Subject: Sola Scriptura supported by bible? |
Bible Note: " It defines what the church is, and tells me a great deal about human nature and this place called heaven. However, you seem to think that none of that information should be trusted" That is not what I have said at all. But you demonstrate why I continue to challenge. I have stated that I take the Bible very seriously,and in fact that is why it is so important to me to determine what it actually says and what it doesn't. But rather than impute meaning to it, like Sola Scriptura, I believe that I need to accept that in some cases the Bible just doesn't have an answer. You know, like infant baptism. The Bible just doesn't have an answer. Yet churches divide over this issue and both sides are convinced they are right. In my mind they have missed the point. " Which church is the one He reigns through? The Protestant one? The Catholic one? The Orthodox one? The Coptic one? The Church Universal and Triumphant? You can't answer that, so in effect you are saying that there is no clear authority. " You see, you missed it again. The Bible says there is only one church, one faith, one baptism. These are divisions of men. Scripture doesn't support this. Yet they carry their Bibles to battle over the issues that are not theirs to fight over. In my mind this is an abuse of the scriptures. It is using them for man's own glory, his own need to be right. "What if I attend a church that teaches the bodily resurrection never took place? Who are you to tell me that he is alive? " I can only appeal to the witness of those who were there. And yes, that is recorded in the scriptures. But you missunderstand me if you think that I am saying the scriptures are of no value. I am saying they should not be a crutch for our own pride. The battles over doctrine are nothing more than human pride. I know this discussion has been long winded and a little off course. You seem to think that I am against the Bible or something. I am not. I read it every day, attend several Bible studies, etc.. The topic of this discussion is Sola Scriptura. I believe the scriptures are inspired and "profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness". Let's look at this word profitable. Here are the other two places it is used in scripture: 1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. Niether of them mention scripture. They are more concerned with our behavior than our Biblical knowledge. |