(June 19, 2017 at 12:32 pm)alpha male Wrote:(June 19, 2017 at 12:18 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: There is (or should be) a qualitative distinction between the Bible recording Jesus saying this, Jesus saying that and so forth, and then when a Joseph Smith, or a Jim Bakker pops up and says things in accord with what Scripture records, that is fine and dandy, however, when someone pops up and says essentially Jesus told me to go contradict Him, there otta be a 'flag on the play'.
Why do you only mention Paul? Why not Peter, for the vision he claimed he received which led to opening things up to gentiles? Jesus said that what Peter loosed on earth would be loosed in heaven though. Or didn't that remark from Jesus count?
Nowadays, people who hallucinate like that are shot up with thorazine and locked up for a while so they can't hurt themselves or others. Too bad the Romans weren't so progressive.
