Holiness Is Still Important

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by edjen01

thank you.

interesting. what do you call the "entire Body of Christ"? Because if memory serves....there were some pretty heated debates in the first couple of councils(3rd & 4th century)...and later on as well.

history proves that nobody argues like church foke.

Even today, there is more than one canon in use by different segments of the church. (Assuming one allows all the segments that call themselves the church or part of the church to be segments of the church.)

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Even today, there is more than one canon in use by different segments of the church. (Assuming one allows all the segments that call themselves the church or part of the church to be segments of the church.)

Not really... except for the isolated Ethiopian Coptic church. The Roman Catholic Church accepts portions of the OT Apocrypha as canonical but not at the same level as the books which had "full assent" since the First Century. They recognize the historic uncertainty of this works. The fact that even the Protestant reformers behind the KJV still held a high regard for this same material and included it in the KJV shows the depths of those feelings.

Accepting uncertainty is a primary element of faith. There is uncertainty about portions of the Apocrypha. There are even more element of uncertainty about our faith. Only fundamentalists and atheists will assert absolute certainty... "birds of a feather..."

[edjen01]

[QUOTE=pelathais;916730]Not really... except for the isolated Ethiopian Coptic church. The Roman Catholic Church accepts portions of the OT Apocrypha as canonical but not at the same level as the books which had "full assent" since the First Century. They recognize the historic uncertainty of this works. The fact that even the Protestant reformers behind the KJV still held a high regard for this same material and included it in the KJV shows the depths of those feelings.

Accepting uncertainty is a primary element of faith. There is uncertainty about portions of the Apocrypha. There are even more element of uncertainty about our faith. Only fundamentalists and atheists will assert absolute certainty... "birds of a feather..."[/QUOTE]



now thats funny!!

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Not really... except for the isolated Ethiopian Coptic church.

Two is more than one.

The Roman Catholic Church accepts portions of the OT Apocrypha as canonical but not at the same level as the books which had "full assent" since the First Century. They recognize the historic uncertainty of this works. The fact that even the Protestant reformers behind the KJV still held a high regard for this same material and included it in the KJV shows the depths of those feelings.

Accepting uncertainty is a primary element of faith. There is uncertainty about portions of the Apocrypha. There are even more element of uncertainty about our faith. Only fundamentalists and atheists will assert absolute certainty... "birds of a feather..."