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Originally Posted by HisServant

I never assumed such a thing. Did I say it had to be scripture?.. nope, a simple note attributed to Peter or any other original apostle would suffice.

Already answered in my previous post.

Actually, the original Apostles warned about going 'beyond' what was revealed to them.

If you're referring to 1 Cor. 4:6, you may want to think again:

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1992/9208chap.asp

So any doctrinal development post-Jesus would be forbidden and Christians were warned to shun those that would teach such things.

Indeed? Of course, this would rule out quite a few important Christian beliefs, which weren't "hammered out" in the Church until much later than the Apostolic Period, for example the doctrine of the Trinity which wasn't defined by the Church until the 4th century A.D. In any case, even most Protestant scholars acknowledge the reality of "doctrinal development post-Jesus."

http://www.catholic.com/library/Can-Dogma_Develop.asp
http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2006/...opment-of.html
http://www.newmanreader.org/works/development/

That sounds good, but there is no evidence that any of the RCC's early fathers were disciples of any of the original Apostles...

Sorry, but can you hear me way out there on Pluto? Please name any qualified patristic scholar---Protestant or Catholic---who would agree with your wholly uninformed claim.

http://www.soladeiverbum.com/ecf.shtml
http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2007/...ndex-page.html

Gaudium de veritate,

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