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To: spirited irish

So very true!

Sola scriptura (Latin for ‘by scripture alone’) Is one of the five Solas which my church, the PCA, bases our faith.

In 2 Timothy 3:16, Paul states that the Scripture is God’s breath (breathed out by God). And “God’s Breath” is meant very literally. Just as In Genesis 2:7, we read that God’s breath brought life to the first man Adam. In John 20:22, we see that Jesus breathed on His disciples and brought new life to them as He told them to receive the Holy Spirit.

The scriptures are so very powerful ….. so powerful that Jesus quoted scripture when he battled Satan. And I believe that God literally “breaths” His WORD into us as we read them.


3 posted on 05/27/2023 4:18:41 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Scripture infalliable. Interpretation of it not so much.


4 posted on 05/27/2023 4:24:35 AM PDT by dominusobiscum (A Christians true heart can be revealed by how they treat others anonymously on discussion forums.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; BDParrish; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; ...
Sola scriptura (Latin for ‘by scripture alone’) Is one of the five Solas which my church, the PCA, bases our faith.

Alone as being the only infallible, immutable authoritative sufficient (in its formal and material providence) express word of God whereby one may (not necessarily will) by saved and grow in grace (see here), but not alone as formally and explicitly providing all that is needed, from reason to the teaching office of the church, but which strawman many Catholics misconstrue it as meaning, in arguing for sola ecclesia, in which formal RCC teaching is supreme, and as preceding Scripture, and as if men such as the apostles being able to speak as wholly God-inspired means that the promulgations of the RCC all have the same veracity. .Thus see 14 questions as regards sola scriptura versus sola ecclesia

Yet the majority of RC scholarship reduces such historical accounts as Balaam's talking donkey to being fables.

5 posted on 05/27/2023 5:02:11 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

PCA here…Agree!


10 posted on 05/27/2023 6:11:42 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Amen 🙏🏻!!!!


27 posted on 05/27/2023 9:35:47 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

“And I believe that God literally “breaths” His WORD into us as we read them.”

Truth!


76 posted on 05/27/2023 9:50:51 PM PDT by avenir ("They sang His praise...they soon forgot His works")
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I was intersting as I grew in my faith (and have always been a constant on Scripture reading and study) that though I never made a point to memorize scripture how easily and quickly they came to mind when the occasion called for it...and still does to this day.... Just as Jesus promised His Spirit would do.

It was said to me one that as we read the scripture goes through us....and this by His Spirit our great teacher!


77 posted on 05/27/2023 9:59:58 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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