This coming from a guy who has added to God’s Word.
Pardon?
The canon of the books in the Bible was compiled from extant books within the first three centuries of Christianity. The Catholic Church decided which books were in there, adn which were not.
For 1500 years, the seven deuterocanonical books were part of sacred scripture. It was then that Martin Luther removed them.
This is a simple historical fact. The earliest Bibles have these texts in them. The first Church was the Catholic Church and there are no other contenders for that.
Given the fact that the seven deuterocanonical books were accepted by the Jews of Jesus’ time and only rejected after His death, and were part of the canon of scripture for 1500 years, I fail to see how the Catholic Church can possibly have added to Scripture! These books always were scripture, and always will be.
The Church did not write and compile the Bible. The Apostles wrote the New Testament.
And the Apostles were Catholic. They were members of the true Church founded by Jesus Christ and to various Churches of which St. Paul wrote his letters. Saint Paul was Catholic - he worked with St. Peter the first Pope, head of the Apostles and Bishop of Rome.
It is the Catholic church who protested the reformation because they didn’t want to be held accountable and brought back to the basics.
We protested the reformation because it was a direct afront to what Jesus Christ taught - “I pray that they may all be one.”
If it doesn’t line up with Scripture I will say it is non-Scriptural.
The doctrine of Purgatory is scriptural - but you have rejected whole sections of scripture.
You should stop complaining about what I’d say and focus on posting something that is Scriptural. The right and authority? Then how come I am commanded to search the Scriptures to see whether what I am being told is true? Can you answer that?
Of course I can - being commanded to compare what you are taught with Scripture does not mean that you are allowed to interpret Scripture against Church teaching. Consider 1 Tim 3:15 - interpret
that.
How come I am commanded to study the Word and to rightly divide it?
Study, not interpret. You are not allowed to make up your own dogmas.
Maybe you should obey Scripture instead of fighting against someone who is simply stating the truth.
Maybe you should take a long hard look at the fact that you are saying that every Christian for 1500 years is wrong, and that your modern interpretations are right.
Don’t you think Jesus and the Holy Spirit would have had this so-called Truth of yours appear long before then? Why let 1500 years of Christianity wallow in what you call falsehood?
And if you suggest that there was a small, select group of Christians who didn’t adhere to Rome and were the true remnant and that is what you are, rather than an offshoot of Luther’s heresy, I’ll just laugh. There is no historical evidence for that whatsoever, but I have heard people say it.
I think, alas, that you are never going to accept the truth - because you are poisoned against the faith by the modern, Protestant trend of selfishness. You will not submit to the authority of anything - you have to define your own truth.
Your opening post was combatative - you ask us to “prove it”. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows that proving anything is impossible - you disprove the null. It is a matter of proving within certain preconceptions. Other posters asked you - and I have asked you - to provide intra-Biblical evidence for the doctrine of sola scriptura. You have yet to do so, despite claiming it is there.
