Natural reason is able to lead us to understanding God as One and Creator. When Paul teaches that God reveals Himself in the things He has made and because f that there are no excuses for not acknowledging Him.
That's the knowledge of God. There is only one creator. God reveals Himself in a universal way to everyone. If that isn't the same God as the one you believe in.....You didn't include that teaching into your view.
When a person denies the authority of scripture (sola scriptura) our unseen Holy Father. They shoot themselves in the foot of the legion . They show they deny the commandment to call no man on earth Holy Father. One not seen is in heaven, again not a legion.
Corrupted mankind can plant the incorruptible born again seed But if God does no give his Spirit life nothing could be formed
1 Peter 1:23 Being
born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 Corinthians 3:3-6 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
God reveals himself in a non universal way .Called the narrow way of faith Understanding coming from a unseen God.
First time shown in the new testament as the Nazarene sect or denomination . The way of the Catholic. . the law of the fathers the legion they tried to prove sola scriptura was a heresy And that they were venerable the law givers .
They walked away faithless still worshiping fathers (Legion) as if they were the un seen
Holy Father in heaven . Both reformations (1st and 15th) restored the proper teaching master. . . all things written in the law and prophets . Not the Catholics book of their own law (CCC) as oral traditions of men.
Big difference between worshipping or venerating the fathers (legion 3500 patron saints ) as if they were God and worshiping the actual God
of the fathers. One is led by the father of lies the spirit of error . He was a murderer from the beginning .
The other the Holy Spirit of our father. It works in those who do get under the hearing of scripture (sola scriptura)
The reformations reformed that to the proper governments as it is written . Those who do not call men on earth heavenly fathers. They hear his understanding of faith and are empowered to do it with all their new born again spirit and heart.
Catholisicim a dark place in need of the light of the gospel .
Which teaching master is the question. Of men or of God?
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