Are you serious or is that a joke? If you are serious, then take my word for it that I don’t understand you. The first ecumenical council was held in Nicaea in AD 325. The LDS Church was organized in 1830. That is 1500 years later. How could the “Mormons” have been “present” at that council to “object to it”?
Which were the other six ecumenical councils you are referring to?
How did the councils “give us Christology”? Christology is either biblical, and therefore true; or else it is unbiblical and untrue. The councils did not “give us christilogy”. True Christology, if there is one, can only come from the Bible, because that is where Christ and His identity has been defined. The Bible gave us Christology, not the councils.
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It is a foundation of our faith to believe that God gave Moses an oral explanation of the Torah along with the written text. This oral tradition is now essentially preserved in the Talmud and Midrashim. Just as we depend on tradition for the accepted text, vocalization, and translation of the Torah, so must we depend on tradition for its interpretation. The Written Torah cannot be understood without the oral tradition. Hence, if anything, the Oral Torah is the more important of the two. Since the Written Torah appears largely defective unless supplemented by the oral tradition, a denial of the Oral Torah necessarily leads to the denial of the divine origin of the written text as well…
2 Thess. 2:15 - Paul clearly commands us in this verse to obey oral apostolic tradition. He says stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, either by word of mouth or letter. This verse proves that for apostolic authority, oral and written communications are on par with each other. Protestants must find a verse that voids this commandment to obey oral tradition elsewhere in the Bible, or they are not abiding by the teachings of Scripture.
2 Thess. 2:15 - in fact, it was this apostolic tradition that allowed the Church to select the Bible canon (apostolicity was determined from tradition). Since all the apostles were deceased at the time the canon was decided, the Church had to rely on the apostolic tradition of their successors. Hence, the Bible is an apostolic tradition of the Catholic Church. This also proves that oral tradition did not cease with the death of the last apostle. Other examples of apostolic tradition include the teachings on the Blessed Trinity, the hypostatic union (Jesus had a divine and human nature in one person), the filioque (that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son), the assumption of Mary, and knowing that the Gospel of Matthew was written by Matthew.
scripturecatholic.com/oral_tradition.html
aish.com/literacy/concepts/The_Oral_Tradition.asp
Sent: 10/3/2007 8:32 PM Shalom-שלום_אתם Message 33 of 311
From:Shalom
While Torah is silent on the details it is loud on telling Israel that they should judge for itself how to implement the commandments. Moses delegated, there was a time we had Judges, Sannhedrin etc.
Here You Go Z - How to keep Shabbat is Man-Made
And Where is it recorded in the TORAH - Moses delegated his authority to the Sannhedrin ? Nowhere I know
While Bible is silent on the details it is loud on telling Catholics that they should judge for itself how to implement the Christs Teaching. Jesus delegated, there was a time we had Apostles, Churches etc.
Matthew 16 18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Many Catholics have heard that “kepha” is used in both places in this verse ("You are Peter [kepha] and on this rock [kepha] I will build my Church . . . "), but few have seen it with their own eyes.
So here 'tis:
jimmyakin.org/2005/04/while_were_at_i.html
Sent:10/4/2007 12:23 PM From:Shalom-שלום_אתם Message 63 of 311
I didn’t say Moses delegated authority to the Sanhedrin. Setting up governing bodies is one of the 613 mitzvot (commandments) given to Israel. Under the advice of his father in law Yitro (Jethro in English) Moses assigned governance over the tribes. He later appointed Joshua, but even so, once Torah was given, Israel knew they had to appoint governing bodies. Governance took the form of Judges, Kings (bad choice) and Sanhedrin at different periods in our history.
