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To: Stan who wrote (33645)	10/19/2002 3:59:38 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

"Whether you can take a verse literally in good conscience is not material to truth, since your conscience is not the final arbiter of truth.." And neither is yours! The arbiter of sacred truth is the scriptures coupled with the teachings of the early Church fathers( those ordained by the Apostles to carry on the work of Jesus' Church). Christ gave authority to the Apostles and they in turn exercised that spiritual authority by choosing and ordaining disciples to carry on both the authority and work of the Christ's Church. It was these ordained and anointed leaders of the early Church who finally established the canon of scripture. All Trinitarian Christians accept the authority of these early Church leaders in canonizing scriptures. Now if the Holy Spirit operated within these God-chosen leaders to establish what is the measure of divine revelation, then it follows that these leaders also had the authority to interpret these scriptures. Most of the doctrinal problems that modern Christians wrestle with today were resolved centuries ago by the ancient Church. An ignorance of Church History (and secular history) coupled with a "Protestant" fear of giving credibility to the Orthodox and Roman Churches prevents many dispensationalists and Zionist Christians from drawing from their sacred Christian roots. Jesus promised that 'the gates of hell would not prevail against his Church", and it hasn't. In every century and every era, the Holy Spirit has worked equally is propagating and advancing the Kingdom of God --Body of Christ. ("The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost")