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To: ToryHeartland; PatrickHenry
My concern with "sola scriptura" Prostestantism --if I understand it aright--is that it cannot ultimately traffic with any other intellectual endeavour, least of all science.

Why do you think this way?

1,117 posted on 02/21/2006 12:06:33 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
Why do you think this way?

Hmmmm...not entirely sure, given your somewhat "drive-by posting" style, that you really are soliciting an answer--but what the heck, I'll bite.

I think this way (about 'sola scriptura' Protestantism) by definition; truth, under this tenant, is literally available by scripture alone.

In which case, it follows, one can have no meaningful traffic with science. And althought the account is now known to be apocraphyal, the 'logic' would seem to be that attributed to Caliph Omar, said (wrongly, as it happens) to have burned all the books from the magnificent library at Alexandria on the grounds that "they will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, so they are superfluous."

That, it seems to me, is the end-point of 'sola scriptura.'

1,131 posted on 02/21/2006 12:28:20 PM PST by ToryHeartland
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