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Responding to Patrick Madrid's Claims about Athanasius and Sola Scriptura
Patrick Madrid in “Envoy for Christ” accuses us of selective patristic quotation. He writes: Sometimes Protestant apologists try to bolster their case for sola Scriptura by using highly selective quotes from Church Fathers such as Athanasius, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, Augustine, and Basil Caesarea. … These quotes, isolated from the rest of what the…
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Patrick's Pejoratives vs. Rhology's Writing
Patrick Madrid tweets: “Yet another example of the misguided, myopic #Protestant bluster about #SolaScriptura & #sects. Wow. http://t.co/tkoX1PMw #blind #clueless “ His link takes you to this comment by the redoubtable Rhology. Responding to this: The fact that there are thousands is enough to show sola Scriptura’s fruits: the individual as ultimate interpretive authority of…
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Blueprint for Reliability Following the Lord's Example
Gennadius (died about A.D. 496) on James of Nisibis (aka “the Wise”) (died after A.D. 350): “He composed also a Chronicle of little interest indeed to the Greeks, but of great reliability in that it is constructed only on the authority of the Divine Scriptures.” (Gennadius, Supplement to Jerome’s Illustrious Men, Chapter 1) Gennadius (died…