This is mind-reading and against relgion forum rules FRamigo. It is also false.
No private interpretation, the Bible says.
Not once. Not ever. How can I understand, when there is no one to explain, the Bible says.
The passage you obliquely refer to is speaking about spreading the Gospel.
But where is Sola Scriptura in the Bible?
It is throughout the Bible, but I'm left wondering if you understand the meaning of "sola scriptura?" What does the Bible say is the pillar and ground of truth?
The church is supposed to uphold the Scripture as a pillar upholds a temple. It really failed there! Thankfully, God didn't send His Son to start a chuch, but to save the souls of men.
To whom does Christ give the authority to teach?
The answer in Scripture can be found in the list of gifts He to the church. HE gives the gift of pastor teacher to some members of the church.
Please think and answer.
Again, I apologize for mind-reading.
If there is no private interpretation, then there must be public interpretation, no? And how better to do that than by the learned having discussions in public and coming to a conclusion, which conclusion is protected by the Holy Spirit? Is that not how the early Church worked? Is that not what was described in Acts?
I am clear on the fact that Luther’s original actions were in accord with this long-standing way of doing things. Where Luther went wrong was to refuse to give up his ideas when presented with Church teachings, which contradicted his own, and then refuse to discuss his ideas further with academics of the Church.
Thus, Lutheranism itself was based on private interpretation. In order to promote his idea of Sola Fide, he changed the Bible when he translated it.
And the further changes in Protestant theological thought were also based on private interpretation.
If Sola Scriptura is everywhere in the Bible, people should be able to show examples.
1Timothy 3:15: 15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church.
So the Bible says the pillar and ground of truth is the church, not that the church is supposed be a pillar for Scripture.
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Bus Christ did come to start a church, as an aid to men’s salvation. Doesn’t God know what human nature is like, doesn’t He understand how we work?
Thr roots of the organization already existed in the time of and were described in Acts.
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>>To whom does Christ give the authority to teach?
Matthew 28: And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.