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We really need to http://hjhj0.tumblr.com/  think through these challenging words of N. T. Wright as he reminds us that all authority is actually quite personal and en-fleshed in Jesus ...Thomas, earlier in responding to an objection to "patternism" that humanity's salvation cannot rest upon human deductions and logic. He says, "correct, salvation is not a reward for cleverness." He then moves on to say, "the common man can learn from the Bible himself how to become a child of God and live a godly and acceptable life "The risen Jesus, at the end of Matthew's gospel, does not say 'All authority in heaven and on earth is given to the books you are all going to write,' but 'All authorityhttp://remembershuaig.blogspot.com/ in heaven and on earth is given to me." This ought to tell us, precisely if we are taking the Bible itself seriously as we should, that we need to think carefully what it might mean to think that the authority of Jesus is somehow exercised through the Bible. What would that look like in practice? In particular, what happens when we factor in Jesus own redefinition of what 'authority' itself might mean?"  .A fairly recent tome, Behold the Pattern, defends the notion of the New Testament being the perfect pattern for the church in name, belief, form and frequency of worship, organization, mission, structure, etc. Goebel Music, the author, cites as his proof the many times the NT uses the Greek word tupos.[3] This book is seriously, fundamentally, flawed by simply assuming http://hjhj1.tumblr.com/ the conclusion it seeks to prove.