[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

As long as someone in AUTHORITY has made the claim

"If he will not listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or tax collector." -Jesus

Why do Protestants accept Luther's authority to promulgate novel doctrines, like Sola Scriptura, when there is no evidence for it in the Bible, the early Church, or the first 1500 years of Christian history?

[CynicalBear]

You keep going on about sola Scriptura yet you haven’t shown another infallible source showing where the apostles taught the assumption of Mary. If you can’t do that then scripture is all we have as their teaching.

[Diamond]

Why do Protestants accept Luther's authority to promulgate novel doctrines, like Sola Scriptura, when there is no evidence for it in the Bible, the early Church, or the first 1500 years of Christian history?

"This seal have thou ever on thy mind; which now by way of summary has been touched on in its heads, and if the Lord grant, shall hereafter be set forth according to our power, with Scripture proofs. For concerning the divine and sacred Mysteries of the Faith, we ought not to deliver even the most casual remark without the Holy Scriptures: nor be drawn aside by mere probabilities and the artifices of argument. Do not then believe me because I tell thee these things, unless thou receive from the Holy Scriptures the proof of what is set forth: for this salvation, which is of our faith, is not by ingenious reasonings, but by proof from the Holy Scriptures."
Cyril of Jerusalem (313– 386 AD)
A Library of the Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church (Oxford: Parker, 1845), "The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril" Lecture 4.17

"The generality of men still fluctuate in their opinions about this, which are as erroneous as they are numerous. As for ourselves, if the Gentile philosophy, which deals methodically with all these points, were really adequate for a demonstration, it would certainly be superfluous to add a discussion on the soul to those speculations. But while the latter proceeded, on the subject of the soul, as far in the direction of supposed consequences as the thinker pleased, we are not entitled to such license, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings."
Gregory of Nyssa (335 – 395 AD)
Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, editors, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (Peabody: Hendriksen, 1995) Second Series: Volume V, Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, "On the Soul and the Resurrection", p. 439.

Cordially,

[Elsie]

"If he will not listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or tax collector." -Jesus

"If he will not listen to ROME, boil him oil or RACK him!!!"

--Torquemada

[Elsie]

"If he will not listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or tax collector."

"If he will not listen to MOM, then she is not going to pass his prayers on to me.

[Elsie]

Why do Protestants accept Luther's authority to promulgate novel doctrines, like Sola Scriptura, when there is no evidence for it in the Bible, the early Church, or the first 1500 years of Christian history?

Oh???

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2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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I guess St. Paul REALLY meant to say...