Why Sola Scriptura Honestly Scares Me

“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ “

261 posted on 07/12/2014 4:15:48 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)

Ahhh.

What we do know from Scripture is that Joesph was a carpenter.

And from extra-Biblical sources we know that sons were trained in their father’s craft.

Do we know for sure? No. But that would have been the norm.

262 posted on 07/12/2014 4:18:56 PM PDT by Gamecock (There is room for all of God's animals. Right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.)

"[You underestimate what God can do.] He just happened to use them, like he used others throughout Scripture."

That's exactly what I was saying!! Read what you wrote. That's it, and admirably stated.

No, I don't underestimate what God can do. What he did was, He used the Church to further His mission.

It's all His: His guidance, His power, His mission. His Church.

263 posted on 07/12/2014 4:42:32 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("If they refuse to listen even to the Church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.")

Don’t sprain your shoulder patting Rome on it’s back.

Those who follow Jesus through faith are His church.

264 posted on 07/12/2014 4:46:37 PM PDT by Gamecock (There is room for all of God's animals. Right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.)

People who follow Jesus through faith! I'm for that!

And on that note, G'night, my dear. I have to go out and water my plants before it gets completely dark. I'll be up early tomorrow, but not sure I'll be on the computer til after Church, or even afternoon.

Meanwhile: think BASIC.

265 posted on 07/12/2014 5:25:50 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (B.A.S.I.C. = "Brothers and Sisters in Christ")

Have a good evening!

266 posted on 07/12/2014 5:47:08 PM PDT by Gamecock (There is room for all of God's animals. Right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.)

I second that. Have a good evening.

267 posted on 07/12/2014 5:53:37 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Obama - The Scandal a Week President.)

268 posted on 07/12/2014 7:03:53 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)

It isn’t just Catholics that are being killed in those middle east countries, other Christians of other denominations, and other people of other religions.

269 posted on 07/14/2014 8:02:55 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist

Someone can come up and say that Catholicism is a false religion, and no, Christ didn't establish Peter as the first Pope.
Christ said that upon this Rock, the truth that he is the Christ, the Messiah, that he would build his church upon that truth, that he ? Christ is in fact the anointed one, the Messiah, the truth of the Gospel is what the Church will be built upon.

The protest part of Protestant is people worshiping God freely without some man in Roman telling them what to believe, or how to worship, or what parts of the bible that they are allowed to read or even see or some government telling them how to worship.

I do believe that's why the Old World settlers came to the New World, for religious freedom, and from religious persecution, from the Catholic Church.
The first few settlers, other than Jamestown were the Pilgrims who were Protestants, not Catholics.

The Spanish Catholics settled in Spanish settlements as missions in areas as in Florida, Georgia, Texas, New Mexico, California, but that was not considered English colonies.

British colonists who were predominantly Protestant, opposed not only the Roman Catholic Church but also the Church of England.
Catholicism was introduced to the English colonies in 1634 with the founding of the Province of Maryland by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.

Salvation by faith, don't leave Earth without it, for NO MAN is justified before God by the law, the Bible says so.
Sorry, no Pope, no Man, is not going to tell me how to believe, what to believe, how to worship God.
My trust is only in God, Jesus Christ and his word, Sola Scripture.
Those who follow after some man will be seduced to worship the anti-christ, you can count on that.

270 posted on 07/14/2014 8:26:02 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist

Their reasoning, the Aikens, is really “ Come and let us compromise together “ .

271 posted on 07/14/2014 10:07:44 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist

Sola Papa ( the Pope, or future Pope ) might very well be the false prophet or the anti-Christ himself, I do not follow any man, or trust any man for my salvation.

272 posted on 07/14/2014 10:10:02 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist

The ancient Chinese knew, and knew of messiah like person to come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7YjZMahFuk

273 posted on 07/14/2014 10:28:51 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist

274 posted on 07/14/2014 10:29:02 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist

Catholicism came out of a Roman pagan cult ( hence, ROMAN CATHOLICS ) worship before Christ in Roman, it’s when they adapted to Christianity that it became the Catholic religion that we know today.

275 posted on 07/14/2014 10:31:47 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist

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