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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 30/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 30/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 30) If the Bible is as clear as Martin Luther claimed, why was he the first one to interpret…
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Magisterium More Sufficient than Scripture? (Part 6)
[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 6) 2 Peter 1:19-20 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 29/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 29/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 29) If the early Church believed in sola Scriptura, why do the creeds of the early Church always say…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 28/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 28/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 28) If Jesus intended for Christianity to be exclusively a “religion of the book,” why did He wait 1400…
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Augustine: Scripture Can Thoroughly Equip the Man of God – Response to Taylor Marshall
Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Augustine believed that Scripture itself is able to thoroughly equip a man to the point where Scripture itself would no longer be necessary for that man, except to teach less mature Christians. Taylor…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 27/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 27/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 27) If sola Scriptura is so solid and biblically based, why has there never been a full treatise written…
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The Recent Squirm of Mr. Marshall (by Pastor King)
(Post by Pastor David T. King) Mr. Marshall’s having suddenly “bumped into a zinger” from the language of Augustine in De doctrina Christiana (Book I, 39, 34) indicates to us his own unfamiliarity with this ancient African theologian, especially in terms of the development of Augustine’s mature convictions regarding the necessity of Holy Scripture. A.…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 26/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 26/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 26) How could the Apostle Thomas establish the church in India that survives to this day (and is now…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 25/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 25/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 25) If Christianity is a “book religion,” how did it flourish during the first 1500 years of Church history…
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Which Doctrine is Right?
A friend recently asked me how one goes about deciding whether a doctrine is correct or not. There are at least four answers to this question and an important caveat. First, as my friend was already doing, one asks one’s brethren for assistance. Scripture says: Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but…