Lets look at what is the definition of 'Sola Scriptura': "Bible Only"
Latin: "Sola" = Alone
Latin: "Scriptura" = Scriptures
Latin: "Sola Scriptura" = Bible Only
Sola scriptura (Latin ablative, "by scripture alone") is the assertion that the Bible as God's written word is self-authenticating, clear (perspicuous) to the rational reader, its own interpreter ("Scripture interprets Scripture"), and sufficient of itself to be the only source of Christian doctrine.
Sola scriptura may be contrasted with Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox teaching, in which the Bible must be interpreted by church teaching, by considering the bible in the context of Sacred Tradition, and with the concept of modern revelations and prophecies in the Charismatic movement.
Now we find that Sola scriptura was a foundational doctrinal principle of the Protestant Reformation and was clearly held by Martin Luther and is claimed to be a definitive principle of Protestants today. But is it, do Protestant follow what scripture says, or do they follow many of the same traditions that Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox brought in which are contrary to the Bible.
I came across the following which gives a example of how the Protestants do not follow the Bible.
1) That Protestants, who accept the Bible as the only rule of faith and religion, should by all means go back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday, stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man.
2) We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith. Besides the Bible we have the living Church, the authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church, instituted by Christ to teach and guide man through life, has the right to change the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament and hence, we accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We frankly say, yes, the Church made this change, made this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the Friday abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the regulation of Catholic marriages and a thousand other laws...
It is always somewhat laughable, to see the Protestant churches, in pulpit and legislation, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is nothing in their Bible. Peter R. Kraemer, Catholic Church Extension Magazine, USA (1975), Chicago, Illinois,Under the blessing of the Pope Pius XI
So nothing can be more plain and easy to understand what the Bible says on this, and no one can deny that it is in there. It is acknowledged by everybody that the day which God appointed to be kept holy was Saturday, not Sunday. And yet Protestant, who profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only in the most plain truth and important a manner as the observance of one day in seven as the holy day, Protestants go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. There is no denying that the command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments, and Protestants still believe that the other nine are still binding. Who gave Protestants the authority to tamper with the fourth. If Protestants are consistent with their own principles, if they really follow the Bible, and the Bible only Protestants ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered, otherwise they are not following the Bible.
Latin: "Sola" = Alone
Latin: "Scriptura" = Scriptures
Latin: "Sola Scriptura" = Bible Only
Sola scriptura (Latin ablative, "by scripture alone") is the assertion that the Bible as God's written word is self-authenticating, clear (perspicuous) to the rational reader, its own interpreter ("Scripture interprets Scripture"), and sufficient of itself to be the only source of Christian doctrine.
Sola scriptura may be contrasted with Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox teaching, in which the Bible must be interpreted by church teaching, by considering the bible in the context of Sacred Tradition, and with the concept of modern revelations and prophecies in the Charismatic movement.
Now we find that Sola scriptura was a foundational doctrinal principle of the Protestant Reformation and was clearly held by Martin Luther and is claimed to be a definitive principle of Protestants today. But is it, do Protestant follow what scripture says, or do they follow many of the same traditions that Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox brought in which are contrary to the Bible.
I came across the following which gives a example of how the Protestants do not follow the Bible.
1) That Protestants, who accept the Bible as the only rule of faith and religion, should by all means go back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday, stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man.
2) We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith. Besides the Bible we have the living Church, the authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church, instituted by Christ to teach and guide man through life, has the right to change the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament and hence, we accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We frankly say, yes, the Church made this change, made this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the Friday abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the regulation of Catholic marriages and a thousand other laws...
It is always somewhat laughable, to see the Protestant churches, in pulpit and legislation, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is nothing in their Bible. Peter R. Kraemer, Catholic Church Extension Magazine, USA (1975), Chicago, Illinois,Under the blessing of the Pope Pius XI
So nothing can be more plain and easy to understand what the Bible says on this, and no one can deny that it is in there. It is acknowledged by everybody that the day which God appointed to be kept holy was Saturday, not Sunday. And yet Protestant, who profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only in the most plain truth and important a manner as the observance of one day in seven as the holy day, Protestants go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. There is no denying that the command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments, and Protestants still believe that the other nine are still binding. Who gave Protestants the authority to tamper with the fourth. If Protestants are consistent with their own principles, if they really follow the Bible, and the Bible only Protestants ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered, otherwise they are not following the Bible.
