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To: WVKayaker
The Scriptures themselves (the NT) do not contain any statement of the doctrine of sola scriptura.

Consider yourself taught, corrected, and rebuked!

2 Timothy 3: 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 ALL Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Do you know the difference between "only" and "all"?

When you find a verse that says that ONLY Scripture contains revelation, I will consider myself corrected and rebuked.

29 posted on 10/06/2013 12:20:48 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: Arthur McGowan
When you find a verse that says that ONLY Scripture contains revelation, ...

When you find a verse that says that tradition contains revelation, I may listen to you...

John 1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

... 5: 24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.

...14: 23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. ...

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Collosians 2: 6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.

32 posted on 10/06/2013 12:53:09 AM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: Arthur McGowan; WVKayaker
>>When you find a verse that says that ONLY Scripture contains revelation,<<

Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.<<

Now please find for us where anyone was commended for checking with anything else to see “whether those things were so” that were/are being taught. If you can't then scripture stands as the only source for the truth of what is being taught.

58 posted on 10/06/2013 11:51:11 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Arthur McGowan; WVKayaker
When you find a verse that says that ONLY Scripture contains revelation, I will consider myself corrected and rebuked.

Consider this: How can one equate that which we know to be God-breathed with that which can only be the traditions of men? Even in the fetid swamps of Romanism, their traditions are not 'God breathed'... Yet they assume to lift them equal to, or even above that which is known to be of YHWH.

SOLA-scriptura does not mean ONLY. ALL Protestants have their own traditions, ALL Protestants listen to and learn from other sources, but sola-scriptura dictates that nothing learned elsewhere can hold an equality or superiority to the written Word. And rightly so, for if it is OF YHWH, how could it possibly differ from what is written?

65 posted on 10/06/2013 2:50:12 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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