***I know you’ll enjoy reading this.***
I am and thank you for the notification.
***What was shocking about the article was that both the author of the article and the senior managing editor of CT claim that this trip back to Rome is a good thing.***
Shocking that the word of Jesus is, well, true.
***To endorse a trip back to these practices of ancient Roman Catholicism is to reject the principle of sola scriptura being the normative authority for the beliefs and practices of the church.***
I think that the truth is, to a certain extent, getting through. And is scaring Reformers who possess grey matter.
***If we examine them closely we will find evidence that sola scriptura has been abandoned as a governing principle—if not formally, at least in practice. ***
May the Name of Jesus be praised.
***But what does this do to sola scriptura? It negates it.***
As does the Bible.
***But why are literate American Christians running away from sola scriptura at a time when searching the Scriptures (especially using computer technology) has never been easier? ***
Because the Bible itself repudiates it.
***I urge my fellow evangelicals to seriously consider the consequences of rejecting sola scriptura as the formal principle of our theology.***
You may wind up with eternal salvation with God in Heaven.
Where does the Bible "repudiate" sola scriptura?
The word of God repudiates the doctrines of men and the "vain janglings" of tradition.
I already have salvation and will end up with God in Heaven. Hope to see you there, too, Mark.