Jay The Baptist

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@CatahoulaCowboy The 66 books of the Biblical canon.

I know because Christians recognized God’s Word.

Infallible knowledge is not necessary, since the Jews didn’t have it and were still accountable to Scripture.

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@CatahoulaCowboy That isn’t a point. That’s a statement.

My point was that Scripture is from God, regardless of any other authority or council declaring it so.

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@CatahoulaCowboy You didn’t make a point.

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@BishopJaxi @Connor_Shack No, Paul quite literally calls them “dead in Christ.”

Is Paul wrong?

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@BishopJaxi @Connor_Shack Your confusing categories. The saints are dead. Death is a category of mortality.

If Saul wanted to ask Samuel for help after he passed, why did he have to go through which to do so? Why not just pray to him?

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@BishopJaxi @Connor_Shack Are you rejecting what Paul says in 1 Thessalonians? That’s isn’t my language that’s Paul’s.

And regardless of what you’d like to call them, you can’t provide Scriptural evidence to show they are prayed to.

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@BishopJaxi @Connor_Shack I mean to those who are dead in Christ, as Paul described them in 1 Thessalonians.

Now answer my question.

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@BishopJaxi @Connor_Shack What on God’s green earth does that have to do with praying to the dead?

You really don’t have anything, do you?

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@BishopJaxi @Connor_Shack Sure!

And when, @BishopJaxi, do you see that happening in Scripture towards those who are dead in Christ?

Please, tell us all where it is!

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@RickWMiller1 @CatholicDrip___ This is a non sequitur.

Moses and Elijah appearing before Christ has nothing to do with prayers to the dead.

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@CatholicDrip___ You mean when Saul went to a literal witch to summon him from the dead because God didn’t answer his prayers?

Is that your argument?

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@ReformedToRome @whpub RTR, your picture directly contradicted your claim.

Nowhere in your response did you ever provide a Scriptural example of prayer to saints in heaven.

Are you suggesting such a text exists?

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@MorganCook6451 @patrickmadrid @MrCasey62 The problem with this view is that Scripture was still authoritative before any formal canonization process.

Jesus for instance held the Jews to the authority of the OT without formal canonization.

When Paul wrote his letters, they were authoritative the moment he wrote them.

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@MorganCook6451 @patrickmadrid @MrCasey62 In regards to councils, they don’t make something true/authoritative, they recognize it as such.

The trinity has always been true and evidenced in Scripture. Nicea simply recognized this.

Its authority rests in Scripture, recognized and normalized by councils.

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@CatholicDrip___ Pillars hold up the truth. They aren’t the truth itself.

And Church as used in Scripture refers to Christ’s elect people, not a specific institution.

The RC Church developed over centuries to become what it is now. Nothing of the sort existed in the time of the apostles.

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@MorganCook6451 @patrickmadrid @MrCasey62 Augustine and Jerome had disputes about the canon of Scripture.

Tell me, which one of those early church fathers had the Holy Spirit and which didn’t?

[Jay The Baptist @JayTheBap]

@amandafromtx @artoftemu No Amanda, our bodies belong to God. And so do our hearts.

Men and women were created by God for different purposes. The Lord lays that out clearly in Scripture and if you can’t learn to love and accept that, that’s an issue you have with God, not me.