[paladinan]

Elsie wrote:

WE state [sola Scriptura] thus: "If something isn't in the Bible, then it isn't NECCESSARY FOR salvation".

All right (and I've heard that variant before, though some of your non-Catholic confreres on this forum might not agree with you). Can you show me where THAT teaching is found in Scripture, then? Chapter and verse?

[CynicalBear]

"ALL SCRIPTURE is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for DOCTRINE, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS: That the man of GOd may be PERFECT, THOROUGHLY FURNISHED unto all good works." 2 Tim. 3:16-17. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. - I John 2:27 John 5:37-40 37And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, 38and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. 39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. Jesus always appealed to the written Word of God to settle disputes, never to oral tradition. When He refers to the 'Word of God', His reference is always to recorded Scripture. According to His teaching, Scripture was the final judge of all tradition. In fact, Jesus has virtually nothing positive to say about tradition (cf. Matthew 4:4; 5:17-19; 15:2-9; 22:29-32). Clearly, if the Son of God teaches that all tradition is to be judged by its conformity to the Scriptures, then tradition is subordinate to Scripture and Scripture is logically the ultimate authority.

[bkaycee]

Where else but the God Breathed Scriptures, should we look for salvation requirements?

[Elsie]

Can you show me where THAT teaching is found in Scripture, then?

This is a fairly good variant itself!

You KNOW it can't be.

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Absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence.