That is what makes it a real cr@pshoot. There is no one universally accepted definition of "Sola Scriptura", Bart Brewer had his, James White has his own (Which is so all encompassing it hardly mentions the Bible), And Loyd Gypsum of Bible Baptist in my home town has a completely different one.
The Roman Catholic Church doesn't own the copyright of Christianity.
Actually we pretty much do, but we just don't enforce it with the same vigor that the NFL does.
9The Roman Catholic Church doesn’t own the copyright of Christianity.
Actually we pretty much do, but we just don’t enforce it with the same vigor that the NFL does.)
Actually Jesus Christ owns the copy right and the power to graft “wild olive branches in” and take them out again should they lose their productivity. Paul spoke of the gentiles being the “wild olive braches being grafted in while the Jews had temporarily had been taken out” Paul gave a warning to us “wild olive branches” that we could be taken out again should we fall into error so the gentile believers at the time were not to get too smug about their new positions in Christ. It should have been taken as a warning to the budding church at the time that Christ could act to lessen their authority should they fall into error. That was what the Reformation was about I believe...God grafting new olive shoots in because the Roman Catholics at the time had gotten so corrupt and the Orthodox were being swamped in the East at the time by the Muslims and by their own corruption. The danger was that the work of Christ in imparting the knowledge of saving grace to the lost of the world was being in danger of being snuffed out. So I believe God acted in bold new directions via the reformation and via the printing press so that literally the “written” knowledge of the glory of the Lord would come to cover the whole Earth...and to every man who could read and could carry a bible in his hand! The Protestants became the new force that “turned the world upside down” once again.
I have a hope that out all 4 current elements of Christendom...Orthodox,Catholic,Protestant and the Messianic Jewish movement(yes lets definitely not count out our Jewish Christian brothers for they may be the vanguard of the Saved Jews that were foretold to come),...God will create such a wondrous spiritual hybridization, that the final Bride emerges unwrinkled and unbowed, despite the whole array of evil that Hell should raise against her...for Christ is our Lord and we are his people!