"Can you provide a Scripture verse that tells us that we may only believe dogma that is given explicit treatment in Scripture?"
2 Timothy 3:16
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:16 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
Perhaps you didn't understand the question? Is there anything I can do to help? Do you know what "explicit" means? Do you know what "useful" means? Do you know that "all" is a different word than "only"?
No one is denying that Scripture is inspired by God and "useful." I asked if you had any Scripture backing up your apparent assertion that only things found explicitly (stated in clear language without any reasoning or thought being necessary to develop a principle from the Scriptural material) in Scripture are to believed.
Do you believe in the Trinity? The Rapture?
SD
The word "Scripture" refers to the Old Testament. At the time that St. Paul was writing (50-65 AD), St. John had not even written his Gospel, Epistles, or Revelation (85-100 AD). Other books of the New Testament had not been written when St. Paul wrote, either. Trying to make the word "Scripture" mean the "New Testament" won't work, because there was no New Testament when St. Paul wrote to St. Timothy. This is my point. The "New Testament" as we know it was not in existence until the late 300's AD.