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16 hours ago, shiloh357 said:

Which tells us that St. Jerome was not a genuine follower of Jesus.  Followers of Jesus don't speak like that.

Amein,  and are not supposed to ,  are instructed not to , even associate with such a one with an uncontrolled temper,

so likewise never accept a tradition associated with such a one.

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I haven't read the entire thread and maybe somebody already brought this up, but one of the main criteria for determining what books should be included in the New Testament canon was this -- a book had to be written by someone who knew Jesus personally or by someone who knew someone who knew Jesus personally.  That criteria would preclude anyone adding books further down the line as those connections to Christ would end at some point.

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On 5/26/2017 at 9:55 PM, Willa said:

God still speaks to us but never contradicts established canon.   Nor can we base doctrine on other than established canon.                                                 The mormons took off with their revelation from their angel Moroni and came up with the new world being visited by one of the 12 tribes of  Israel as well as by Jesus.  Just saying, people who claim new revelations are to immediately be considered suspect.  

All revelations were/are to be judged--and they judged them by established Scriptures even if all they had was the Old Testament.  They also judged them by the words of the apostles.   The   New Testament events were foretold by the Old Testament prophets.  Any good reference Bible will tell you that.   The Bible confirms itself.     

So I must also respectfully agree to disagree.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Good point. The Bible has doctrine on the subject of spiritual gifts in 1 Cor 12 for example and in 1 Cor 14, Ephesians 4 etc. The whole point of "sola scriptura" is to follow what the Bible teaches on doctrine and one of those Bible doctrines are the doctrine on spiritual gifts - where God the Holy Spirit - third Person of the Godhead gives to each person as He wills according to 1 Cor 12.

 

The fact that Mormons abuse that doctrine - can be a point that is proven "sola scriputra". But we should not "throw out the baby with the bath water". At the time of Christ many false Messiah's had come up - the "easy solution" would be "well fine -- in that case nobody can be the Messiah". Easy - but wrong.

 

Paul had the gift of prophecy - so also did John the revelator. tossing out all prophets in the NT age would have cut the legs out from under the NT church.

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