Subject: Sola Scriptura supported by bible? |
Bible Note: I cannot defend my assertions from Scripture. All assertions regarding the canon of Scripture must by necessity be extra-biblical, since the table of contents of the Bible is not divinely inspired. However, your question, "How about some EXPLICIT scripture which excludes the possibility of the Church recognizing the books outside the Protestant canon for that rather dogmatic statement?" does not address the assertion I made, in any case. Your argument that the church defines what is inspired or not is quite simply an argument from silence based on a flawed notion of infallibility. My argument for the Protestant canon is based on the Jewish canon of the Hebrew Scriptures (or did God change His mind on what He inspired when He moved from covenanting with one nation to covenanting with all tribes and tongues and nations?) and based also on the debate that developed in the Church as the apostolic age faded into the distant past. Even Jerome agreed with me. Which doesn't make Jerome right, of course, but at least demonstrates that the issue was not one that had been settled and only codified as a matter of formality in the 16th century. Especially considering that Jerome's Vulgate was THE BIBLE for the RCC for over a milennium. So can you defend the assertion that the church infallibly can determine which books are canonical and which ones aren't, since it took them 1550 years and a Protestant Reformation to suddenly make its infallible decision? --Joe! |