“The fault is not in the Scripture but in the human heart.”
Oh, so it isn’t that sola scriptura is just unscriptural. It’s UNWORKABLE AND USELESS. Gee, that should make Protestants feel soooo much better.
Its a human thing. You and I are never going to agree on everything all the time.
So, we cooperate where we can. Agree to disagree where we can’t. Love each other in all seasons.
God directs the orchestra.
You rashly attribute the differences of opinions among Christians to 'Sola Sciptura' - namely, the Protestant belief that the Holy Scripture is the only infallible rule of Christian doctrine. The fault is not in the Scripture but in the human heart.
Amen. And it is God alone who exchanges the heart of stone for a heart of flesh.
"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps." -- Proverbs 16:9
Martin Luther advocated that the Roman Catholic Church utilize the conceot of the five solas the five fundamentalbeliefs of what became the Protestant reformation
To say the protestants focused only on Sola Scriptura - by scripture alone is a misnomer the usage of sola (adjective) and the scriptura (noun) are in the ablative case rather than the nominative case - it indicates that the Bible does not stand alone apart from God, but rather that it is the instrument of God whiche he reveals hinself through the faith in Christ
solo Christus christ alone - christ is the mediator, not Mary or the sacraments as administered by the pope (sacerdotalism) - Luther advocated the priesthood of all believers
sola fide by faith alone - salvation by faith alone doctrine by which the church stands or falls (articulus stantis et cadentitis ecclesiae
sola gratia - by grace alone salvation is an unearned gift from God for Jesus’ sake God acts alone to save the sinner unlike modern evangelicalism - synergism Armininaism is that the person has a free will choice to either acceot or reject Gods grace
Soli Deo Gloria glory to God Alone all glory is to god alone.
yes there are problems within the protestant churches, similar to the problems within the Catholic Church
clarifying that Protestant utilize all five pillars of faith. but many church denominations have rejected these pillars. The Protestant Reformation allowed the Catholc Church to correct many of its faults too.
YET ANOTHER false flag anti-Catholic bigoted thread posted by our separated brethren.
“Just for Catholics” — What a stupid joke.
“The apparent unity of the Roman Catholic Church is illusory, as any informed Catholic would know.”
Seems like there is a guy at the top who can fire clergy and ban memebers if he wants to. Seems pretty unified to me. I’m not seeing how that is “illusory”.
Freegards
Very succint article and timely; kudos BTL!
The concise mistake is that we study God’s Word through the lens of “study bibles”, commentaries, creeds, constitutions and other regurgitated ideas “reknowned” believers have delivered and who knows where or what thier sources may have been.
We believe in the inerrancy, the inspiration, the authority, the superiority, and the sufficiency of the Scriptures. So why must we study through the filter of a theological cook book.
I believe our fast food lifestyles have influenced our spiritual nutritional needs. A theological happy meal each Lord’s Day will not sustain your growth and no amount of “christian” media will substitute for prayerfull study.
Throw out everthing other than your unscathed translation and your Greek-Hebrew lexicons. Remember you will be judged for every word that comes from your mouth and if all your toungue does is parrot tripe, inspect your heart!
Soli Deo Gloria!
“In the first place, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it. No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval.”
I Corinthians 11:18-19