As a Lutheran I thought of faith as the centerpiece of my religion: sola
scriptura with its extra-biblical simul iustus et peccator.
Not exact matches
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.
The analogy I had in mind
with sola fide works like this: Sola fide never meant that nobody would ever do any work, and likewise sola
scriptura never meant that nobody would ever repair to tradition.
I finished reading The Shape of Sola
Scriptura last week, and
with his emphasis on creeds and the teaching office of the church, it made me ask a few related questions as the one above.
Ultimately, it usually ends
with even the most ardent sola
scriptura Lutheran appealing to tradition, where I simply do not follow.
The question really is, is there truth and revelation in the Bible, and we will go
with the sola
scriptura, or am I going to go outside
scriptura and come up
with my own best like - able picture of God, my God of the day.
Sola
Scriptura we declare and yet what is seen all over the place in the west is that absurd image of the man
with long fair hair, simpering eyes and Greco / Roman features.
Martin Luther presented the theology of Sola
scriptura that the bible is the sole source to live and understand what Christianity is all about... but the bible itself does not come with a table of contents to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this
scriptura that the bible is the sole source to live and understand what Christianity is all about... but the bible itself does not come
with a table of contents to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola
Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this
Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong
with this teaching.
I think, for example, it is arguable that the small Karaite Jewish sect that relies upon the Bible only and rejects the Talmud and the Protestant reformers
with their similar reliance upon sola
Scriptura came up
with standards that can be applied practically and that are rooted in the traditions they seek to reform.
For many years I have struggled
with deep seated doubts about Protestantism which clings so blindly to the Reformation's Sola
Scriptura overreaction which gained its foothold at a time when «enlightenment» was only just beginning to teach us how to sign our names other than
with an «X».
On the Sunday morning before this year's South Carolina primary, Dr. Carl Broggi, the pastor of Community Bible Church in Beaufort, turned over his pulpit — emblazoned
with the Protestant watchword «sola
scriptura,» to GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz.
I suppose these critical remarks boil down to the following questions: Can the sola
Scriptura principle coexist
with a view of the Church that is truly anchored «deep in history»?
Under the slogan «sola
Scriptura,» Protestants translated the Bible into the vernacular, and
with the help of the press distributed Bibles to an unprecedented number of people.
Mr. Leithart claims that sola
Scriptura is an epistemological doctrine answering the question, From what source do I learn how I can commune
with God?
If we sit under Barth as a teacher, does this mean we have to abandon sola
scriptura by replacing Scripture
with Barth's ideas?
But it is one thing just to claim that theological disagreements (such as sola
scriptura) are not the only problem; it's another to refute
with arguments Gregory's meticulously argued claim that this did, in fact, constitute a serious problem.
In addition to this series of granite works Nauman produced fifty prints
with the same phrase, «PARTIAL TRUTH», rendered in the same
scriptura monumentalis font, for the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art on the occasion of their 1997 exhibition Bruce Nauman: 1985 — 1996: Drawings, Prints, and Related Works.