[RaceBannon]

You left out something:

If you actually do the study, you would see what was actually taught, and what you read and came to a conclusion of, would be from the Bible, and the Bible alone, backed up by the Bible alone.

[dangus]

>>You left out something:

>>If you actually do the study, you would see what was actually taught, and what you read and came to a conclusion of, would be from the Bible, and the Bible alone, backed up by the Bible alone.

O My Gosh! Biblically-based teachings! How novel! Why, Gee, I never saw somebody quote the scripture in a bible study before!!!

</sarcasm>

Yeah, precisely... you get a preliminary sentence to make you think in terms of an issue, then you read a selected passage. Naturally, you come to a given conclusion which was suggested by the passage.

Suppose I were to say:

What is it which causes one to be saved? James 2:14-17 says it is: __________________________________

The person who did that excercise would have a 100% biblical answer that would not exactly lead him to the protestant doctrine of sola fidelis.