I know that the Holy Bible was inspired by God, but it was written by human beings. I can’t help but think that maybe the authors were influenced in their inspired writings by their given traditions and culture. In fact, many traditions in their culture were pagan in origin.
If the bible were written today, would it be different? What if God personally visited Kenneth Haney and inspired him to write an epistle to the UPCI? Wouldn’t Bro. Haney’s inspired words be influenced by the paradigm of our present culture?
Many folks forget that our present day New Testament 27 books were approved and canonized by the Catholic Church in 397 AD at the 3rd Synod of Carthage. They left out other epistles such as the ‘Epistle to the Laodiceans’, which up to that time had been included in the German bible. They also left out other gospels such as ‘The Gospel of Thomas’. They consider these books heresy. They also consider Oneness Apostolic beliefs to be heresy!
My point is that we as Oneness Apostolics readily accept the Holy Bible as determined by our sworn adversary, the Trinitarian Catholic Church!!! We find that the Nicean Council was in error in establishing the trinity doctrine as the official doctrine of the Catholic church. Has anyone ever questioned the omission of other epistles and gospels?
Things that make you go……Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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