Just like the early Christians suddenly stopped observing the other Jewish practices?
Matthew 3:11 makes it clear that the water of baptism is a shadow of baptism by the Holy Spirit, this is also the only consistent way to view the relationship between the ceremonial law and the promise of the Gospel.
Where down the line, those quotes were from Jesus, can't go back further than that.
Well, I suppose. I've wondered a bit about Sola Scriptura recently.
The things is, even if there were other sources of authority, they would have to be consistent with scripture, but the scripture itself condemns pretty much anything and everything we associate with organised religion. It is as I said about natural law and not positive law, so how can you add anything to that, its a creation ordinance.
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