> But the war with the pharisees, the crucifixion, & Saul, the
> Judaizers; all of this leads me to believe that a fake convert of a
> scribe having responsibility over the letters could insert nasty
> little changes of his own, which seem real but are not. I think I've
> found a few, and will name one.
>
> Matthew 19:16-26 MKJV, and (Mark 10:17-27, Luke 18:18-27!!)
> (16) And behold, one came and said to Him, Good Master, what good
> thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?
> (17) And He said to him, Why do you call Me good? There is none good
> but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the
> commandments.
>
> Christ says He is not good?! And to enter life is by the
> commandments, (and not by Christ?!)
>
> (18) He said to Him, Which? Jesus said, You shall not murder, you
> shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear
> false witness,
> (19) honor your father and mother, and, you shall love your neighbor
> as yourself.
>
> And then teaches the law instead (of Himself)?

No. He teaches that following the Law is not enough. Following Jesus is
what counts. No wonder his disciples were amazed "what, then shall we
do?". Any Jew would be. The condemnation of the rich man is a secondary
message. In a sense, Jesus is humoring the man, as evidenced by his
comment in v17. He does this to reveal faith (or lack thereof in this
case, the man only had faith in himself), as he did with his
"Samaritans are dogs" comment to the Samaritan woman at the well.

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Gary McNees wrote:

>
> Your God cannot manage both free will and ordination?
>
> If you want help in understanding this, I suggest
> you read Thomas Aquinas.
>
You mean Aristotle, don't you. That was his inspiration. The very
essence of Aquinas' position is that man's self-consciousness is
intelligible apart from or separate from God-consciousness. THIS is
the essence of all pagan philosophy. This is also the basis for Roman
and Arminian thought.

Calvin had it right when he required that man, as the interpreter of
Scripture must himself first be interpreted by Scripture. That
specific revelation speaks of man as dead. From this extends the
Romanist theology that men are to have implicit faith in the church,
the assembly of self-conscious men apart from God. This is what the RC
forces through its allegorical hermeneutic.

Because Aquinas mixed Biblical Christian thought with pagan
Aristotelian thought, it is made up of two mutually exclusive
principles, Christian and non-Christian. Aquinas and Rome both operate
off of the non-biblical principl