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NASB | John 17:22 "The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 17:22 "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one, just as We are one; |
Bible Question:
God the Son On another page some one asked is Jesus Christ, God. I answered that God is Jesus Christ. I know some of you answered that Jesus Christ is God. I am an Australian, and follow English Theological Doctrine (such as I know). There exists the Westminster Confession of Faith - 'In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons of one substance, power, and eternity; God the Father, ***God the Son***, and God the Holy Ghost. The Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son'. What I wanted to know is what other confessions of faith exist among christians. And what other standards peculiar to the different denominations are there. To me saying God is Jesus Christ or God is the Son is a confession of my faith. I hope I am still accepted here? Is it a Catholic site? |
Bible Answer: Sola scriptura ____________________ "Instead of tradition being the interpreter of Scripture, sola scriptura makes Scripture the interpreter of tradition." ____________________ Sola scriptura (Latin by Scripture alone) is one of five important slogans of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. It meant that Scripture is the Church's only infallible rule for deciding issues of faith and practices that involve doctrines. The intention of the Reformation was to correct the Catholic Church by appeal to the uniqueness of the Bible's authority, and to reject Christian tradition as a source of original authority alongside the Bible or in addition to the Bible. The singular authority of Scripture (...) Sola scriptura reverses the order of the Church's authority, as it as understood in the Catholic tradition. Instead of tradition being the interpreter of Scripture, sola scriptura makes Scripture the interpreter of tradition. It is the foundational claim of the Reformation. Sola scriptura did not originally signify a radical rejection of all authority of the Church to interpret the Scriptures, but rather represented a claim that the teaching authority of the Church is regulated by the Bible, constrained by Scripture in both a limiting and a directing sense. The Reformers argued that the Scriptures are guaranteed to remain true to their divine source, and thus, only insofar as the Church retains scriptural faith it is assured of all the promises of God. Likewise, if it were possible for the Church to entirely lose Biblical faith, its authority would be reduced to nothing. Therefore, the Reformers targeted traditions which the Roman church had elevated to central issues of the Christian faith (such as transubstantiation, communion in one kind, that works of saints add to the church's treasury of merit, the doctrine of purgatory, the veneration of images, masses dedicated to the dead, and especially that the pope is the head of the Church), which the Reformers believed had no basis in Scripture, in the attempt to prove that the Church had gradually substituted traditions as the primary definition of the faith instead of the Bible, in order to demand of the Church that it should return single-mindedly to the Scriptures alone as the foundation of catholic faith. ____________________ To read much more on this subject, go to: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_scriptura) |