DragonHawk1959
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There are many reasons why (Bible alone Doctrine) doesn't work. I'm going to share one I came across today.
Today I opened my Bible to
Ephesians 5: 29 no one ever hated their own body, but they nourish and care for their bodies, just as Christ does the church
No one ever hated their own body?? WTF!?! All kinds of people hate their body! I passionately hate my flesh and think being human is gross. I hate eating, hate bowel movements, bodily functions, boogers, tooth decay, and if I could be delivered from this body and be a spirit today, I would do so, and I pray it happens, I'm just not going to kill myself because I'm waiting for God's timing (And I don't have firearms). I have also known people who starve themselves, commit suicide, induce vomiting, whip themselves, burn themselves, cut themselves, and abuse their bodies in all sorts of ways.
Yet Scripture says no one ever hated their body but they nourish and care for it as Christ does the Church. Total falsehood! Duh!
This Scripture verse bothers me because yet again I have come across a verse in Scripture that appears completely false. I would like to tell people that Scripture is reliable and doesn't contain falsehood, but I can present multiple Scripture verses that don't mean what they say.
It bothers me because people constantly use Scripture to rebuke people and assume various people are condemned to the "Lake of fire", yet how do we know when the Scripture actually means what it says? Very often Scripture doesn't mean what it says...like John 14:14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
But the main reason Solascriptura doesn't work is because it is a Doctrine that destroys itself. If the Bible is the final and only authority, then there should have to be something in Scripture that says it is. I will renounce my Catholic Faith today if you can show me where Solascriptura is found in the Bible. Solascriptura has splintered Christianity into thousands of denominations because the Bible is soooo confusing. THE BIBLE DIVIDES PEOPLE!
So, don't condemn someone for doing something that isn't found in the Bible, and how about you don't use Scripture to condemn at all, because Scripture contains clear blatant falsehood, as I have shown you and is loaded with Hyperbole, poetry, parable, and symbolic speech that isn't meant to be taken literal.
Yet people constantly use Scripture to judge and condemn other faiths or say "don't do that, it isn't in the Bible". Nothing in the Bible says something has to be in the Bible to be true!
Most people who claim Sola-Scriptura is sufficient unto itself ... DON'T believe it. They load on thousands of years of biblical instruction and interpretation. So much so that they are quite happy to refute the bible itself.
99.9% of Christians think they understand the parable of Sodom and Gomorrah. Yet though the Bible is unusually lucid on the subject:
Pride, lack of concern for the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:48-49);
Hatred of strangers and cruelty to guests (Wisdom 19:13);
Arrogance (Sirach/Ecclesiaticus 16:8);
Evildoing, injustice, oppression of the widow and orphan (Isaiah 1:17);
Adultery (in those days, the use of another man’s property), and lying (Jeremiah 23:12)
Not even one of the Prophets mentions same-sex behavior in relation to the cities of the plains, yet most Christians insist on this unbiblical understanding.
Given the words of the Prophets it is clear that the men of the city did not trust these men who had come to Sodom and wished to know their business in the city.