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Request for Clarification from TheoJunkie
TheoJunkie wrote: “any utterance TODAY that attempts to institute a new rule of faith or practice is false prophecy on its face. For that would violate Sola Scriptura.” TheoJunkie was asking me to confirm my agreement (or was confirming his agreement with me – I don’t want to be stickler about the purpose of the…
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Tradition – What does it Mean?
If you have the chance to address those who seek to defend “tradition” from Scripture, you will find them appealing to Scriptures and fathers who say that the apostles passed some things on orally, rather than in writing. Let’s be clear on one thing: even if the “tradition” advocates were right that the was material…
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Traditionalist Caveat
If you are opposed to Sola Scriptura, supposing that tradition is necessary to provide authoritative tradition, you need to make sure you have the right authoritative tradition. While you have no doubt heard the usual anti-Sola-Scriptura argument that there are ba-zillion (it’s a technical term) Protestant denominations, possibly you are unaware that there are good…
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Timely Post on Sola Scriptura
Here’s a timely post on Sola Scriptura (link) that may be of interest those who have been following the debate (link to debate). -Turretinfan P.S. And here is some interesting commentary on said post (link). P.P.S. Linking does not necessarily imply the present author’s full approval with the content of the links. To God be…
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Atheist Opposes Sola Scriptura
An atheist has weighed in on the topic of the current debate (which could be roughly characterized as “Sufficiency of Scripture vs. Insufficiency of Scripture“).Here’s the atheist’s critique (“Scripture Only is a Myth“). I’d wager (rhetorically speaking, of course) that the atheist has some of the same misconceptions of Sola Scriptura as does my antagonist…
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‘Tis Tradition, Stop vs. Thus the Bible Says
“Orthodox” and I are having a debate that could be roughly characterized as a Sola Scriptura vs. Sola Ecclesia debate (though neither of those terms is in the resolution.) Should this sort of thing interest you, stop by and read up, here: Resolved: “It is tradition, look no further” is less workable as applied to…
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A Brief Challenge to Orthodox
Dear Orthodox, You’ve been providing a lot of comments to this blog recently, most of them in disagreement with things I’ve offered. How about we formalize the disagreement in the form of a debate? I would happy to defend the thesis: “Resolved: ‘It is tradition, look no further’ is less workable as applied to the…
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Armstrong Correctly Predicts …
“… I will hear the usual droning complaints about the length of this paper, and a bunch of hooey about my supposedly straying from the topic, as it is …” (source) (consider it commented, that’s 27 pages if printed on normal paper and adjusting font size up from 8.5 to 12, and there were plenty…
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Reformed Theology Confronted by Prophecy
As most people are aware, one of the five sola’s of the Reformation is Sola Scriptura. (Ok, maybe not most people, but lots of people.) For a number of reasons, Reformation theology – particularly Calvinist soteriology – has been adopted by a number of groups who claim to have and use various “Charismatic” gifts: such…
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Apparently You Still Can Get Excommunicated …
Although it is the first time it happened in Little Rock in 165 years, a few nuns have been excommunicated (according to the journalists it was for heresy …) (source). One of the nuns’ comments: “We are at peace and we know that for us we are doing the right thing. We pray that the…