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Category: Sola Scriptura

  • Responding to Martini’s Answers to Objections

    Gabe Martini at The Franciscan Mafia has a post up (incidentally, while I believe Mr. Martini was previously associated with the Federal Vision group, it appears that he has now switched his allegiance to Eastern Orthodoxy)(link to post). The post is designed to answer an objection to the Eastern Orthodox. Here’s the objection: The Orthodox…

  • Worst Argument Against Sola Scriptura

    There are many bad arguments against Sola Scriptura. There are many terrible arguments made to suggest that none of the early church fathers taught or practiced Sola Scriptura. But there is, in my opinion, one worst argument. That worst argument is this: 1) Reformed apologist demonstrates that early church father X taught Sola Scriptura. 2)…

  • What Gregory of Nyssa Considered Inspired

    Over at the Beggars All Reformation blog, in the comment box, I encountered a commenter who was seemingly sure that Gregory of Nyssa viewed the council of Nicaea as inspired. My own research does not confirm this claim. On the contrary, Gregory of Nyssa practically always only uses “inspired” of the Scriptures themselves or the…

  • The real Turretin on: the Spirit’s Relation to Revelation

    Viva Verbum has an interesting quotation from the real Francis Turretin, which explains the Spirit’s relation to revelation in the life of the believer: the Spirit does not give us additional personal revelation but opens our eyes to the truth of Scripture. (link) -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!

  • Veneration of Mary Debate – Thoughts on Reflection – Part 3

    This is the third part of a series of some reflections of mine on a recent debate with Mr. William Albrecht on the veneration of Mary (Part 1)(Part 2). Those posts dealt with whether “having been highly favored” is a title and whether the concept of veneration of Mary can be justified based on her…

  • John Martignoni Demonstrating Sola Ecclesia

    In this clip, I discuss an instance where John Martignoni demonstrates the error of sola ecclesia. As a caveat, I’m sure not everyone within Roman Catholicism holds to these sort of extreme views, so perhaps this discussion is limited in its value, since it does not address those that do not go as far as…

  • Augustine the Inerrantist (and Justin too)

    Nick Norelli at Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth has an interesting post on Justin Martyr and his view of inerrancy (link). I would, however, respectfully disagree that Justin’s is the strongest statement of inerrancy we see in the early church. I find similarly strong statements in other church fathers, such as in Augustine who…

  • What does "Sola Scriptura" mean?

    I enjoyed reading an article at The Neglected Word Theology and Life by Dr. W. Robert Godfrey (link) on the topic of Sola Scriptura. I got the sense from the article that it is actually an introductory chapter to a book, but the book is not identified. If Sola Scriptura is a topic that interests…

  • The real Turretin on: The Self-Authentication of Scripture

    Mark Koller at Daily Reformation, has provided a concise but meaty quotation from the real Francis Turretin on the self-authenticating property of Holy Scripture (link). Every world view has some presupposition – ours is Scripture. -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!

  • Bellisario – Authority Discussion

    Bellisario has a new post entitled, “Turetin [sic] Fan’s Crippled [sic] Minded Theology on the Apostles Part I” It’s not hard to identify his thesis: My theology is “crippled” in some way. Let’s see if he backs it up, or if this is just another case of assertion mania. Beneath an image of a black…