guys to defend various beliefs.

Thanks for the links though.
 
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