Why not just say it? Extra-Biblical.
Added to what is Written in the Word.
Revelation not given in the Apostolic times of Scripture writing, but given now, to be given greater weight that the Words of the Book Itself.
Isn't that what you mean? Why do you hold back from acknowledging it?
Am I an agent of Satan?
Boy! I haven't been asked that in a long time! Why? Are you?
I can never understand why people won't just commit themselves to what they believe. I do. I believe the Bible is the Ultimate Authorative Revelation from God to Mankind. Jesus showed the Father to us, and we have a written record. We have the Law and the Prophets and the other Writings.
No man can say anything that changes what it says. No man has the right to misappropriate a single word, a single letter. No man has the right or authority to add to or take away from what is written.
Anything you say that is not written in Scripture will be less than Scripture for me. I can read the Book and it will tell me what God want's me to know. The apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastor/teachers whom Jesus gave to the church will never differ from the Word of God.
Ok. That's my view. I can be plain, I can be bold, I can be clear.
Do you shy away from saying that there is a man who if he tells us that such and such verse means the opposite of what the words say . . . that he is right. Do you believe that?
Much love!
Mark
Listen up. Yes, this is very much a "
Satan get behind me" moment. Your line is very much like Satan's comments in the garden. You ask a question, then supply only part of what is written to challenge the whole truth, while demanding worldly proof. That is what the atheist do.
So, yes, since a tree is known by its fruit, you are doing as Peter (though greatly beloved) did also: making assumptions about spiritual truth, but thinking as men think.
To be perfectly clear, the spiritual definition of "extra-biblical", is:
lacking the Spirit. God is spirit. Jesus' words are spirit. But all language (including the scriptures) have been confounded by God, and therefore must be spiritually discerned. Which makes the scripture-alone stance, anti-Christ.
But you are right that no one can add to, take away, or change the scriptures. However, the correct precedence for receiving all truth and that which the apostles could not bear during their times...is written. The precedence, which came after Jesus scolded Israel for holding to the past and not allowing the prophets (by killing them), was given by Christ who told us the way, which is the "
fulfillment" of what is written. But here you are making a case against the fulfillment of what is written of our times, and against those to whom he gave gifts for that very purpose. Which...again...is anti-Christ. And you making an ultimatum against such...well, that is just foolish.
Although faith and belief are greatly esteemed by God, that is not my gift. What I have, was not given to me to believe, but to know...which is by the Holy Spirit, a fulfillment of the scriptures.
Believe what and who you will, but the scriptures are only part, for they are spirit, and much is unseen.