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Steve Hays vs. Peter Sean Bradley on Oral Tradition
My good friend Steve Hays has posted an interesting item in response to Peter Sean Bradley. The post emphasizes the interesting point that John records the fact that one of Jesus’ sayings was either misreported or misinterpreted in the apostolic era among Jesus’ own disciples. The specific passage is John 21:22-23Jesus saith unto him, “If…
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Sola Scriptura vs. Sola Ecclesia at Domain for Truth
EvangelZ at The Domain For Truth has a four-part paper on Sola Scriptura vs. Sola Ecclesia, that can be found here: Part 1 – Introduction. Part 2 – Definition of Sola Ecclesia. Part 3 – Definition of Sola Scriptura. Part 4 -Arguments from Scripture and Answers to Some Objections. – TurretinFan To God be the…
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Perspicuity Perspicuously Presented
Ephesians 3:3-4 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) It’s not the whole doctrine of perspicuity, but it does at a minimum suggest the formal sufficiency of Scripture. On top…
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"Your Interpretation of" – a Common Objection Debunked
The Called to Communion clique is fond of replacing “Scripture” with “your interpretation of Scripture.” This has the rhetorical effect of making the appeal to Scripture sound less authoritative. After all, “that’s just your interpretation” is idiomatic of something that has little value. It’s part of the culture of relativism, in which your interpretation is…
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Maximus the Roman Catholic Confessor?
My friend James Swan posted a short article describing Maximus the Confessor’s view of Rome’s authority. Matthew Bellisario at the Catholic Champion has now posted a response. The material provided by my friend, Mr. Swan, was as follows: 7. They said to him, “And what will you do if the Romans unite with the Byzantines?…
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Questions Steve Ray Thinks "Bible Chrisians" Can’t Answer – Answered
Steve Ray seems to think that there are questions that we Bible Christians cannot answer. (Link to his post) Not only can we answer them, we have answered them. For the most part, they are a bunch of loaded questions that are actually not that hard to unload and answer. The answers I provided below…
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Carl Beckwith on Sola Scriptura and the Arian Controversy
Carl Beckwith in Hilary of Poitiers on the Trinity: From De Fide to De Trinitate (New York and Oxford, 2009) provides a number of interesting comments in relation to Hilary of Poiters and the Scripture, particular in the context of the Arian controversy. One of the first passages of this book that caught my eye…
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Primacy of the Word or the Eucharist?
[I]t is the primacy of God which we must, first and foremost, restore in our world and our lives, because it is this primacy which allows us to rediscover the truth of who we are; and it is in knowing and following the will of God that we discover our own good. (Benedict XVI, according…
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Baptista Mantuanus on Scripture’s Self-Attesting Authority
Baptista Mantuanus (17 April 1447 – 20 March 1516), lib. de Patientia, cap. 32, 33 (as found in the Works of John Own, Volume 18, in A Vindication of Animadversions on Fiat Lux, Chapter VII). ‘Saepenumero,’ saith he, ‘mecum cogitavi, unde tam suadibilis esset ista Scriptura, ut tam potenter influat in animos auditorum; unde tantum…
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Nicaea Was Local Council, Arianism Not Settled Controversy, Implies Shea
I admit that I’ve never had a high view of Mark Shea’s scholarship, yet a mixture of surprise and amusement washed over me as I took in Shea’s breathtakingly ignorant response to a reader’s question regarding Augustine and Sola Scriptura. A reader had pointed out to Shea that Augustine, in responding to the Arian heretic…