Cassian, I call you out on Sola Scriptura. You have gone on about it saying this and that with no Bible proof, just you say it.
that is the whole point. Sola scripturists have no scriptural basis for the principle or practice of sola scriptura. I cannot prove a negative. But if scripture is your sole source of faith and practice you are a sola scripturist. So cite a text that says individuals can interpret a text, called the Bible or scripture?
Now I want you to prove that sola scriptura is wrong.
It is NOT found in scripture. Individual men were never given the Gospel in the NT era. Individual men were not given the responsibility over a text. Individual men do not have the authority to interpret the text, but if you think they do, cite the text that gives you that authority.
Or better, prove that my POV is wrong (I do not call it sola scripture, BTW). Prove or retract, Cassian.
I have done that in every post I responded to you. OSAS does not exist in scripture as it was given in the beginning. It is a man made supposition imposed upon scripture. I also gave you the historical record of OSAS, Calvin, via Augustine and a pagan religion. How much proof do you need.
MY POV:
The Bible is the only document which is readily available to the common man, which is the Word of God.
But God's revelation was not given to individual man. It was given to His Church. It is entrusted to His Church over which Christ is Head and is enlivened by the Holy Spirit. That Gospel the entire revelation, is being guarded and preserved by the Holy Spirit through His Body. It is not being guarded through a text and surely not through individual men who were not even taught the Gospel. Even individual man within the Body do not have the authority to interpret scripture. It is how all the false teachings have originated for two millennium. It is why all man made innovations never were able to be imposed on His Gospel.
Protestants rile against the RCC, but they are your best example when man, a man, exerts his own authority over both scripture and Holy Tradition and changes it as they have done for 1000 years now. They taught all Protestants how to assert individual control over a text and develop their own little personal sectarian theologies.
For all your claims of trusting Christ, you have a long way to go. You have put your trust in your fallible ability to interpret a text minus the Tradition from whence it came and have never been taught the Gospel as the Church has taught it from the beginning.
Now to disprove that I challenge you to bring forth an prove that any other document (readily available to the common man) is God's Word.
Christ Himself is available to every man if they believe in the Christ as He has revealed Himself to man through His Body.
It is not the purpose of the text for man to develop His own Christ, His own perceived means of salvation from a text. You have basically reduced the text as a source of ideas, and idealogy. You believe in a self proclaimed idealogy.
You have pretty much developed a good moral, external code of salvation that can be achieved by believing a set of self established guidelines.
It is patently absurd that the Body of Christ, the Church, in its early days existed on a text. Ignatius was appointed bishop at Antioch by Peter in 60AD. He is martyred in 110 AD. He was a bishop for 50 years and there never was a complete Bible as you know it and not even all Church had all the letters. Not all Churches even had all the letters, they had other documents, even in the 4th century when the Bible was Canonized. Why would the Church need a text when It had the entire Gospel oraly given and handed down. That meaning is still handed down and it has been preserved in Christ's Body, His Church which is the ground and pillar of Truth, never individual men, nor even the text itself. The text cannot be separated from its full content, God's Revelation to man, and the context, the Church Christ's Body.
The Bible is available but if you don't know what it means and you attempt to do it yourself, well, look around you. 500 years of utter chaos, confusion and division. It is an unfortuate twist of history that the west came under the domiance of the RCC and its errors. But the Protestant milieu just compounded the problem.
If you cannot, kindly retract.
I don't need to retract. Christ is not going to retract either.
