Like Luther's doctrines of "the Bible alone" or "faith alone"?
What about the notion that historical and theological truths not found in the Bible are false? Where's that in the Bible?
Doesn't the Bible tell us that Jesus taught much more than could be recorded? Would these teachings of Jesus be false, since they aren't recorded in the Bible?
Would you care to identify them?
“Among those things which are said openly in Scripture are to be found all those teachings which involve faith, the mores of living, and that hope and charity which we have discussed.”
Augustine, On Christian Doctrine trans. by D.W. Roberston, Jr. (New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1958)
I don’t think either one of us are going to come remotely close to resolving those issues from our relative perspectives in this life on this forum . . . short of some major miracles.
Like Luther’s doctrines of “the Bible alone” or “faith alone”?
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Now, AF, to be exceedingly more fair and accurate . . .
I think if a computer were fairly and accurately programmed to assess inferences . . . and say layers out of inferences . . .
The inferences, extrapolations, assumptions re Mary
are MANY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE further out from Scripture than the inferences re BY FAITH ALONE.
FAITH ALONE is fairly directly inferred from many specific Scriptures making plain statements about the primacy of faith.
The Mary stuff is air-gel stacked upon air-gel stacked upon fog stacked upon wild assumption stacked upon VERY OBLIQUE AND DISTANT slight mention of something as related as the neghboring GALACTIC CLUSTER . . . maybe.
FORGOTTEN PING to various
Like Luther’s doctrines of “the Bible alone” or “faith alone”?
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Now, AF, to be exceedingly more fair and accurate . . .
I think if a computer were fairly and accurately programmed to assess inferences . . . and say layers out of inferences . . .
The inferences, extrapolations, assumptions re Mary
are MANY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE further out from Scripture than the inferences re BY FAITH ALONE.
FAITH ALONE is fairly directly inferred from many specific Scriptures making plain statements about the primacy of faith.
The Mary stuff is air-gel stacked upon air-gel stacked upon fog stacked upon wild assumption stacked upon VERY OBLIQUE AND DISTANT slight mention of something as related as the neghboring GALACTIC CLUSTER . . . maybe.
What about the notion that historical and theological truths
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WHICH ARE ASKEW FROM, WHICH CONTRADICT SCRIPTURE . . .
That principle is plainly evident in a number of Scriptures.
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