Sola scriptura [WIKI](Latin ablative, “by scripture alone”) is the doctrine that the Bible is the only infallible or inerrant authority for Christian faith, and that it contains all knowledge necessary for salvation and holiness. Consequently, Sola Scriptura demands that no doctrine is to be admitted or confessed that is not found directly or logically within Scripture. However, Sola Scriptura is not a denial of other authorities governing Christian life and devotion. Rather, it simply demands that all other authorities are subordinate to, and are to be corrected by, the written word of God. Sola scriptura was a foundational doctrinal principle of the Protestant Reformation held by the Reformers and is a formal principle of Protestantism today
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Sola Scriptura is also a document explaining a principal. That is all well and good, as it seems to imply that I only take the docrine from between the two covers of the bible. This would be a true statement.
However the bit about recognizing “other” authorities governing Christian life and devotion is false. There is no other governing authority to teach what Christian life is and should be, and also devotion. I do not believe in that statement and so I do not believe in Sola Scriptura.
The reason why Church was instituted was explained by Christ here in Acts 1:8 But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will receive power and will tell people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Now you call me heretic which is laughable. However this is my point concerning NEW information and NEW understanding; from laymen just like me.
God says this in Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE.”
Rev 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. [4] So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it.
This implies that information was locked and sealed and no Pope or priest or prophet could define it, not even the multitude in Heaven. This was happening until the two witnesses were killed. Once they were killed, Satan was loosed, and the seals were broken. 1900 years later. Read on to see. Then we read the seals are finally broken.
Rev 5:5 But one of the elders said to me, Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Rood of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.
This is now, it just so happens to be now. The proofs are the NEW INFORMATION being ESTABLISHED by GOD through HIS WORD.
In other words NEW BIBLE INFORMATION.
1 Peter 4:17 “Judgment must begin at the house of God.”
Therefore we can know that the corporate external church known as congregations and denominations have no assurance that they are safe from the wrath of God.
Since the true believers within a congregation cannot come under Gods wrath, this warning was particularly leveled against the corporate or external body. Even as the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3 were judged and were completely removed, so any and every congregation can come under the judgment of God.
Gal 6:16 speaks of the New Testament church as the Israel of God.
Lev 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.”
Ezek 6:3,4 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys; Behold I even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. And your altars shall be desolate, and you images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Daniel 7:25 God prophesied: And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The he God is talking about is SATAN. not man. ONLY spiritual things remember. The enemy of GOD is SATAN. When Satan is being referred to in a masculine noun, it is lower cased. Satan shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall where out the Saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws… Satan is spiritual just as God is spiritual. Satan corrupts mans minds. Satan most definataly has this authority.
Daniel 8:11.,12 the Bible declares: Yea he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered.
This is referring the DEVIL magnifying himself to Christ stature, so he was cast out of Heaven. By reason of transgression, a host, that is people who believe in God and the Devil, was given to the DEVIL, to throw down the truth and pollute its meaning, and practice and prosper false doctrine unbeknown to you generations later. The CATHOLIC CHURCH or any church is not infallible to the WORD OF GOD.
Revelation 11 the Bible speaks of the two witnesses who represent the churches as they bring the Gospel to the world, such authority was given to the apostles. In Rev 11:7 we read And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit and shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
This is talking about Satan killing the two witnesses, who are symbolic of the church, and making war against them, that is the church.
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