Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: miken@mirror.tmc.com (Mike Nappo ) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: "Bible Alone" versus "Bible and Tradition" Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 90 03:57:23 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Mirror Systems. Cambridge, Mass. Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) writes: >If God had wanted His religion to be Bible-based, surely He >would have had the book written out and presented, rather in >the way Moslems got the Koran. > >The fact that Jesus did not write a book, but did found an >organisation tends to suggest His religion was intended to be >Church-based not Bible-based. > >Matthew Huntbach I find this thought to be most interesting particularly since I am a Catholic who is very much put off by the narrow "where is the Biblical basis" view. Therefore, I would like to carry this thread to a slight extreme: can someone tell me the Biblical basis for the Bible itself? I know that there is constant reference to holy scripture, but where is it clearly identified and codified as such? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- - Mike Nappo miken@mirror.TMC.COM * * {mit-eddie, pyramid, harvard!wjh12, xait}!mirror!miken - - Mirror Systems, 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140 * * (617)661 - 0777 - -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*