Is the Bible necessary for salvation?

[zeland2236]

Is the Bible necessary for salvation?

 

[Pythons]

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ....
...If one can't read the Scriptures the Scriptures should be read to them.

 

[Jpark]

Is the Bible necessary for salvation?

It's a circumstantial thing.

Someone who has never heard of God but give thanks to the Creator unknowingly, fears Him unknowingly, and does His will unknowingly, and does what is right, abhors evil, and desires goodness and unknowingly seeks God can be accepted.

God looks for good in man. Consider 1 Kings 14:13.

 

[Big Drew]

I'm gonna go with no...While the scriptures are of extreme importance, it's only within the last few hundred years that everyone has had access to them...I'm pretty sure there was some saved folks before then.

 

[Philothei]

That is relative... Are we to think people who are impaired mentally are not saved? A clinical dead person has no chance of knowing God? I think God makes manifest His Glory to all... even without the Bible... The Bible is a tool for getting to know who God is. Yet it does not say it is necessary to salvation. Connecting with God and doing His commantments is... If someone grasps the message of Christ (which of course is based in the Bible) and do the will of the God then he is saved

If that was true all illeterate people in Africa that know the basics (some cannot read) are not saved ... Knowing God is also 'experiential" not always intellectual as there are so much we "do not know" or cannot comprehend about God that no matter how hard we 'read" we are still clueless to his "bieng" as He is much more than what we can fathom of Him.

 

[wayseer]

Is the Bible necessary for salvation?

It very much depends on your own need for salvation.

 

[OrthodoxyUSA]

Is the Bible necessary for salvation?

I'll give you my answer.

No. Christ's mercy is not bible dependent.

It is a wonderfully helpful tool.

Forgive me...

 

[fwiwwl]

No, Final answer! beyond that, I see some so wrapped up in pin and ink that they miss knowing the Creator. It does my heart good to see the no's on this subject!

 

[Pythons]

The Scriptures have ALWAYS been there in Judaism and with the Christian Faith...
...Prior to Scripture being "written" it existed in Sacred Tradition.
...Which is exactly what Scripture is - Tradition that was written down.
...That was according to the Canon of Faith which already existed.

Sure, people who never heard anything would be judged by how they operated under moral or natural law....
....People who have the truth would be held to a higher standard I'm thinking.

 

[Optimax]

The Bible being the one and only source for salvation is critical for salvation.

Without the source to inform us there is no salvation.

As far as the old tired question of "What about those that haven't heard" or whatever the reality is this;

God is just and well able to deal justly with any situation where you and I are not.

The reality is also is that you and I have heard, we do have the Bible and therefore should be insuring that we heed to what it says recognizing IT as what God says to us.

Is it realized that if God was to appear "in person" to you that:

HE WOULD NOT SAY ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IS REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE!!

 

[MrPolo]

Ironically, the Bible itself says that Gentiles who did not know the Jewish Scriptures were without excuse because God is revealed in the world itself.

Romans 1:20 Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.​

 

[ivebeenshown]

I hope not, I'd feel bad for the thief on the cross.

 

[OrthodoxyUSA]

I hope not, I'd feel bad for the thief on the cross.

No need. I'm sure St. Dismas is just fine.

Forgive me...

 

[E.C.]

Is the Bible necessary for salvation?

No.

There was no Bible for the first 400 years of Christianity anyway. If the Bible is "necessary" for salvation, than the first Christians, including everybody mentioned in the Bible such as Peter, Paul, etc; would be out of luck. All those killed by Persians, Jews and Romans would have died for naught.

 

[Pythons]

Ironically, the Bible itself says that Gentiles who did not know the Jewish Scriptures were without excuse because God is revealed in the world itself.

Romans 1:20 Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
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Yes, indeed! Moral or "Natural law".

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

No. The Scriptures do not save. The Word of God saved, and the Word of God can be spoken apart from the book.

 

[heritage36]

I would have to disagree with most of you. The Scriptures are absolutely necessary for us today to achieve salvation! Without them, we don't know Christ today, and he is the only way to salvation (John 14:6). Yeah, the word can be preached today, but without the Bible we don't know we are speaking the right word to give to people to help them be saved. The Word of God is all we have today with that authority, since there are no apostles or anyone sent directly by God with the authority that only comes from him. I know the Scriptures in themselves do not save, but they are the guide that tells us how to get to that point that we are worthy of that salvation. Without them, our faith would be totally blind and there would be nothing to check things against.

 

[Dark_Lite]

I would have to disagree with most of you. The Scriptures are absolutely necessary for us today to achieve salvation! Without them, we don't know Christ today, and he is the only way to salvation (John 14:6). Yeah, the word can be preached today, but without the Bible we don't know we are speaking the right word to give to people to help them be saved. The Word of God is all we have today with that authority, since there are no apostles or anyone sent directly by God with the authority that only comes from him. I know the Scriptures in themselves do not save, but they are the guide that tells us how to get to that point that we are worthy of that salvation. Without them, our faith would be totally blind and there would be nothing to check things against.

So what about the first 4 centuries this side of the calendar in which the Bible did not exist?

 

[pgp_protector]

Is the Bible necessary for salvation?

No

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

I would have to disagree with most of you. The Scriptures are absolutely necessary for us today to achieve salvation! Without them, we don't know Christ today, and he is the only way to salvation (John 14:6). Yeah, the word can be preached today, but without the Bible we don't know we are speaking the right word to give to people to help them be saved. The Word of God is all we have today with that authority, since there are no apostles or anyone sent directly by God with the authority that only comes from him. I know the Scriptures in themselves do not save, but they are the guide that tells us how to get to that point that we are worthy of that salvation. Without them, our faith would be totally blind and there would be nothing to check things against.

The illiterate are damned to hell. Nice.

So much for the majority of Christians that have ever lived.