What’s so bad about using the words that Jesus himself said, not to mention the Prophets and the Apostles, in order to judge the worth and merit of ideas circulating in the modern day?
One would think that God’s Word would be the ultimate authority on those kind of things.
Gods Word vs. Tradition and Apparitions. Hmmmmm
I think I know which one Jesus and the disciples would pick.
One would think that God’s Word would be the ultimate authority on those kind of things.
2 Timothy 3:14-17 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Luke 24:25-27 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke 24:32 They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”
Luke 24:44-49Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Matthew 4:4 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Mark 12:24 Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
Matthew 22:29 But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
John 10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—
John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
If coming from God's mouth isn't enough to make it authoritative, coming from a religious organization certainly won't.
Catholics objection to Scripture sounds a wee bit too much like Pilate's question of *What is truth?*
But then again, Satan was the first one who questioned the veracity of God's word with these infamous three words....."Did God REALLY say......?"