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NASB | Titus 2:1 But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Titus 2:1 But as for you, teach the things which are in agreement with sound doctrine [which produces men and women of good character whose lifestyle identifies them as true Christians]. |
Subject: What doctrines are essential? |
Bible Note: "A list of fundamental doctrines would begin with: "the absolute authority of Scripture over tradition (sola Scriptura)," Total nonsense: scripture says nothing of the kind, there is no proof text and the Bible expressively says the opposite: 2Th 2:15 So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us. How can anyone with an ounce of nous not see this verse is saying there are authoritative doctrines in the Church committed to writing and delivered verbally; both of which must be held too. It really is completely beyond me why this verse is swept under the carpet. It disproves 'sola scriptura'. Why will they not accept this clear biblical teaching. 2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; does not say Only Scripture, not do we find any words synonymous with complete or sufficient. Again, not held by any Christian writer until Luther in the Sixteenth century. Furthermore, Hardly anyone apart for a small elite COULD READ until the modern era. Hardly anyone could own a Bible until Gutenberg invented the printing press. Thus only the tiniest minority of people had any access to Christian truth for 1500 years! Christ did not send the Apostles to write but to preach, hardly any of them wrote anything. Was there no Christian truth in the decades from the Ascension until the first NT books were composed. The list of the Biblical canon is not in scripture and is thus a 'tradition' itself. |