One of these jurors later confirmed that reference to scripture played a part in his deliberation.
So some of their writings sound like they were reading basically good scripture but reading it through the eyes of certain kinds of philosophy.
Now in order to use Jewish scripture to teach the supercession of Judaism by Christianity you know that he's going to have interpreted it in what we would consider very creative ways.
He's writing these to these different churches, the main thing about modern Protestantism is the idea that every Christian is responsible only to the reading of scripture, scripture only.
They go to synagogue, they know their scripture, they're circumcised, they keep kosher, they worship in the temple so Jesus also is depicted by Luke as a good Jewish boy.
So when you see the term "scripture" in the New Testament, it refers to Jewish scripture that Christians accepted, followers of Jesus accepted, as their own.
Two examples: the scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.
It was built in Ming and Qing Dynasties installing scripture halls, Buddha halls, county magistrate offices, courts, jails, and storehouses, etc.
Philo has — we have lots and lots of text in which he interprets the Jewish scripture through these allegorical kinds of methods among other methods.
So Marcion threw out the whole Hebrew Bible, the scriptures of Jews entirely, and substituted for Jewish scripture his own edited version of Luke and the letters of Paul.
Then they quote back what is exactly the proper scripture.
Your responsibility is to find the will of God through scripture, though the revelation of scripture.
