Then if you do not see , open your eyes.
This forum has bitter and angry disputes on all the issues I mention, all Protestant affairs, and indeed the same issues have been responsible for congregations fracturing with monotonous regularity. You cannot simultaneously hold that the Eucharist is both real presence in flesh , spirit or just a symbol, and you cannot belong to a congregation that holds the opposite view to yours, because the other commits a profanity. Nor can you believe in both OSAS and at the other extreme believe that you are not saved until judgement, and how you live your life as a Christian will depend which views you mix and match from a VERY long list of issues! It is precisely because the evangelists have such shallow theology, that they fudge all these issues nor had good answers that I had to move on.
Then check out the history of the bible and see that it did not drop out of the sky. The first Christians were not bible Christians as you understand it because the New Testament did not exist yet, the faith was passed on by paradosis, tradition, meaning a " handing down" which is why Paul says " hold true to tradition taught to you by word of mouth and letter" , notice he does not say
Gospels, they did not exist at that time in common circulation. And it is also why the bible says " the pillar and foundation of truth is the church" , not the bible. So if you look in scripture to see where it says " to be true it must be in the bible" and you will look in vain, it is not there. Sola scriptura is an impossible doctrine in historic and logical terms, and the bible nowhere says it.
In short , open your eyes and study the shaky theological ground you walk on, don't worry about pointing fingers at others
This forum has bitter and angry disputes on all the issues I mention, all Protestant affairs, and indeed the same issues have been responsible for congregations fracturing with monotonous regularity. You cannot simultaneously hold that the Eucharist is both real presence in flesh , spirit or just a symbol, and you cannot belong to a congregation that holds the opposite view to yours, because the other commits a profanity. Nor can you believe in both OSAS and at the other extreme believe that you are not saved until judgement, and how you live your life as a Christian will depend which views you mix and match from a VERY long list of issues! It is precisely because the evangelists have such shallow theology, that they fudge all these issues nor had good answers that I had to move on.
Then check out the history of the bible and see that it did not drop out of the sky. The first Christians were not bible Christians as you understand it because the New Testament did not exist yet, the faith was passed on by paradosis, tradition, meaning a " handing down" which is why Paul says " hold true to tradition taught to you by word of mouth and letter" , notice he does not say
Gospels, they did not exist at that time in common circulation. And it is also why the bible says " the pillar and foundation of truth is the church" , not the bible. So if you look in scripture to see where it says " to be true it must be in the bible" and you will look in vain, it is not there. Sola scriptura is an impossible doctrine in historic and logical terms, and the bible nowhere says it.
In short , open your eyes and study the shaky theological ground you walk on, don't worry about pointing fingers at others