[metmom]

It is one of the few areas I find myself in conflict with my Reformed Protestant FRiends. They often don't recognize it, but they can be just as guilty as the Roman Catholics of relying on man made statements as equal to God's Word.

If we are going to truly hold to Sola Scriptura as the rule of our faith we need to diminish the status of these creeds and confessions.

THANK YOU!!!!!!

Salvation is by faith in Christ and one's spiritual growth and maturity are the work of the Holy Spirit evidenced by the fruit of the Spirit being displayed in one's life, not evidenced by adherence to confessions, creeds, tongues, or any other man established criteria.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Ironically, Sola scriptura is a man-made creed.

It’s not biblical, and no Christian held this belief prior to Luther.

On top of that, a fallible Church makes the Scriptures Luther inherited dubious.

The doctrine is completely incoherent.

[Elsie]

Salvation is by faith in Christ...

It DOES seem that way:

 

John 6:28-29

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

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1 John 3:21-24

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

ACTS 15

[Elsie]

  Acts 15:28-29

 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: ²⁹ You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.

Farewell.

 

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(Yeah, for now; but the Church will 'burden' you with a lot of OTHER stuff later...)