[Alex Murphy]

Even from the few select references we have offered, it may be clearly seen that the five Reformation Solas' - Scripture, faith, grace, Christ and God's glory - are internally united and therefore inseparable. This is because the mind of God as revealed in Scripture is one. When the Holy Spirit combines them in our experience, we too cannot think of one without referring to the rest. This is the aim of all true theology - to think God's thoughts after him, and so be conformed to his mind.

[frogjerk]

The Apostles didn’t believe in Sola Scriptura.

[BwanaNdege]

OoooRah!

Semper Fi!

(All of the above meant in a spiritual sense! Just the heartfelt reaction of an old Jarhead.)

Well said!

[lastchance]

I think this would qualify as a caucus thread.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

[fso301]

Oh. I clicked the thread thinking it was about the International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)

[G Larry]

So we can keep bashing Catholics....who preserved the Bible until the advent of the printing press, which made it convenient for Protestants to edit.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Ping.

[catroina54]

and where DID Luther get this from ?
faith alone ? where is that in Scripture prior to MrLuther rewriting it ?
did he also delete
1Thessalonians 5:20—do not despise prophecy ?

etc.

[mas cerveza por favor]

We begin where Luther begins, with 'sola Scriptura,' the formal principle of all Reformed teaching. We need 'sola Scriptura' because in this dark world of spiritual blindness, 'the only reason we can see at all is that the light of God's Word shines brightly (2 Pet. 1.19).' Without that light 'we would not know or understand anything.' (Works, 6.148)

So the underlying foundation of Protestantism comes not from Scripture, not from Tradition passed down from the Apostles, but from Luther's "Works." That is quite a damning admission.

[mas cerveza por favor]

We need 'sola fide,' then, because faith is the only thing that lays hold of Christ in the promises of the Word for our salvation.

Faith is no good if it is alone:

You say you have faith, for you believe that there is one God. Good for you! Even the demons believe this, and they tremble in terror. (James 2:19)

Luther edited St. James' Epistle out of the Luther bible. Luther's arrogant disregard for Scripture is no better than that of Thomas Jefferson, who followed in the footsteps of Luther to create his own truncated bible.

[mas cerveza por favor]

'I teach that man must trust solely in Christ Jesus.' (Letters, 1908, London. XXI)

Christ Jesus teaches:

"Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me." (John 14:21)

[mas cerveza por favor]

Grace is so necessary to our justification that 'wanting to be justified by our own works through the Law is ... throwing away God's grace . . . This is a serious error.'

Luther discounts the power of grace to overcome sinfulness in the heart of the penitent.

[mas cerveza por favor]

By his constant insistence on believing, it may be suspected that Luther places man's salvation above God's glory. But it is not so. Luther teaches that God is glorified more in man's salvation than in his damnation. This is why God himself - by his prophets, his Son and his apostles - repeatedly beseeches them to come to him.

God himself established His Church through His only Son. Luther disregarded the glory of God by opposing the Church founded by Christ and His Apostles with a "new improved" man-made religion.