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RCC authority on members?

Forum: Theological Expressions
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The clergy/laity distinction: a help or a hindrance to the body of Christ? (RTC)
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Elders and Deacons (K)
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The biblical notion of laity and clergy (RTC)
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Elders in the biblical sense are priests! You think early church got worship leader meh? (Emmanuel)
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Wrong (RTC)
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There shouldn't be too much concerntration on NT and neglect acts of disciplines in OT! (eom) (Emmanuel)
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No one is neglecting the OT (RTC)
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Prayer and Abstinence, Priesthood and Divorce (eom) (Emmanuel)
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I thought (RTC)
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Brethren RTC............. (Emmanuel)
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What chain? (RTC)
Date: 2001, Aug 10
From: Emmanuel

Dear RTC, You could definitely make the case that the Bible tells us all we need to know to be saved. In fact, I’ll go even further and say that the Bible tells us more than we need to know to be saved. No doubt we’ve all seen Evangelical tracts, such as “The Four Spiritual Laws,” tracts that explain the nature of God, the nature of man, man’s separation from God, and God’s plan of salvation. These tracts invariably end with an invitation to pray the “sinner’s prayer,” in which the person confesses his sin to God, and asks God to save him. If a person reads such a tract, and sincerely prays that prayer, wouldn’t a Protestant say that this person is saved? So really, since these tracts tell us all we need to know to be saved, they’re all we need, right? We can pitch the Bible, right? Of course not. These tracts do not tell us all that God wanted to tell us, and we should not assume that anything God wanted to tell us is expendable. The question, then, is whether the Bible itself contains all that God wanted to tell us. Nowhere does the Bible say that everything God gave the apostles to reveal was reduced to writing. On the contrary, the Bible tells us that we must accept the teaching of the apostles, whether oral or written (2 Thess. 2:15). Paul himself told Timothy to keep Paul’s oral teachings as “the pattern of sound teaching” (2 Tim. 1:13), and to pass those teachings on to others (2 Tim. 2:2). He also commended the Corinthians for “hold[ing] firmly to the traditions,” just as he had delivered them (1 Cor. 11:2), and he warned the Thessalonians to “keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.” (2 Thess. 3:6). So according to the Bible itself, we need both the Bible and Tradition. In His Honor, Emmanuel