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Scriptures inspired by God
- Acts 1:16 "Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended Jesus"
- Romans 1:2 "Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy scriptures"
- 2 Saint Timothy 3:16 "All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice"
- 1 Saint Peter 1:10 "Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you."
- 2 Saint Peter 1:20-21 "Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost."
Called the Word of God
- 1 Thessalonians 2:13 "Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed."
- Hebrews 4:12 "For the word of God is living and effectual..."
Called a two-edged sword
- Psalms 149:6 "The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two- edged swords in their hands"
- Hebrews 4:12 "For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
- Apocalypse 1:16 "And he had in his right hand seven stars. And from his mouth came out a sharp two-edged sword. And his face was as the sun shineth in his power."
Some things hard to understand
- 2 Saint Peter 3:16 "As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction."
Have need of an interpreter
- Acts 8:30-31 "And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest? Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him."
- 2 Saint Peter 3:16 "As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction."
- 1 Saint Timothy 3:15 "...the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." (The Church is the source of truth, the Mother of the Bible and is its Holy Interpreter.)
Purpose and uses of Holy Scriptures
- Romans 15:4 "For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope."
- Romans 16:26 "(Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) known among all nations"
- 1 Corinthians 10:11 "Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come."
- 2 Saint Timothy 3:15-17 "And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice: That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work."
No Scripture subject to private interpretation
- 2 Saint Peter 1:20-21 "Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost."
Learnt from childhood
- Deuteronomy 6:6-7 "And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.
- Deuteronomy 11:19 "Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.
- Deuteronomy 31:12-13 "And the people being all assembled together, both men and women, children and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the words of this law: That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear, and fear the Lord their God, all the days that they live in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it."
- 2 Saint Timothy 3:15 "And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus."
Blessed for believing
- Saint Luke 11:28 "But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it."
- Apocalypse 22:7 "And: Behold I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book."

Hold to traditions whether written or by WORD and
TEACH others what you have heard by our WORD.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:14 "Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle."
- 2 Saint Timothy 2:2 "And the things which thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, the same commend to faithful men who shall be fit to teach others also."(The Holy traditions of the Church have been passed on from generation to generation starting with the Apostles and their successors.)

Christ established a Hierarchy with Peter as the visible head
and transmitted his same authority to his successors till this day.
APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION (Click Here)
- Saint Luke 10:16 "He that heareth you heareth me: and he that despiseth you despiseth me: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me."
- Saint Matthew 16:18-19 "And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven."
- Saint Matthew 18:17 "And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican."
- Malachias 2:7 "For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts."