[geocentrism] Re: Forsaken Roots
- From: "Martin G. Selbrede" <mselbrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:30:04 -0500
On May 1, 2007, at 6:08 PM, philip madsen wrote:
To which the Bible is an important adjunct, but not a necessity,
since practically everything of import in the Bible is replicated
within what is called Sacred Tradition.
(1) Who decides what is "of import"?
(2) When Dean John Burgon collated the entirety of the Church
Fathers, he was able to assemble the entire New Testament, except for
four verses. So, assuming that the four verses are not "of import," I
supposed I'd be fine with your point, IF everybody read the
voluminous Church Fathers (38 volumes and 22,896 pages, available at
Amazon for $1100.00). But I fail to understand the idea that the
Bible isn't necessary because its content is replicated in a far more
massive set of books that occasionally goes out of print. If you
think the folks who've read the Bible end-to-end is small, calculate
the number who've read the Church Fathers end-to-end. I think it's a
safe bet that this number is probably the smaller number. I suspect
there's a reason this is so.
(3) The above point (2) only relates to the New Testament in regard
to "replication" -- but you can't even come close to assembling the
Old Testament from that source. I reject in advance any facile reply
to the effect that little in the Old Testament is "of import."
Respectfully,
Martin
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