Tag: Sola Scriptura
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The Critical Importance of Sola Scriptura
God’s revelation to man is mediated through the Scriptures. Our faith is predicated on the living Word of God, namely Christ Himself. He is the divine Logos Whom created the universe. Christ reveals to us all that He wants us to know and do (faith and praxis) through the Scriptures. The Scriptures (God’s Word) are…
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The Roman Catholic Church in Analysis
Background Since its beginning, with the Edict of Thessalonica in 380 AD, making Trinitarian Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic church has, over the centuries, accumulated a vast corpus of doctrine/dogma. These beliefs which have accreted are simply the traditions of man and most have absolutely no basis in Scriptura.…
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Sola Scriptura
Scripture aloneIs our greatestAuthority It stands aboveMan made TraditionsAnd any fallible Magisterium It gives usPurity and completenessOf doctrine It guards againstHeresies and errorMakes us fully equipped It is God’s WordTheopneustos in GreekLiterally God breathed It is our soleInfallible standardThere is none greater It is not foundIn Roman CatholicismOr Eastern Orthodoxy It is the bulwarkWhich protectsThe…
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A Response to Reformed Presbyterians: Semper Reformanda
Background The sine qua non of Reformed theology is soteriology. Covenant theology and certain types of eschatology are not essential core distinctives. Sadly, the majority of Reformed Presbyterians seem to be so bigoted and locked into their infantile theological cliques that they look down upon and refuse to recognize believers such as Reformed Baptists as…
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Biblical Exegesis: Catholic and Protestant Methodologies Compared
Scripture several times explicitly lists Jesus’ brothers and names them, as well as referencing sisters. Yet despite the clear evidence and witness of Scripture, Catholic interpreters will assert that Mary and Joseph never had sex (Mary has the status of a consecrated virgin who remained a virgin throughout her whole life) and thus deny that…
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The Glorious Protestant Reformation: Some Thoughts on Reformation Day
On this day, October 31st, in the year of our Lord, 1517, an Augustinian friar (monk) in the Roman Catholic church, Martin Luther (1483-1546), who was also a theologian, priest, and a professor at the University at Wittenberg, nailed his 95 theses, which were theological problems he saw with Catholic theology as well as practices…