Ping!
So if the Bible is wrong or incomplete who gets to say what parts are wrong or incomplete?
Where does Rome get her authority from?
I keep asking this question. Never get an answer.
That is not what it means.. but then Rome lives on lies
“It is the Protestant belief that the Bible is the only source for teaching on doctrine and morality.”
When you get the very first point wrong, then how much hope is there for the rest of the article?
Maybe if you want to know what Sola Scriptura is about, you might want to try asking a Protestant? Catholics around here love to complain that Protestants assume things wrongly about their beliefs, and then they post articles like this which do the same thing.
“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel – not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:6-9
Deuteronomy 4:2 “You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take anything from it”(also Deuteronomy 12:32). The reason God is so adamant on this is because “The entirety of Your word is truth” (Psalms 119: 160).
“Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar” Proverbs 30:6.
In the book of Revelation which is prophecy completes the Bible, just as Genesis began the Bible, it states “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this Book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this Book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this Book” Revelation 22:18-19.
The reason God is so adamant on this is because “The entirety of Your word is truth” (Psalms 119: 160). Proverbs 30:5-6: “Every word of God is pure; he is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.”
This is very poor reasoning. The scriptures were read in church since the beginning. The various churches copied each others letters and passed them around. That was one of the qualifications for inclusion in the Bible canon. Any book added to the canon had to have a history of being read in the churches.
Besides, Sola Scriptura does not mean that illiterate people can't know God.
Yep. Please let me know when you have a writer on par with God.
3. Sola Scriptura which means “Scripture Alone” cannot be found in the Bible.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Sola Scriptura does not mean that a person has to READ Scripture. Hearing it suffices but simple hearing it is NOT oral tradition.
It is simply hearing it.
Exodus 34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Exodus 24:4 Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said.
Jeremiah 30:2 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you.
Jeremiah 36:6 So you go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the LORD that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.
Isaiah 30:8 Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.
1 Corinthians 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
1 John 1:14 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. Not only to be written but to be read as well.
1 Thessalonians 5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
Revelation 1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Revelation 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book (βιβλίον - biblion - a book), and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Revelation 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book (βιβλίον - biblion - a book), If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book (βιβλίον - biblion - a book): And if any man shall take away from the words of the book (βιβλίον - biblion - a book) of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book (βιβλίον - biblion - a book).
1 Corinthians 4:6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
No writing and no books ey?
bkmk
This article:
-Written for those who believe lock, stock and barrel in the Catholic Church.
- So many straw men. As is ordinary with such Catholic articles, they seem deliberately obtuse, and this is also. It seems to intentionally misunderstand and mis-take Protestant beliefs in order to steer clear of what those beliefs actually are.
Sola scriptura in action. The Catholic Church says this about Allah:
” 841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”
Despite what Catholic teaching (tradition) says here, Allah is an idol, and that can be abundantly proven in all sorts of ways from Scripture. So, where a teaching of men contradicts Scripture, Scripture is the ultimate authority, the final word. YHWH, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a tri-partite being, and not Allah, who has a drastically different character from the true God. Catholic teaching, contradicting the Bible: in error.