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crazzeto
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Some important points here, the Gosple, and these teachings were Preached… They weren’t written down until Paul heard of erroneous teachings (or needed to advise a new Bishop) and it had to be addressed. These letters were not addressed to the whole church. More over, the whole church didn’t have access to these letters.
Second point:
Sola scriptura violates “without adding to, or diminishing from, the traditions which ye have been taught”. It diminishes from the traditions taught, by teaching that traditions passed on by word [of mouth] which Paul specifically instructs us to hold fast to are invalid. That deminishes the word of God, by denying half of it.
No, he preached them and did not write them down shortly there after in the sense you’re thinking. He didn’t write them so they could be written and everyone could read them. He wrote corrections to specific churches addressing specific problems. Only these Churches would have access to the letter for a number of years (years). Even when the letters began to be distributed there was no way of knowing which ones were valid, there were a host of forgeries floating around. In the early church the oral teaching carried the most weight, it was the only thing you could be absoultly sure of. You might have a letter claiming to be written by Paul, but you know for a fact what Paul him self told you. If there is a conflict, then certainly what Paul told you orally would trump a letter as a letter coudl be written by anyone and attributed to Paul.
Again, for Sola Scriptura to hold water, then these letters had to be written with the intention that they would very quickly be distributed to every Christian everywhere. That’s not the case, the letters to the Thessalonians, were to the Thessalonians. They were distributed, of course, because they were verified as being a true Apostolic letter. You’re not going to just keep that kind of thing to your self. But the letters were addressed to the Thessalonians, addressing them and their concerns.