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Now if only we can determine who should be trusted of the countless people with differing interpretations, who all claim they interpret by the power of the Holy Spirit.It is the Holy Spirit that illumines scripture, not three squares a day.
Ah okay. I thought that you were saying that the church in Thesseonian were arguing with Paul and not the Jews that did not believe.Before Paul came to the Bereans, he was arguing with the Thessalonians. The difference between the two is not that one group checked teaching against Scripture and the other didn't but rather one group accepted the teaching of an Apostle of Jesus Christ and the other didn't.
Now if only we can determine who should be trusted of the countless people with differing interpretations, who all claim they interpret by the power of the Holy Spirit.
I sure wouldn't trust a Roman Catholic priest to be my Spiritual Shepherd thats for sure.
And I have met some of the angriest, most hostile progressive thinking people that were former Catholics.
When I read the lame arguments against sola scriptura in this thread, I am forced to the conclusion that the lamentable schism which resulted in Protestatism was inevitable.
I thank God for Luther, though he is in so many ways not heroic to me.
Why?I sure wouldn't trust a Roman Catholic priest to be my Spiritual Shepherd thats for sure.
I find sola scriptura (as it is understood by fundamentalists) as being totally unacceptable and also non-biblical, no matter how na=many times they repeat theri slogans "No creed but the bible" and "Everyone is their own interpreter".
PRIMA SCRIPTURA
Scripture is indeed the prime authority, and, properly transalted, interpreted, and understood, scripture does provide all that the "knowledge" we need for our salvation. All that means is that secret knowledge is not "needed". We all understand what we need to be justified, and yes this is certainly within scripture.
Scripture is also the final authority and standard of reference, the authority to which interpretations and teachings of the Holy Spirit must be judged. No doctrine shall be in conflict with scripture. That does NOT imply that there shall be no revelations of doctrine that is not in scripture.
Scripture MUST be viewed through the lens of Tradition. In the end, interpretations of scripture (and all Tradition) also must be viewed through the lens of reason the experience of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit DID NOT leave us orphans. He speaks to us today, individually and through His Church.
Any division is because these denominations fail to truly resort to true sola scriptura. They do what your church does and raise man made traditions up to a level that presupposes the true view that scripture is our only infallible rule of faith.Sola scriptura doesn't make any sense. Using it, we've developed thousands of tiny, independent sects, all teaching their own little contradictory thing, confusing the faithful, and perpetuating error.
Any division is because these denominations fail to truly resort to true sola scriptura. They do what your church does and raise man made traditions up to a level that presupposes the true view that scripture is our only infallible rule of faith.
You know full well that Christ used Scripture to judge Tradition. This argument is an open shut case!
Oh, the True Sola Scriptura[sup](®)[/sup].
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