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To: D-fendr

Yet the reasons for why you contend that is unworkable have been shown to be invalid.

Scripture is true and truth. Being God breathed, Holy Spirit inspired makes them authoritative by default. It’s inherent in their nature as the very words of God, regardless of whether everyone interprets them the same way or not.

Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lie. Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Not much room for differences of interpretation, is there?

So what’s so hard to interpret correctly that renders Scripture as not being authoritative?

And just how does a difference in interpretation render it non-authoritative?


418 posted on 03/18/2013 7:32:48 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
And just how does a difference in interpretation render it non-authoritative?

When it is the authority of the individual via sola scriptura. If everyone is an authority then no one is.

Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lie. Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Not much room for differences of interpretation, is there?

One would hope not. But when it comes to who Christ is, salvation, baptism, the sacraments... there have been - and continue to be - many quite different interpretations of the same scripture.

419 posted on 03/18/2013 7:42:04 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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