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To: rbmillerjr; Quix
I baffles others when those claiming sola scriptura exclude versus of God’s Word to prop up the likes of Calvin and Luther.

The Church Fathers believed in Sola Scriptura:

"They [heretics] gather their views from other sources than the Scriptures...We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith" - Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.1.1

Notice what the ground and pillar of truth was to Ireanaeus ...THE SCRIPTURES

"I beg of you, my dear brother, to live among these books [scripture], to meditate upon them, to know nothing else, to seek nothing else."
- Jerome (Letter 53:10)

Sola scriptura..

Seems Luther and Calvin had some good ole catholic company

898 posted on 06/21/2010 10:26:22 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
Note that you reference St. Irenaeus. Does that mean that you fully accept his teachings including his significant contributions to Mariology and his assertion that Mary is the co-recapitulator?
902 posted on 06/21/2010 11:05:02 AM PDT by Natural Law (Don't automatically presume the voices in your hear are the Holy Spirit.)
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