Posted on 05/27/2017 9:15:17 AM PDT by ealgeone
Question: "What is the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture? What does it mean that the Bible is sufficient?"
Answer: The doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture is a fundamental tenet of the Christian faith. To say the Scriptures are sufficient means that the Bible is all we need to equip us for a life of faith and service. It provides a clear demonstration of God’s intention to restore the broken relationship between Himself and humanity through His Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior through the gift of faith. No other writings are necessary for this good news to be understood, nor are any other writings required to equip us for a life of faith.
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Please provide evidence to substantiate your claim.
Are you kidding?
You haven’t answered a question I asked, yet.
On more than one occasion. You just don’t like the answer.
Sure.
DA Carson, a real Protestant Bible scholar resolved the issue years ago.
He does a much better job of explaining than I could, and you would not believe his standing if it didn’t come from your own research rather than me telling you.
Nevertheless, many Protestant pretend scholars still promulgate their falsehoods for the sake of their doctrine.
No, you insist on answering questions I did not ask rather than the ones I do ask.
BIG DIFFERENCE!
“Paul didn’t learn anything from any Church...”
This is what is so comical about Bible-bangers. They will toss out anything they find inconvenient.
Where did Paul go to learn the Faith after his conversion? The NT had not been written!
He went to the apostles, to be INSTRUCTED.
And you people claim to take Scripture seriously. You’ve just thrown out the whole book of Acts.
BTW: In the book of Acts, where are the Gospels? Where are the epistles? Yet, there is a CHURCH!
Link or posted work.
“All Scripture...”
I see you still don’t know the difference between ALL and ONLY.
Until you can show that you can tell the difference between ALL and ONLY, all intelligent people will continue to laugh at you.
If you were familiar with the Greek you’d understand the meaning of all in the passage.
When I was in the THIRD GRADE (1961), our teacher told us that many Protestants think that Catholics worship Mary. The entire room of forty eight-year-olds LAUGHED OUT LOUD.
As long as you continue to repeat that slander, all but the most unintelligent people will laugh at you.
Since you have been repeating that lie for years, intelligent people must conclude that you are a malicious bigot.
Go ahead. Prove that ALL means ONLY.
Duh! I didn't choose this translation!
My intervention was a reply to post #12 written by ealgeone who posted these verses. He chose this translation. I simply cut and pasted what he wrote.
These scriptures alone, as the verses indicate when studied and understood can make the man of God NOT just adequate, but complete, perfect in being thoroughly furnished in the knowledge of God.
The word "alone" is not used. You wrote that.
This argument is not about the worth of Scripture. We agree on that. The argument is about whether Scripture alone, Scripture exclusively and absolutely nothing else can be used for instruction and teaching.
The verses you quote provide zero support for that proposal and no sane person would claim they did since at the time St. Paul was evangelizing, the New Testament was non-existent.
Paul received his biblical revelations directly from Jesus...The minute he received those, they became scripture...Even before they were written down...
Pure, unadulterated fantasy! That's a whopper!
So a private revelation from Jesus is now considered to be "scripture"? If Jesus appears to me and tells me certain things, it's already Scripture?
LOL....good one!
And they became the traditions which paul taught until he had gotten the opportunity to put them to parchment...To think it didn't become scripture until your religion sanctioned it is ludicrous...
Whoa....you used the "T" word......"Tradition"!!! Nooooo!! Get behind me Satan!! That's man-made stuff!! It must be in the Bible!!!
Here's the elephant in the room which you can't get around. The new Christian communities in Corinth and Ephesus (and other places) were instructed and directed by Paul, the evangelist, not by a book. They received his letters as spiritual guidance from an elder, an authority figure, a real, live human being; the evangelist who had brought them the Gospel.
This is the model which has come down through the centuries; bishops write letters of guidance to their flocks. The early Church flourished under the personal, spiritual guidance of the apostles and elders before any New Testament appeared. Your argument comes to dead end, right there, in the first century AD.
I notice you still won’t tell us what particular Protestant sect you adhere to. Or, do you have your own interpretation of the Bible, you said you read Greek. Are you a “church of one”?
Strange.
This is why there is the caucus threads. Keeps things peaceful.
All that means is you’ve been taught incorrectly since 1961 and that you continue to teach incorrectly since you became a priest.
All that means is you’ve been taught incorrectly since 1961 and that you continue to teach incorrectly since you became a priest.
All that means is you’ve been taught incorrectly since 1961 and that you continue to teach incorrectly since you became a priest.
I am a Christian. A follower of Christ. Denominations mean nothing to God. I have one last class to go for a grad level certificate in Greek.
Amen
Sorry replied to the wrong post
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