10-Point Biblical Refutation of Sola Scriptura

National Catholic Register ^ | December 11, 2016 | Dave Armstrong

[ebb tide]

Also not Scripture:

sola scriptura

What's your point?

[Big Red Badger]

Who’s Vicar???
There’s Your Circular Logic!

[vrwc1]

Divorce is most certainly in Scripture! Plus some of the other things you mentioned. That doesn’t make them biblical “tradition”. And to say that they are all Protestant “tradition” is absurd.

[Big Red Badger]

Reason and Logic
Which is beyond your cult.

[ConservativeMind]

Was this Pope elected by the world’s Catholic Cardinals to be the official, only leader of the Catholic church on Earth?

If so, you are grossly wrong to say he wasn’t. To think the world’s Cardinals elected him in err is to say all of those who elected him, and the Pope himself, are evil.

In essence, you are saying the Catholic church is led by Satan and his henchmen.

[Big Red Badger]

Satan would have the Blood of Saints
On it’s hands...
Oh Wait-—the Harlot in Revelation!
Yuppers——satanic

[SubMareener]

Jesus said He would send a “helper”, the Spirit of Truth, to His disciples after he ascended into Heaven. So we are to listen to the Spirit because each of us gets individual commandments on what we should do. And not do, for that matter. A firm grounding in the Scriptures is necessary to ward off the wiles of the Devil, and his minions, (take your pick), but we must listen to “what the Spirit is telling the churches” for our daily guidance.

[ebb tide]

In essence, you don’t know what you’re babbling about.

[ebb tide]

So we are to listen to the Spirit because each of us gets individual commandments on what we should do. And not do, for that matter. A firm grounding in the Scriptures is necessary to ward off the wiles of the Devil, and his minions, (take your pick), but we must listen to “what the Spirit is telling the churches” for our daily guidance.

You sound no different than Jorge Bergoglio and his listening to some "spirit" in his evil Sin-Nod.

[moonhawk]

If the Bible was meant to be the only source of Revelation for the Body of Christ, and all we had to do was read it and allow the Holy Spirit to guide us in understanding it, Then every single one of the thous ands of denominations would agree on every single point of Doctrine necessary for our Salvation.

Sadly, that is not the case. So, does the Holy Spirit tell different believers different things, or are they listening to a different spirit?

[SubMareener]

Well, you check with the Scriptures to see if what the spirit you are hearing is the Spirit of Truth. It is obvious to anyone who has read the Bible that the current Pope is not Catholic. He is not even a Christian.

I can tell you that having walked with the Spirit of Truth for over 70 years, you know when you are on the right path. If you aren’t experiencing His guidance, then read your Bible, and pray for Him to come into your life. Ask Mother Mary, or any of the Saints for help if you feel the need to do that.

[Big Red Badger]

Milk and Cookies keeping you Up?
.
Or your mad that all you ‘Cath Coc’
Is just ignored propaganda that we all
Cringe at like Pharisees walking by?
.
You’ve Perverted the True Gospel of Christ with False Idols and repentance is your
Only Hope.

[Big Red Badger]

In Love I say this.

[ifinnegan]

“ If the Bible was meant to be the only source of Revelation for the Body of Christ, “

Who says that? The Bible itself says His creation is revelation, declaring His glory.

“and all we had to do was read it and allow the Holy Spirit to guide us in understanding it,”

This is a non-sequitur, where would the idea come from that this is all we should have to do.

Still, I’d also say your premise misses out on the body of Christ in that there are many members, each their own purpose as a body has arms, legs, lungs, different cell types, enzymes etc…But all are one body.

[Karliner]

Appears the Catolica’s and false prophets, the idols of Sumeria,transubstantiation, demands priests remain celibate... the church of Sardis and Laodecia are as poor.
It it the Word that brightens a spirit, not some Pope dressed in silks like the Sanhedrin, the scribes and pharisees
So many do not read the Bible just like the priests of old gave themselves status they were the only ones to teach the uneducated masses( and kept them so).

Mt23:33
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.…

[the_daug]

“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

[the_daug]

A lot to protest little has changed these last 500 years.

[Alberta's Child]

The miracle of the loaves and fishes is instructive in this regard. It happens to be the only miracle Jesus Christ performed in His life on earth that shows up in all four Gospels.

Some of the early Church scholars saw great importance in the numbers described in the miracle. The five barley loaves represent the five books of the Pentateuch. The two fishes represent Moses and Elijah — the two great Old Testament figures who were involved in God’s earlier miracles of feeding His people with bread.

1. The bread represents the Christian faith that is being taught to the people.

2. The apostles represent the Church that will bring that faith to them. It is important to note that Jesus never speaks to the crowd directly during this miracle, but instructs his apostles instead.

3. The leftover bread is an acknowledgement that the human race cannot fully “handle” the Christian faith as it is being taught to them at the time. So the twelve loaves of leftover bread represent the deposit of faith that will be carried on through God’s Church (the twelve apostles) into the future and more fully revealed through time. This would be the clearest indication of the role of Tradition in salvation history.

[Skwor]

Honestly this piece is one of the weakest arguments against Sola Scriptura I have read. For starters they literally use the Scriptures to argue the Scriptures are not the sole authority. The creates a circular argument from the beginning, but it gets worse because the points made do not support other sources as doctrinal standards but instead only refer to knowledge or events that was do not have a full record of.

I fail to see how that refutes Scripture as the primary source to validate God's Word and intent.

The point often ignored is the issue most have when any religion decides DOCTRINE, outside of Scripture, re-interpreting or flat out in opposition to Scripture.

I have no issue with being informed by tradition. I have every issue with "man" telling me Scripture means something it obviously does not say and telling me tradition in any sense carries more weight than any Scripture that speaks on a subject.

Funny how this verse always gets ignored in this discussion

Mark 7:9 He said to them, “All too well you [e]reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. 10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 11But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban”—’ (that is, a gift to God), 12then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, 13making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

[Skwor]

His point is that it is capricious to say Sola Scripture is wrong because it is not specifically mentioned in the Scriptures but to say all those things are right when they are also not in scripture.

It makes your argument logically inconsistent. If your base position cannot support the tenets of your belief then your posit’s base is flawed.