I do know what Sola Scriptura is and how it differs from "solo" scriptura. I am just struggling with a need to cite authoritative sources like lexicons and web pages to prove the Magisterium is wrong and unnecessary.
>> “ I am just struggling with a need to cite authoritative sources like lexicons and web pages to prove the Magisterium is wrong and unnecessary.” <<
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No website necessary; the Bible says so! Christ condemned the practices of those Nicolaitans in the letters to the churches.
You just don’t get it do you? Learn what Sola Scriptura means then maybe we can have a conversation. I’m not talking Solo Scriptura either. Learn the difference.
How are we supposed to believe that you understand the difference when you keep asking questions that indicate that you don’t understand the difference? You ask why we would try to understand what words in scripture mean. Really? You have never read Paul’s commendation of the Bereans? Even Paul said to check with scripture to see if what he taught was correct yet you expect us to take the word of some guy in Rome? The guys in Rome are teaching stuff that ain’t in scripture or contradict scripture.