Word: christe
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...infallibility has been largely based on the several Scriptural passages in which Jesus enjoins the Apostles to teach all mankind. Si mons, who accepts the common opinion of Protestant scholars on the question, argues that "these texts do not prove or imply infallibility. What they say is only that Christ wanted the Apostles to teach his gospel, and that they had certain knowledge of what to teach. They had such unforgettable memories of all the main events and teaching of Jesus that they could not err in communicating to their audiences. Their infallibility was not of the theological...
...argument for infallibility: that the Apostles in their teaching had the special protection of the Holy Spirit, and that the church is heir to that divine guidance. Whenever the Apostles call upon the Paraclete for assistance, he points out, it is only to refresh their recollections about details of Christ's ministry, and never to appeal for "proof that their teaching is true." Simons cites Jesus' declaration in John 14:26: "The Holy Spirit will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." In Simons' view, the obviously personal...
...fidelity to Scripture. "For both preachers and audience," says Simons, "the final fount of the Gospel message is in the New Testament books, the only extant documents connecting us with verifiable certainty with Jesus and his message." He concludes that by keeping faithful to the record of Christ's words and deeds, the church will always be able to protect itself against errors that misconstrue the Gospel message...
...While thanking you for the attention given to my "case," I feel bound to point out that I cannot recognize the statements about Christ's resurrection and Mary's virginity as my own. I have, in fact, never spoken or written about Mary's virginity in the sense suggested by you, and while I could accept the negative part of the opinion on Christ's resurrection as my own (in the sense that a physical recomposition of Christ's corpse is not necessarily implied), I am firmly convinced that it does imply a new bodily...
...understanding of how one can be victimized by a lack of power, says Shanker, stems from his days as a Yiddish-speaking boy in a non-Jewish neighborhood of Queens, where other kids called him a "Christ-killer." Once they even tied a rope around his neck and tried to hang him. At the University of Illinois, he bicycled six miles daily to the campus because, he claims, closer quarters were all "listed for WASPS, right there in the official university housing bureau." Looking back, it seems almost inevitable that he became a political activist. As chairman of the Socialist...