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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Men are regenerated by God's will through the preaching of the Gospel.

It doesn't take anything more than this. All the top-heavy bureaucracies are just that -- extraneous to the merciful fact Christ paid for every sin His sheep have committed and will ever commit.

None of this refutes the fact that 'sola scriptura' is an historical novelty, the classic indicator of heresy.

-A8

1,024 posted on 10/23/2006 1:06:12 PM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8; Quix
SOLA SCRIPTURA
by A.A. Hodge

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, Having Been Given By Inspiration of God, Are the All-Sufficient and Only Rule of Faith and Practice, and Judge of Controversies.

1. What is meant by saying that the Scriptures are the only infallible rule of faith and practice?

Whatever God teaches or commands is of sovereign authority. Whatever conveys to us an infallible knowledge of his teachings and commands is an infallible rule. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the only organs through which, during the present dispensation, God conveys to us a knowledge of his will about what we are to believe concerning himself, and what duties he requires of us...


1,080 posted on 10/23/2006 3:06:45 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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