Is the Authority of the Scriptures from God or is the Authority of the Scriptures from the Church? Does the Church have the Authority to judge Scriptures?
matthew 12:18 ""Here is My servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations."
mark 9:7"Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud: "This is My beloved Son. Listen to Him!"
matthew 28:18-120 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
john 3:31 "The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is above all."
matthew 11:27 "All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him."
acts 10:36 "He has sent this message to the people of Israel, proclaiming the gospel of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
thwe authority n all of scripture is Jesus and Hos words, that's where all arguments will be settled and the only place the church can be truly united, when Jesus is the authority Lord of all is who He is, His words?
matthew 24:35"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."
john 6:63 "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you--they are full of the Spirit and life."
john 6:68 Simon Peter replied, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
Jesus is the authority, His words, are the very words of God Himself
john 12:49 "For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken"
deut. 18:18"'I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him."
john 7:16 "My teaching is not My own," Jesus replied. "It comes from Him who sent Me.
Jesus spoke the new and eternal covenant
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