[ealgeone]

It's not Self and Self Alone, it's what the Holy Spirit allowed Satan to hide for fifteen hundred years. It's really Scripture Alone as the Self chooses to interpret Scripture with no regard to how it's been understood for two thousand years and Faith Alone as Self chooses to define Faith on any given day. As I said, I'll pray for you.

Nope. It is what the Bible says in context. Context is key in understanding the Bible. You begin to take things out of context and then you're making stuff up...ala the RCC.

[Rashputin]

"Nope. It is what the Bible says in context."

LOL, riiiiight.

Context minus the portions Luther threw out because he accepted the authority of self-appointed, anti-Christ, anti-Christian, Pharisees rather than the authority of Christ, the Apostles, and fifteen hundred years of accepted Christian teaching as well as other limitations chosen for convience sake.

Sure, context as Self defines context for the convienence of Self at any given moment.

Exactly the sort of "context" that twists the simple, direct, statement of "not by faith alone" into "that's a different kind of faith because otherwise I'd have to be inconvienenced".

Protestantism is and always has been the same lie Eve swallowed. The lie that the individual can rely on their Self and Self Alone rather than submitting to and obeying God.

I'll pray for you