Your quote:<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]but it does not mean that every imperative given in a particular historical context is a perpetually abiding principle upon the church today in precisely the same way. In the case just mentioned with the admonition to hold fast to the verbal testimony of the apostles we would say in response, "Show me an apostle and I will hold fast to his verbal testimony." But the reality is that there are no apostles today and so this command to hold fast to the oral traditions is an impossibility for us to keep in precisely the same way as the church at Thessalonica, though we do keep it in principle since we believe nothing is lacking in the written testimony left to us.</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br> And you know an apostle how? By scripture? Does the scripture tell us how to recognize an apostle? If not, then how do you know there are no more apostles? By experience, right? Unless there are scriptures telling us that this office has ceased....<br><br> This goes back to the experience vs. scripture idea.<br>