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Refuting Sola Scriptura - Why the Bible Alone is Not Sufficient

Do You Adhear to Sola Scriptura?


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QUOTE="BobRyan, post: 68661901, member: 235244"]It wasn't unchanged to some. When they received the word, they received the word of Paul.
Mark 7, in it's entirety, not removing or adding to it, does not speak to Sola Scriptural.[/QUOTE]

Can you prove that speculative claim -- since in real life we 'see' Christ using Sola Scriptura to prove to the magisterium of the one true nation church started by God at Sinai - that their supposedly holy, sacred, infallible tradition was flawed.

Mark 7

7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the Commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
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I contend that those verses do not in any sense constitute an endorsement of Sola Scriptura, and my contention is aided by the fact that no extant writings from the early church suggest they do;...

that were so actual exegesis of any kind in that post of yours - I think we both would agree to that.

Can you demonstrate that your contention in that regard survives the details "in the text"?? Your argument confines itself to avoiding the details in the text so far.

Your appeal to later tradition as your only argument for your POV is hardly satisfying the requirement to sustain your prior claim that "sola scripture does not pass its own test" given that we actually have it in Mark 7 and your only solution is to wait a few hundred years after that for some Catholic council to not notice that detail.

Wouldn't you already have to "be" in the anti-sola-scriptura camp to be satisfied with that sort of proof against Mark 7??

What if the Jews in Mark 7 used your tactic? Entirely avoiding the details in the statements made by Christ in Mark 7 - and simply circling back to their own tradition?

What teaching of Christ "could not be rejected" using such a method??

Alas BobRyan I think you know well that I cannot give you what you want,

Indeed - you seem to prefer to avoid exegesis at all costs as you avoid the details in the text under discussion.

because the Orthodox regard the tradition that surrounds the text and the text itself as part of the same tradition.

Indeed by conflating all the various options into one large mass of 'tradition' you need to avoid the text itself at all costs - because in the actual text Jesus contrasts scripture with tradition... a feature of his argument that one cannot even admit 'exists' when taking the path of such extreme conflation.


Your own denominatin Inshould lament to point out regards thenwritings of Ellen G White as an authoritative source of meta-data regarding the scriptural text;

If your argument here is that I am quoting Ellen White and not Mark 7 details - just as you are avoiding Mark 7 details and appealing to centuries late - tradition... then once again i think you have come up with yet another speculative assertion that "does not survive the details" as we see them in the text of these posts.


No BobRyan, my point is that its silly for you to passionately defend something your own denomination disregards.

In "real life" we see that you are appealing to tradition and I am appealing over-and-over-again to the "details in the text".

Your false accusation above does not change real life.

If you think that Orthodox and RCs elevate tradition above scripture, you are mistaken.

I think those who oppose "Sola Scriptura" and those who argue in favor of it with Bible texts to prove - is not the great mystery that your comment would have it. Far more transparently obvious apparently than some had imagined to themselves.

Your repeated implication that I have been quoting Ellen White instead of the Bible to make the point fails to get off the ground.

I am using the sola scriptura method that is also affirmed by my denomination - not just the Bible.
 
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Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
Charles Spurgeon
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Romans 10 does not agree your quote

9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

Rev 3 does not agree with your quote
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

Rev 22 does not agree with your quote
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

"The Papists … hold that man, through his own free will, returns to God; and on this point is our greatest contest with them at this day."

"His own free will"??

John 12:32 "I will DRAW ALL mankind unto me" -- that is supernatural. God's drawing fully enables the choice to accept the Gospel that depravity disables.

Your quotes of "man" as compared to the Bible - do not hold up.

in Christ,

Bob
 
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RCC killed a L O T of Christians. They invented the burning stake. They were jealous of the true truth being discovered.

Actually Emperor Theodosius dod that, over the objections of St. Ambrose of Milan, who is also recognized as a saint by the Orthodox.
 
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Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
Charles Spurgeon
........

"The Papists … hold that man, through his own free will, returns to God; and on this point is our greatest contest with them at this day."

"Concerning that this clown babbleth of free will, it is sufficiently rejected throughout the whole scripture."

"Faith is a special gift of God, which proceedeth not from our free will."

"Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind."

"No free will of man can resist Him that willeth to save."

......calvin

All of these quotes from Calvin come across as being "the black utterances of a depraved imagination," to paraphrase Gilbert.

Calvinism as a system is demonstrably bankrupt as witnessed by the vile conduct of the Calvinist countries in Northern Europe compared to their Lutheran, Orthodox and Catholic neighbors.
 
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BobRyan, I am not in any sense stating that you are quoting Ellen White instead of the Bible, rather I am merely pointing out your own denomination is shaped by her theology as much as mine is by the rich theological tapestry we call "tradition."

This is not about the Biblical verses, but about their interpretation - they simply do nit mean what you think they mean. In a great many places, they are either referring to the Old Testament (the contents of which were a product of divinely guided Tradition, since there is no Table of Contents in divine Scripture), or refer to the only begotten Son of God, who is also called the Word, for example, in John 1:1.

The phrase "Word of God" when encountered in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, should be assumed to refer to the person of our Lord unless it is in a context where it obviously refers to the scriptural text.
 
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All of these quotes from Calvin come across as being "the black utterances of a depraved imagination," to paraphrase Gilbert.

Calvinism as a system is demonstrably bankrupt as witnessed by the vile conduct of the Calvinist countries in Northern Europe compared to their Lutheran, Orthodox and Catholic neighbors.
What's so "vile" about the Netherlands? Meanwhile, her "Catholic neighbor" France waged aggressive wars upon most of her neighbors for almost the whole of the 18th century up until the fall of Napoleon. "Lutherland" gave us the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II. Then, Orthodox Russia opened the door to World Communism. ;)
 
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What's so "vile" about the Netherlands? Meanwhile, her "Catholic neighbor" France waged aggressive wars upon most of her neighbors for almost the whole of the 18th century up until the fall of Napoleon. "Lutherland" gave us the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II. Then, Orthodox Russia opened the door to World Communism. ;)

Prussia was in fact Calvinist, at least as far as the Royal House of Hohenzollern was concerned; in the 19th century the Lutheran and Calvinist churches were united and an effort was made to Calvinize the Lutheran parishes, which ultimately failed.

Coincidentally both the LCMS and the UCC are in part descended from the congregations of the Prussian diaspora in the US; the other major part of the UCC of course being the former Puritan/Congregational churches which did not become CCCC or Unitarian.
 
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All of these quotes from Calvin come across as being "the black utterances of a depraved imagination," to paraphrase Gilbert.

Calvinism as a system is demonstrably bankrupt as witnessed by the vile conduct of the Calvinist countries in Northern Europe compared to their Lutheran, Orthodox and Catholic neighbors.

Total depravity has been proven and backed with bible quotes. Return to the bible for confirmation but you won't understand unless you have first been regenerated and given to Jesus whom he died for.
 
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No BobRyan, my point is that its silly for you to passionately defend something your own denomination disregards.
If you think that Orthodox and RCs elevate tradition above scripture, you are mistaken. It provides interpretive context. Anglicans also use it along with reason to interpret scripture.
So basically like Ellen White in your denomination.

BobRyan, I am not in any sense stating that you are quoting Ellen White instead of the Bible, rather I am merely pointing out your own denomination is shaped by her theology as much as mine is by the rich theological tapestry we call "tradition."

When some non-Christian joins your denomination and asks to know "what does the church believe" - I think your standard set of instruction to them will be steeped in quotes from tradition -- and some Bible texts.

When some non-Christian desires to join sola-scriptura denominations such as the one I am a member we inform them first of what the church believes - via Bible studies - where the Bible is the primary source book not tradition.

The contrast of how that works out "in real life" may be seen on this very thread - we pick a doctrine on the Bible and how traditions/ideas/etc are to be tested -- such as the case in this thread and "we see" just exactly how your ever-present appeal to tradition to get to the answer - and my ever-present appeal to the details in the text to get to the answer -- are contrasted.

We are each simply showing in real life example in this case- what we are doing in our respective denominations.

Another great example of how this works out in real life is the posts recently on predestination free-will, calvinism.

My response: sola scriptura. Today at 8:38 AM #922
Just as we would have expected.


So I keep pointing us back to Mark 7:6-13 as it totally slams supposedly sacred/infallible "tradition" via the "sola scriptura" method. And you respond by resorting to any other source - but the actual text making the point.

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This is not about the Biblical verses, but about their interpretation

Is there any post on this thread where you "interpret" a word or phrase in Mark 7:6-13 differently than my quote of it???


The phrase "Word of God" when encountered in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, should be assumed to refer to the person of our Lord unless it is in a context where it obviously refers to the scriptural text.

So then -- Mark 7:6-13 - Christ quotes Moses - quotes Ex 20:12 and says it is the "Word of God" - and that this is what refutes the claims of the magisterium.

in Christ,

Bob
 
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QUOTE="BobRyan, post: 68661883, member: 235244"]1. Jerome was translating from Hebrew and Aramaic - not from the Greek LXX.
2. The post from me Today at 8:50 AM #852 that you quote in your post - was not arguing against the LXX being used by Greek Christian - if you find something in my post saying that the LXX was rejected by Greek Christians - please point to it.

On the contrary we show Christ actually using it in Mark 7:6-13.

And we show it approved of by the church in Acts 17:11.

Thus "sola scriptura" meets its own criteria.

Pretty much -- irrefutable.



Once again you prefer to differ while providing no evidence at all in support of your choice. In fact you provide the self conflicted statement that Jerome is translating the books in the LXX -- not using the LXX but rather using the actual Hebrew and Aramaic - the very Hebrew and Aramaic claim that I stated in my post above.

You demonstrate of course that you have free will and can choose to ignore all the evidence provided. And I have never challenged your ability in that regard. We all have free will.

in Christ,

Bob[/QUOTE]
I've provided evidence for our reasoning, you just prefer not to believe it. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. I am humble enough to believe what my Church teaches, and know what it means to obey. You prefer to go with the Enlightenment and feel as though you're an authority unto yourself. That's what free will is. I'm free to obey, you're free to disobey. Just like Eve.
 
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God pulls my strings and leads me where he wants me to go. When God is in control, He can guarantee His promises. There are no maverick atom running loose. Not a single one of them
A loving God does not work that way. He's not a puppet-master.
God gives us free will, and proposes how we should live. It's up to us to accept or reject the whole of it. I choose to accept. Including the 'hard teaching' of John 6.
 
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Correct. And they verified the spoken Word of God with the written Word of God and confirmed that there were no discrepancies. They did not turn to the rabbis ("Holy Tradition") and ask them to confirm the truth of God's Word. Their SOLA SCRIPTURA was the Tanakh.
But there was a spoken Word, and there still is, to this day.
Someone else is trying to dodge the full import of Psalm 119. David was a prophet, therefore this psalm is actually the words of God written by David, hence it also anticipates the New Testament (where Peter equates ALL of Paul's epistles with Scripture). This psalm is not merely David's musings about the Tanakh. It is the longest psalm in the Bible and its entire focus is the Word of God. When David says "Forever O LORD, thy Word is settled in Heaven" that in itself is a statement to support Sola Scriptura. And we could go into this psalm verse by verse and word by word, and that would be the logical conclusion.
The Early Church Fathers were disciples of the Apostles, therefore their writings are actually the word of God, as well, because the apostles and their followers were guided by the Holy Spirit, as Jesus said they would be. God actually spoke to David, as He actually speaks to our hierarchy today, and we trust the complete word of God, which is verified by Scripture. Including the books you choose to leave out.
 
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RCC killed a L O T of Christians. They invented the burning stake. They were jealous of the true truth being discovered.
The Catholic Church did not kill a lot of Christians, especially if you take into account how long the Church has been around. Did they kill people? Yeah, probably. But they didn't burn witches at the stake, as did the Protestants. Generally, those you attribute to "the RCC killing Christians", they were found guilty of something and turned over to the state for punishment.

I can say, with certainty, that, of the major entities throughout Time, the Catholic Church was not one of those 'leaders' who killed lots of people.
 
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Interpretation of traditions of RCC is like interpreting tongues of Pentecostals. Both comes out of the mouths of men.
The Traditions that are important are inspired, not by men, but by the Holy Spirit, and tested with Scripture. FYI.
 
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The Traditions that are important are inspired, not by men, but by the Holy Spirit, and tested with Scripture. FYI.
Common men invents and it becomes a law. Yeah right. I'll stick with my bible and test you. So far you have failed
 
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The Catholic Church did not kill a lot of Christians, especially if you take into account how long the Church has been around. Did they kill people? Yeah, probably. But they didn't burn witches at the stake, as did the Protestants. Generally, those you attribute to "the RCC killing Christians", they were found guilty of something and turned over to the state for punishment.

I can say, with certainty, that, of the major entities throughout Time, the Catholic Church was not one of those 'leaders' who killed lots of people.
Punishments were fataly brutal cause they turned from RCC
 
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A loving God does not work that way. He's not a puppet-master.
God gives us free will, and proposes how we should live. It's up to us to accept or reject the whole of it. I choose to accept. Including the 'hard teaching' of John 6.
My wills are based on circumstances around me. The air was already there for me to breath in. The wall was already there that caused me to turn left. The bank was there for me to deposit. The bank was there for the robber to rob. God put the bank there for both of us. I was happy. The robber was happy and God was happy. All three of us are happy. Tip: you have the wrong idea what God is. Why? You don't understand spiritual things of God. Who said so? The bible did. Who is the author for the bible? God is.
 
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Total depravity has been proven and backed with bible quotes. Return to the bible for confirmation but you won't understand unless you have first been regenerated and given to Jesus whom he died for.

No, it has not been. Furthermore even Pelagians have their proof texts - the Bible can be read to male it say what you want it to say, as was first pointed out by St. Irenaeus in the second cenrury, referring to Gnostic distortions of the meaning of the canonical Gospels and Pauline epistles.
 
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When some non-Christian joins your denomination and asks to know "what does the church believe" - I think your standard set of instruction to them will be steeped in quotes from tradition -- and some Bible texts.

When some non-Christian desires to join sola-scriptura denominations such as the one I am a member we inform them first of what the church believes - via Bible studies - where the Bible is the primary source book not tradition.

The contrast of how that works out "in real life" may be seen on this very thread - we pick a doctrine on the Bible and how traditions/ideas/etc are to be tested -- such as the case in this thread and "we see" just exactly how your ever-present appeal to tradition to get to the answer - and my ever-present appeal to the details in the text to get to the answer -- are contrasted.

We are each simply showing in real life example in this case- what we are doing in our respective denominations.

Another great example of how this works out in real life is the posts recently on predestination free-will, calvinism.

My response: sola scriptura. Today at 8:38 AM #922
Just as we would have expected.


So I keep pointing us back to Mark 7:6-13 as it totally slams supposedly sacred/infallible "tradition" via the "sola scriptura" method. And you respond by resorting to any other source - but the actual text making the point.



Is there any post on this thread where you "interpret" a word or phrase in Mark 7:6-13 differently than my quote of it???




So then -- Mark 7:6-13 - Christ quotes Moses - quotes Ex 20:12 and says it is the "Word of God" - and that this is what refutes the claims of the magisterium.

in Christ,

Bob

The Orthodox do not believe in the "magesterium," that is an RC concept. It would help this debate if you bothered to actually understand our belief system.

Also, again you are refusing to address my contention that in Mark 7:6-13 Christ is referring to himself, as indicated by John 1:1.
 
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Common men invents and it becomes a law. Yeah right. I'll stick with my bible and test you. So far you have failed
In your mind, maybe, but not in God's.
 
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