Subject: Sola Scriptura supported by bible? |
Bible Note: Greetings Dschaertel! I have been following your posts my friend. I just have a couple of quick questions for you. Do you believe that every writting is inspired by God? If I wrote a Gospel of Jesus today, would it be just as authoritative as the one Matthew wrote? Would something written later than Paul, and teaching a totally different message, be more authoritative than Paul's letters? It seems to me that one only has two choices, either accept everything written as being from God or realize that not everything written is inspired by God. The first choice leads to nonsense, since logic itself is violated when we accept two different works which say two different things about Jesus (a logical contradiction). The second choice leads to a Canon - a recoginition that some works are inspired and some are not. This is all the New Testament Canon is - a recognition by the early Church of which books were inspired by God. You seem to argue that the Church has authority, so why wouldn't the Church has authority to classify which books are inspired and which aren't? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |