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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 2/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 2/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 2) Other than the specific command to John to pen the Revelation, where did Jesus tell His apostles to…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 1/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 1/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 1) Where did Jesus give instructions that the Christian faith should be based exclusively on a book? Simple Answer(s):…
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Magisterium More Sufficient than Scripture? (Part 2)
[Cont’d from previous section] Is the Roman Catholic Magisterium More Sufficient than Sacred Scripture?Bryan Cross answered on the subject of the ability of the Scripture to interpret Scripture sufficiently, from Scripture, reason, and tradition. (Part 2) The fact that obscure Scriptures are obscure and “need” (in some sense) clarification does not imply that the clear…
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Aquinas: Scriptures Define Limit on Acceptable Teachings of Apostolic Successors
Thomas Aquinas believed that (at least in certain circumstances) the universal church could not err. If we define the universal church as the faithful and we refer specifically to those doctrines that are essential to the faith, it follows of logical and even definitional necessity that the universal church cannot err. Thus, even a sola…
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Is Sola Scriptura a Protestant Concoction?
Dr. Greg Bahnsen’s lecture by the above title is now available thanks to the transcription by Pastor David King and the editing of James Anderson (link). Thanks to monergism.com for bringing this to my attention. To God be the Glory!
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The Theological Virtues Only Known to Us Through Scripture
We’ve previously seen Aquinas talking about the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture. In the following quotation, we see Aquinas stating that the theological virtues are only known via divine revelation found in scripture (“sola divina revelatione, in sacra Scriptura”): Such like principles are called “theological virtues”: first, because their object is God, inasmuch as they…
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Aquinas on the Primacy of Scripture – a Word of Clarification
One of the key texts in the discussion of Aquinas and the primacy of Scripture is as follows: “Formale autem obiectum fidei est veritas prima secundum quod manifestatur in Scripturis sacris et doctrina Ecclesiae [quae procedit ex veritate prima]*. Unde quicumque non inhaeret, sicut infallibili et divinae regulae, doctrinae Ecclesiae, quae procedit ex veritate prima…
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Magisterium More Sufficient than Scripture? (Part 1)
Is the Roman Catholic Magisterium More Sufficient than Sacred Scripture?Bryan Cross answered on the subject of the ability of the Scripture to interpret Scripture sufficiently, from Scripture, reason, and tradition. (Part 1 – Meaning of “Scripture Interprets Scripture”) Augustine (about A.D. 354-430) commenting on Psalm 145:13: The Lord is faithful in all his words, and…
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Arianism is Consistent with Scripture?
Phoebadius (d. @ 392): Knowing, therefore, this unity of substance in the Father and in the Son, on the authority, not only of the prophets, but also of the gospels, how canst thou say that the Homoüsion is not found in scripture? Latin text: Cum ergo hanc unitatem substantiae in Patre et Filio non solum…
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Responding to Beckwith on Aquinas
Francis Beckwith has responded to my earlier post on Aquinas and the rule of faith in a way that does not meet the challenge. But it is a response that Prof. Beckwith seems to think worth noting, so I’ll provide it and a brief rebuttal: Yikes, I thought his name was “TurnitinFan,” a booster of…