{"id":8470,"date":"2013-09-27T12:55:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/27\/the-original-christian-revelation-the-bible-or-the-teaching-of-jesus\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T12:55:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:55:48","slug":"the-original-christian-revelation-the-bible-or-the-teaching-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/27\/the-original-christian-revelation-the-bible-or-the-teaching-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original Christian Revelation: The Bible or the Teaching of Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Swinburne, Revelation<\/em>, Oxford, 1992, pp. 102-103:<\/span><\/p>\n

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. . . there has been a strain in Protestantism, with its immense reverence for Scripture, to write of Holy Scripture itself as the original [propositional] revelation; what was given by God was the Bible.  But that surely fits very badly with other things that those same Protestants wish to say: for example that there were Christians in the first four centuries AD.  For the books of the New Testament were not written down until from twenty to seventy years after Christ taught on Earth, and were only put together and recognized as a New Testament in final form in the fourth century AD.  If the books themselves were the revelation, how could there be Chrsitians when there were no books?  [Footnote 6 not reproduced: it quotes Iraneus and Papias as quoted by Eusebius.]  Holy Scripture must be regarded by Protestants as it is by Catholics, as no more than a true record of a revelation which existed before it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Richard Swinburne, Revelation, Oxford, 1992, pp. 102-103: . . . there has been a strain in Protestantism, with its immense reverence for Scripture, to write of Holy Scripture itself as the original [propositional] revelation; what was given by God was the Bible.  But that surely fits very badly with other things that those same Protestants … Continue reading “The Original Christian Revelation: The Bible or the Teaching of Jesus?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-doctrine","category-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}