Less Than Flatering Endorsers of Sola Scriptura
Well I've been at it again, debating Protestant hardliners (who suggest that the Bible is all you need, etc.). I was looking for some classical texts to prove a few points. Which is very time consuming, some are as hard to come by as hens teeth. After an hour here and there, I finally got what I was looking for...
Sola Scriptura in the early Church
http://www.cin.org/users/jgallegos/sola_her.htm
And here's some quotes to illustrate why, a "Bible Alone" theology is dangerous.
"If you produce from the divine scriptures something that we all share, we shall have to listen. But those words which are not found in the scriptures are under no circumstances accepted by us, especially since the Lord warns us, saying, In vain they worship me, teaching human commandments and precepts (Mt 15:9)"Debate with Maximinus,1
(addai note, he rejected the doctrine of Jesus' divinity, as well as the Holy Spirit's divinity, as well as the doctrine of the Trinity, all because they were not found "explicetly in the scriptures", and thus concluded they were "the doctrines of men").
Pelagius expresses himself as follows: "What we read, therefore, let us believe; and what we do not read, let us deem it wicked to add; and let it suffice to have said this of all cases." Nature and Grace,46[39]
(Addai note, taught humans were saved by their own works apart from God's grace)
"He[Eutyches] said that he was ready to receive the decrees of the holy fathers assembled in the Councils of Nicea and Ephesus, and promises to subscribe to their definitions. But if in their declarations anything by chance should be found either unsound or false, he says that he will neither reject or approve of it: but search the scripture alone as being more solid than all the decrees of the fathers."Council of Chalcedon, Act 1
(Addai note, this guy was the reason why Chalcedon happened, which ultimately split my Church from the Catholics and Byzantines. He basically said, Christ's divinity swallowed up his humanity, so their was little or no humanity to Christ, he was purely divine. Which caused the counsel, which we believe was an over correction to this error. But once agains caused by a Scripture Alone form of reasoning).
Well I've been at it again, debating Protestant hardliners (who suggest that the Bible is all you need, etc.). I was looking for some classical texts to prove a few points. Which is very time consuming, some are as hard to come by as hens teeth. After an hour here and there, I finally got what I was looking for...
Sola Scriptura in the early Church
http://www.cin.org/users/jgallegos/sola_her.htm
And here's some quotes to illustrate why, a "Bible Alone" theology is dangerous.
"If you produce from the divine scriptures something that we all share, we shall have to listen. But those words which are not found in the scriptures are under no circumstances accepted by us, especially since the Lord warns us, saying, In vain they worship me, teaching human commandments and precepts (Mt 15:9)"Debate with Maximinus,1
(addai note, he rejected the doctrine of Jesus' divinity, as well as the Holy Spirit's divinity, as well as the doctrine of the Trinity, all because they were not found "explicetly in the scriptures", and thus concluded they were "the doctrines of men").
Pelagius expresses himself as follows: "What we read, therefore, let us believe; and what we do not read, let us deem it wicked to add; and let it suffice to have said this of all cases." Nature and Grace,46[39]
(Addai note, taught humans were saved by their own works apart from God's grace)
"He[Eutyches] said that he was ready to receive the decrees of the holy fathers assembled in the Councils of Nicea and Ephesus, and promises to subscribe to their definitions. But if in their declarations anything by chance should be found either unsound or false, he says that he will neither reject or approve of it: but search the scripture alone as being more solid than all the decrees of the fathers."Council of Chalcedon, Act 1
(Addai note, this guy was the reason why Chalcedon happened, which ultimately split my Church from the Catholics and Byzantines. He basically said, Christ's divinity swallowed up his humanity, so their was little or no humanity to Christ, he was purely divine. Which caused the counsel, which we believe was an over correction to this error. But once agains caused by a Scripture Alone form of reasoning).
posted by Addai | 4:10 PM
3 Comments:
This is good, P! Thanks for digging it up!
It's about time you showed up! I was starting to feel lonely...
:)
LOL... always reading, seldom commenting.
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