Subject: Sola Scriptura supported by bible? |
Bible Note: "The problem is that one of us is wrong about what it says. " This is why the tree in the Garden is so important. I don't believe that it is necessarily a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of submitting that human desire to be the judge. Suppose that you thaught infant baptism was wrong. But your church all of a sudden decided that it was going to practice this. What would you do? Is the question one of being right, or one of being submissive and obedient? I have stated that I am not a Catholic. But I believe that there should be one church. I think that the division is wrong, rooted in human pride and an unwillingness to submit. I am not pro-protestant or pro-catholic. These are divisions of men. The Bible can become a destructive tool when we use it as a means to promote our agendas, to feed our egos, to exclude and label people. This certainly is not the purpose of the scriptures. Sola Scritpura is a doctrine that is not taught in the Bible. What it does is it gives every person the "authority" to decide for themsleves what is right. This is what we got kicked out of the Garden for. This choosing what is right doesn't unite people, it divides people. You say there is agreement that the Bible is true, and I agree with that as well. But I don't believe in it's sufficiency, because it isn't a matter of sufficiency, or right and wrong. It is a matter of one's pride and willingness to submit. |