Sentences with phrase «scriptura who»

And it is misappropriated by the self - appointed Protestant guardians of the sola scriptura who behave as if the Bible were their possession and preserve its letter without its spirit.

Not exact matches

We who are Evangelicals recognize the need to address the widespread misunderstanding in our community that sola scriptura (Scripture alone) means nuda scriptura (literally, Scripture unclothed; i.e., denuded of and abstracted from its churchly context).

It reflects the same reductionist impulse of those Christians who transmute the Protestant principle of sola scriptura (scripture as the highest authority) into nuda scriptura (scripture as the only authority), and accordingly read the Bible as though the ancient councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, or Chalcedon had never happened.

Theo — «Those who come up with meaning that does not agree with the Analogia Scriptura need to rethink it.»

Those who come up with meaning that does not agree with the Analogia Scriptura need to rethink it.

There are many people in churches today who think they believe in Sola Scriptura, but really don't.

It is charged that it is only among those who have not maintained the principle of sola scriptura that doctrinal differences on central areas of the faith have surfaced.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.