Jim B
Well-Known Member
“Bible alone”
Provides no authority to know what is scripture.
Provides no authority to know what is not scripture.
Provides no authority to safeguard and protect scripture from errors.
Provides no authority to teach scripture without error.
Provides no authority to interpret scripture.
Reasons to oppose the doctrine of the “Bible alone”
Blind or illiterate and cannot read scripture. (Most people before the 20th century were illiterate)
Rare & Expensive (even after the printing press)
Faith comets by hearing not reading.
The Bible alone does not teach the doctrine of the “Bible alone”.
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Do you really expect anyone to read all of your rambling post? We do have lives, you know.
Regarding the Bible: it is considered to be the pure and inerrant word of God. It is the authority. Of course, it must be a) read and b) understood. Other than that it is simply marks on paper.
You Catholics are unable to think for yourselves, so you rely on clergy -- the Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests -- to tell you what it means. Your denomination has twisted the meaning of God's Holy Word so that it bears little resemblance to what the Bible actually says. There is no better example than your posting one out-of-context verse after another to support your twisted doctrine. Thankfully, the days have past when people are killed or excommunicated by your officials because they disagreed with the (manufactured) "party line". Here is but a single example...
"Hail, Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death."
This is a prayer to a dead woman, who is called the mother of God. But God has no mother! Then she -- this long-dead woman -- is asked to "pray for us sinners". a) Why ask someone else to pray for you, especially a dead person. Why not pray directly to God, as Scripture instructs us to do? b) and "pray for us sinners"? What is that? Because of Christ's sacrifice I am no longer regarded as a sinner. To say otherwise is to deny Christ!
When one sins, there is nothing to be gained by repeating this chant over and over because a RCC priest -- we're all priests -- tells you to to gain forgiveness. => There is nothing even approaching that behavior in the Bible. <=
Are Catholics seriously unable to read (or at least hear) God's Word and hear what God "speaks" directly to them? Hebrews 5:12-13 says, "For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant." Yet Catholics depend on someone else to teach them even after they have been believers for many years. "...
The Roman Catholic denomination...
Provides no authority to know what is scripture.
Provides no authority to know what is not scripture.
Provides no authority to safeguard and protect scripture from errors.
Provides no authority to teach scripture without error.
Provides no authority to interpret scripture.
In fact it does just the opposite!
The Roman Catholic denomination has built a false "temple" filled with one unScriptural dogma after another. No wonder you oppose sola scriptura! Instead of believing God, you believe the teachings of fallible men who feed you false "milk" week after week, year after year. And praying to a dead woman won't save you, now or in the hour of your death.
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