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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg
“Sola Scriptura” means that everything needed for salvation is contained in the Bible - it doesn’t mean that man is unable to talk about the contents of the Bible, verbally or in writing. No man can add anything of merit to the Scripture - that’s the point

Why talk/write about it if it's sufficient? Why talk/write about it if it's meaningful only to those who have ears and eyes to hear and see? Why talk/write about it if God decides who hears and who sees and your talk changes nothing, unless its' all for ego and for making God a profitable business venture?

6,654 posted on 07/25/2008 6:05:34 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

Because human creatures gain insight by hearing a given concept from others. I think Scripture says it this way:

“Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.”

Because no man is an island unto himself, we each need other saints to help us see where we have blind spots, etc. Regarding the witness to the world, preaching the cross to spiritually dead people is the only thing we can do - it’s what the Scripture says for us to do. Yet the words and phrases that one says may be better understood than what the other says - and either one is fine if it is biblical and not a story of man’s creation.

This is why there are 4 Gospel letters in the Bible.


6,655 posted on 07/25/2008 6:28:36 AM PDT by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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