URAVIP2ME Yes I agree..... and add the words of God are useful for teaching, rebuking, training and correcting but they are NOT ALONE used! Jesus left behind a Church with his AUTHORITY to use the scriptures to Train, Correct, Teach and Rebuke she the Catholic Church is the Authority!
2 Timothy...
However, as Jesus taught, the spiritually older men are to teach from the Scriptures as religious truth - John 17:17; 1 Timothy 3:1-10; 1 Timothy 6:3; Titus1:9 ' the faithful word ' is God's Word the Bible.
Jesus warned about the 'traditions of men' ( traditions or customs taught as being...
It's not a case of wanting to identify with something.
It's rather a case of appreciating someone for who they are, and showing it. If that identifies one with it, that's okay.
For example, we don't want to identify with how someone views injustice in order to have a sense of love of goodness...
Sorry for interrupting.
Curious-short question/short answer.
What is the context of these verses:
John 21:25 (If there are more scriptures not recorded, why sola scriptura?)
John 5:39 (If scriptures point to christ, why not go to the source and not what's written about him?
This has...
Sounds like a yes to me.
I've got no dramas with that view, but Roman Catholicism doesn't subscribe to sola scriptura. Why would you expect them to be able to identify all of their beliefs in the Bible?
It's much like a Quranist demanding a Sunni or Shia ignores hadith.
Jesus promoted “sola scriptura” and so did the apostles.....”it is written” was his response to the devil’s temptations. These all quoted from the Hebrew Scriptures which Paul confirmed were inspired by God. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; Acts 17:2; Titus1:9)
The apostles admonished other Christians to...
Your idea is itself not supported by Scripture.
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
-Matthew 10:34
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and...
This doesn't address whether one can choose to be saved with or wothout baptism, this addresses more the overall topic of whether there are absolute right or wrongs, or standards in the Bible. And whether it's adherents are given authority to teach or correct another adherent. If so, then it...
You are either delusional or lying, not sure which?
I've sourced all my posts.
Anything on the Gnostic gospels comes from the expert Elaine Pagels (Elaine Pagels, is an American religious historian who writes on the Gnostic Gospels. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at...
What you are saying is not true in regards to what I am posting. I am not posting my own made up stories as many are doing here (including you) that just want to post wiki articles and you tube videos. I have at my disposal many books that include the early church writing as well as the gnostic...
The early churches were centralized early on, 2nd cent, unless you want to deny history. The Catholic church is the only one with a history in Christianity for 1500 years. Solid continuity are mark of an institutional structure (presbyter-bishops and deacons) designed to preserve the apostolic...
Despite our theological differences and the small matter that we are followers of entirely different religions, I agree that the church became corrupted during this period of time when the church leaders went from being spiritual leaders to worldly letters and started introducing their own ideas...
Was it predicted that the true church established by Christ would be apostatized?
Yes it was.
Who created the divisions which created many denominations? One lie breeds many lies, isn't it?
THE PROCESS OF APOSTASY
How was the multitude of the disciples was apostatized? Apostle Peter...
Do you know what the Greek word commonly translated as "elder" is? It will go a long way in helping you understand whether or not the early Church had a hierarchy (a viewpoint which is the overwhelming scholarly consensus, by the way).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity#Organization
There is no rub.
There was no heirarchy in the early church, at least not in the way we see in Roman catolicism. The heirarchial system came about in the early 300's. It was patterned after the Roman Empire and adopted later by the Roman catholics.
Yes, there are elders in each congregation of...
I hear you loud and clear MC and see that you have been given eyes to see some of my faults and flaws. It's one of the reasons I'm often quite hesitant to speak (or in this case write) lest I find my feet standing where they ought not. It was not my intention to be an arbitrator at all and...
Shalom JB, you do present a compelling case for extreme patience with one another, and I do hope we all can attain to that level. And I do like the example of the Bereans, I wish everyone would be like them. It does happen though that some will not believe and remain fractious as in the case...
If christians are being decieved, by what method can they test the spirits if the spirits are the deception? Assuming, in this thread only, that christians could be decieved, dont know it, and may be testing the spirits of their illusion with their illusions.
I don't think that is quite what the Bible says. It does say Satan can transform himself into and angel of light and warns against deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons ( 1 Tim. 1:1-2) But believers are to test all things;hold fast to what is good. (1 Thess.5:21) by holding to sound doctrine...