The Relevance of Canon

[Mitex]

I don't understand any of this... no one has been arguing about changing the Canon... all of this argument has been about how there has been no serious dispute about changing the Canon for over about 1800 years.

No one except Barry's cohorts.  As you well know the consensus of born again Spirit filled members of the Church of God recognize the 66 book Canon as "sola scriptura", anyone who rejects that closed Canon (Standard!!!) is rightfully labeled a heretic or apostate by the Church of God.

 

[FSSL]

The problem is Mitex wants to constrain the consciences of us by accepting the KJV as THE STANDARD based on this fallacious idea that a consensus has real, practical authority.

God's Word has real, practical authority EVEN when it is a translation from manuscripts KJVOs reject and EVEN when the translational approach is deemed a bit too equivalent for the KJVO.

Canonicity issues have no relevance to this.

 

[Mitex]

The problem is Mitex wants to constrain the consciences of us by accepting the KJV as THE STANDARD based on this fallacious idea that a consensus has real, practical authority.

God's Word has real, practical authority EVEN when it is a translation from manuscripts KJVOs reject and EVEN when the translational approach is deemed a bit too equivalent for the KJVO.

Canonicity issues have no relevance to this.

The problem is that Barry wants to be a rebel and won't submit to the decisions of the Church of God. He and his buddies who would reject the established Canon are rightly treated by the Churches of Christ as heretics or apostates. Jesus didn't command his listeners to search what ever Barry's sect prefers, Barry's peculiar preferences or Barry's private translation. Our Lord Jesus Christ did command his listeners to search the Canonical Scriptures - Sacred Writings recognized by the Church of God as the very word of God in written form. The Standard Version always takes precedence over sectarian, peculiar, private or individually preferred versions where there are significant differences. 

Barry and his cohorts along with my other antagonists won't ever touch the issue of the Canon "with lead gloves and a four-mile laser."  They reject, mock, jeer and smear my definitions, but won't ever articulate their own definition of the Scriptures, the reasons they believe the Canon is limited to 66 books, or why the book of Jasper is not part of the Canon, but the book of Esther is.

 

[Ransom]

The problem is that Barry wants to be a rebel and won't submit to the decisions of the Church of God.

Apparently, despite his pedantic macro listing all the Baptists who are part of this alleged consensus, Mitex knows nothing about Baptist church polity.