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Oct 23 06 1:40 PM
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Quote:Peter was present at the First Council in Jerusalem, wasn't he?
Quote: His account of Acts 15 follows the usual Catholic rhetoric. "He delivers apostolic teaching . . . and stilled the debates raging back and forth and caused the whole assembly to fall silent. . . . it was through Peter that the revelation (regarding the status of the Gentiles) was given to the Church at the council. In essence, Peter was saying to the Church: 'Here is what we have to do, brothers. The Lord delivered the answer to me.'"However, we find the actual text to be quite different. Peter does give a good synopsis of what God had taught him at the house of Cornelius, but the people kept silent so they could hear Paul and Barnabas. Verse 13 says (after Peter spoke), "Then the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul . . ."The clincher, of course, comes with verse 19, when James stood up and said, "Therefore my sentence is . . ." The word sentence is from the Greek krino, which means to decide. The Douay Bible has James saying, "For which cause I judge . . .". This is after he had referred to Peter's statement but had exegeted the prophetic writings concerning the salvation of the Gentiles.Note also that nothing of was contained in James' sentence, or decision, was specifically what Peter had said. So there goes the "substantial and explicit" scriptural evidence.More . . .
Quote:59 min 56 sec - Sep 9, 2006 Richard Bennett, former Catholic priest discusses the history of the Church and what it means today.The History of The Papacy
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