Keep believing it if it makes you happy. You're still wrong, but if you're happy, I'm happy.
pssst... wanna know a secret? It means that scripture contains everything necessary for salvation.... there -- now you know. It has nothing to do with the "man in the mirror; it has everything to do with God almighty.
The reason the Roman Catholic Church hates it so is that it puts it out of a job that it claims to have but no one has ever needed.....
Hoss
Hoss,
you seem to be a learned man, maybe you can answer a question i have asked on here for a while that no one seems to be able to answer.
the Scriptures do not contain an inspired table of contents to tell us which books belong in the canon and which do not. many books that claim to be scripture are not in the Bible and many books are in the Bible that don’t claim to be scripture.
given that, who if anybody ( human person or institution ) can infallibly state what the true canon of Scripture is?
if the answer is no one can, how can you be sure what you hold in your hand is really the word of God?
if the answer is yes, who has that authority and where did they get it from?
i’d really like an answer and no one can give me one.