Did the Early Church Fathers Believe in Sola Scriptura?

Reclaiming the Mind ^ | April 25,2015 | C Michael Patton

[Elsie]

On the Internet; no one can tell you’re Deep Blue.

[Elsie]

I was expecting an extensive oxymoron exposition...

[Elsie]

Perhaps early pickling did the job...

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[Elsie]

As a Pre/Mid/Post tribber; I see just about all sides of the scenario.

The ONLY thing I know(believe) for sure; is that it is GOING to happen!!

[Elsie]

In terms of harvest, as we see in the wheat and tares, I think it would have to be Rev. 14.

"Phooey with the grain stuff!" say my pet goats; "Why do the dumb sheep get all the goodies?"

[Elsie]

Sola Scriptura is not just a reformed protestant belief; it is the heart of Paul’s ministry, and the reason why he had to be the true 12th apostle.

Why doesn't ROME and it's followers ever chastise the Bereans for THEIR practices?

[Elsie]

Yeah, I was in one of the ekklesia cathedrals in Rome just after I visited St Peter's....amazing....

Yup!

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John 12:6-7

6 “Leave her alone,” Jesus said. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 You will always have poor people with you. You can help them any time you want to. But you will not always have me.

[Elsie]

Somebody did, I doubt that it was God....He never goes back on His word. :-)

He just fails to inform Catholics that they had NOT included enough of His teaching when they compiled the bible; thus the TRADITIONS had to be given added weightiness later.

[Elsie]

No it doesn't...

COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL

(So does mere READING...)

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Our hearts burn with zeal as we honor you, Our Mother.

We love you as a child loves a mother and you love us as mother loves her children.

Please guide us, your little ones, to our Eternal and Almighty Father God through our prayers and through your love for us.

Many in this world may slander and degrade you while still claiming to exalt God, please forgive them and pray for them for they may dishearten your devoted children.

May we be made worthy of the promises of Christ through your prayers.

You love us so freely and we are so unworthy of it.

You love us because God and Christ loved us first.

Mary, Mother, I love you.

Amen.

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[Elsie]

Good attempt at parsing though... The simplest of statements can be twisted in today’s world.

Amazing response to a MASS of Scripture that SHOWS the 'church' was NOT build on Peter!

[Elsie]

Don't catholics ever read the catechism?

Like a lower caste Hindu: Untouchable.

[Elsie]

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[Elsie]

I just want to know where people plan to spend eternity.

Sadly; I think that most have no 'plan'; just some vague hopes...

[metmom]

And here we thought God told us that grace came through Jesus Christ.

What does He know?

It's it wonderful that the Catholic church is around to correct the errors that the Holy Spirit left in Scripture?

Grace

Ephesians 1:3-10 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Romans 5:1-2 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

John 1:14-17 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

[imardmd1]

Ah! a catecumen!

[knarf]

AND ... when it's all said and done .... God is not waiting for us to pass an exam before we enter Heaven

I believe God is the SOLA

and His SCRIPTURA is what He says

Yep ... Sola Scriptura

[af_vet_1981]

My most recent Bible study presentation was at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Grey Tennessee.

I suppose there are as many flavors of Baptists as there are of ice cream; only a minority are fundamentalist. I thought that Independent Fundamental Baptists hold you must be baptized into one of their assemblies to belong to the Ekklesia, which is always local and physically present in a particular location.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“People can play their silly little word games. I will have none of it. I have people to preach to. All I want to know is, when the stuff hits the fan, when the rubber meets the road, when we get down to the gut issues of life. I just want to know where people plan to spend eternity.”

Agree 100%.

It takes Christ to open our eyes and faith in His gracious gift alone to give us eternal life. The rest matters little.

Religious works, rituals, medals, symbols, priests, costumes, candles, incense, holy water, and all the rest counts for nothing in having eternal life.

Thanks for your clear statement and testimony.

[Mark17]

I just want to know where people plan to spend eternity.

Sadly; I think that most have no 'plan'; just some vague hopes...

Yes, vague hopes. It won't count for much at crunch time, will it? I just don't understand why people don't want to go to Heaven. The mystery of iniquity maybe. The truth is clearly there. I feel sorry for people who can't or won't see it, but that's on them. It needn't be that way. Rumor has it, that God won't be in much of a mood for excuses or false religions. I think God has a most unimaginable type of fire, that we know nothing about. People are foolish if they want to experience that. A word to the wise. Don't get caught on the wrong side of eternity. 😇

[MHGinTN]

I think God has a most unimaginable type of fire, that we know nothing about. A deep insight! There are noteworthy times in scripture where the idiom is used, like what happened on the Day of Pentecost or what Ezekiel saw as God's Spirit left the Temple and then Jerusalem so the Babylonians could take the city. Something made Moses's face shine. A bush burned before his eyes but was not consumed ...