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| | The Authority of The Holy Scriptures |
 | | This is an affirmation of authority, but it is authority contextualized by the needs of the current community, and not an authority which finds its source in the event which founded and began that community. |
 | | Authority is not, therefore, seated in the early Christian community but, rather, in the modern critical community's rational ability to determine what is true and what is theological accretion. |
 | | The authority for the Christian, then, is the authority of the event, for our knowledge of which in its initial impact we are dependent upon the experience of the primitive community which it called into being. |
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