This is a funny sort of a thread

The reason I see for sola scriptura.. or scripture only.. is because this is how TRUTH is.. Christianity claims to be true.. objective truth.. not subjective.
So the bible gives an objective reference point that is the Word of God. It is the truth.

If there is no real objective standard.. then Christianity is no different than the likes of Hinduism or whatever.

It is true that there are many denominations.. but this doesn't make the Bible at fault.. just men's interpretations of it.

The bible is truth in and of itself.. when you compare scripture with scripture.. all doctrines can be seen clearly.


The other thing is.. trusting the bible.. IS trusting the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not work differently than He does in the bible. Find a passage that applies to a situation you are in now.. apply the teaching in it to your life and the Holy Spirit will work in that with ya!


But the reason this is a funny thread: Protestants and Catholics aren't all of the churches in Christianity..there is a line of independent christian churches that has been around before both of them that believed in scripture only..

They have the nick name of ana-baptists... they were not a branch off or brake off from the Catholic church.. like the Protestant churches were.
They helped the Protestant churches at times.. but were never part of them. They were never part of the Catholic church, because they were around before them.. recorded in their own records.

Course, most of their records have been destroyed.. but their teaching is what counts.. and you can find the same teaching amongst alot of these independent churches coming right from New Testament times to today.

So the funny thing about this thread? It's like a dialogue between Catholics and Protestants that is completely ignorant to the fact that there might be a line of churches that is scripture only that can link themselves to NT times.

Anyway, you want sola scriptura? Forget Protestant and Catholic founding Fathers and just look at scripture.. compare scripture with scripture.. and that is the truth about our faith.