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To: Stan who wrote (33653)	10/19/2002 6:07:32 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

"This is the very thing the Jews did with their Talmud." At first glance, this looks like a logical statement, but when examined carefully, we find fundamental differences between the authority of the Church leaders (Apostles and their successors) and the rabbis who wrote the Talmud. First of all, the Church leaders, the Apostles, were chosen by Jesus and given authority through the Holy Spirit to choose their successors. The rabbis who wrote the Talmud had rejected Jesus and consequently had no authority to write down "oral laws" and then claim that these laws were passed down from Moses in an unbroken chain to the rabbis. There is no historical or biblical records of these so-called "divine oral laws" given to Moses on Mt. Sinai. Like Mohammad in the Koran, we have only the words of the rabbis in the Talmud itself. In clear contrast to the eyewitness historical records in the New Testament, neither Mohammad nor the rabbis provide any historical or biblical proof for their inventions in the Koran and Talmud. The Apostles and their successors (Church Fathers) had a clear biblical and historically based authority and more importantly God had empowered the Church with the Holy Spirit. It was the Church leaders, Apostles and disciples, who wrote, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Gospels and Epistles in the New Testament. The central core of these writings became the canon of scriptures some three hundred years after the Resurrection of Jesus. In addition to this central core, however, many Churches used writings that later became non-canonical. SO HOW DID WE FINALLY GET OUR CANONICAL SCRIPTURES OF TODAY? Church Fathers, anointed by the same Holy Spirit who had inspired the scriptures in the minds and hearts of the Apostles and disciple, were empowered and given wisdom to choose those books that God wanted in the canon that we have today. Their decision was made over 300 years after the Resurrection.